Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, we traveled to Marin County to meet with professional chef and NY Times Best Selling cookbook author, Rebecca Katz, to be enlightened about the significance of natural organic ingredients that can plan a significant role in our health.
As the sun came up over the warm northern California community Katz took us on a tour of one of the very busy local farmers markets.
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, written by Katz, highlights several locally grown, organic ingredients she debuts in almost all of her healthy recipes, from blueberries, mint, kale, onions, mushrooms, to several more. These ingredients, when incorporated in meals, are shown to provide various yet significant nutrients that aid cancer patients going through chemotherapy and other therapies that produce side effects. Speaking with the Chief Executive Office of the Agricultural Institute of Marin, Andy Naja-Riese, a melanoma cancer survivor, who explained how his lifestyle moved towards a healthier direction after his diagnosis, eating organic and locally grown foods became one of his major remedies. Afterwards, we met back up with Rebecca Katz in her home kitchen to hear her thoughts about the importance of healthy eating for cancer patients, which has made her book a must have for those loved ones caring for someone on a cancer journey.
Rebecca shared with us her own frustrations while taking care of her father during his fight with cancer and how she decided she needed to find a way as a chef to help keep dad nourished and interested in eating.
The easy to follow recipes offer bold combinations of flavors as well as a nutritional base of understanding that everyone of us can benefit from as we all try to lead a life cancer free as we age.
We are excited to have Rebecca Katz and Andy Naja-Riese in our upcoming documentary, Those On The Front Lines Of Cancer, to premiere this upcoming Fall 2019.
To view Rebecca Katz’s cookbook, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, visit here: https://www.rebeccakatz.com/the-cancer-fighting-kitchen