Emily Maxson. Photo: Belén Fleming
After a Crohn’s disease diagnosis and years of unsuccessful treatments, Emily Maxson landed upon a solution that brought her back to the kitchen: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. The Medina cookbook author developed recipes in keeping with the grain-free, low-lactose and low-sugar diet that restored her gut health and ignited her healing journey.
Her latest cookbook, Real Food. Every Day., picks up where Maxson’s Emily’s Fresh Kitchen left off with 134 easy-to-follow recipes made with whole food with an emphasis on fiber. “Increasing fiber in your diet helps foster a healthy gut microbiome, and that was one thing I worked on with healing from Crohn’s disease,” Maxson says.
To this end, most of the main dishes in Real Food. Every Day. include two recipes to make them either animal- or plant-based. Examples include Greek Lamb or White Bean Quinoa Meatballs, Pork or Jackfruit Carnitas and Chicken or Mushroom Lettuce Wraps.
Real Food. Every Day. is set to release October 21 and can be found at Five Swans in Wayzata, GRAY Home + Lifestyle in Excelsior, and online at emilysfreshkitchen.com or amazon.com.
