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<div><strong>Cookbook Dream: Bring joy to people with food allergies, restrictions, and energy limitations while helping an important cause!</strong>
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<div>Hi, my name is Rachel
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<div>I was a specialty food shop owner when my life was upended by illness. Like many disabled people, my savings were quickly drained by medical bills and just getting by. Not only did I have to sell my shop, give up my livelihood, and my passion, I also suddenly couldn’t tolerate any of the foods I’d built a career and life around. I feared I’d never be able to enjoy a meal with others again, one of life’s great pleasures.
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<div>It turns out my fear is shared by people with a variety of chronic conditions, food allergies or sensitivities, and energy limitations for preparing meals. Figuring out what we can now eat can be a painful, long learning curve. Surprisingly, people with very different conditions often end up eliminating the same foods to help them feel better. When you’re really sick, incremental improvements are huge.
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<div>As a homebound person with no stamina, I had to ﬁgure out unfussy dishes within these new food parameters with short ingredient lists so they’d be easy to prepare. The recipes I was ﬁnding were lackluster, so I started to create my own recipes using the skills I’d honed in my food career. I never imagined the process of creating foundational recipes would rekindle my passion for food. Yet with every coconut milk swap and citrus squeeze, a dream began to emerge of a cookbook of my recipes that could bring joy back to all sorts of people living with chronic illness, food allergies, and energy limitations.
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<div><strong>100% of the cookbook royalties are being donated to </strong><a href="https://www.omf.ngo/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Open Medicine Foundation</strong></a><strong>. </strong>
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<div><em> Pictured: chocolate mini-bundt cake + chocolate ganache drizzle</em>
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<div><em> (gluten, grain, dairy and refined sugar-free)</em>
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<div>Food could still be one of life’s great pleasures, a delicious and full sensory experience with everyday dishes that celebrate what’s in them rather than what’s left out. I could share these dishes with people I love —with no apologies or explanations. As I began to tell others of my dream, people with all sorts of conditions—multiple sclerosis, diabetes, celiac disease, mast cell activation, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions as well as ME/CFS and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome that I have—experience so many of the same losses around food. They were excited about my cookbook for not only weeknight meals but also for holidays and family events -- gatherings that can be so difﬁcult for us or the people cooking for us. I had to make this cookbook dream a reality for all of them too.
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<div>I don’t claim this to be a cure for my conditions or any others -- though a lot of doctors and nutritionists are fans, and people with many conditions report feeling better eating this way. I’m still mostly homebound. My husband does all of the grocery shopping and helps me with prep—for which I’m so grateful. Many people without support have that extra hurdle for cooking, so my recipes have them in mind. I’m also very thankful that as limited as I am, I’m still considered among the more moderately ill; some of the most severely afﬂicted by ME/CFS develop sensitivities to foods so profound that they need feeding tubes to survive. It is for these fellow patients that I’m giving all of the proﬁts from the ﬁrst year of this cookbook to the Open Medicine Foundation, one of the best hopes we have for ﬁnding causes, treatments, and a cure for this terrible disease.
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<div>Dr. Ron Davis is one of the researchers OMF helps fund – he’s working tirelessly to help save his <a href="https://people.com/health/scientist-ron-davis-son-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">severely ill son Whitney</a>.
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<div>My book, <em>IN GOOD HEALTH</em>, will be released in 2025 in both the US and UK (with metric conversions for our friends abroad).
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<div><strong>Please support my dream of a cookbook for so many people living with food limitations, and to help people like Whitney and those with ME/CFS along the way.</strong>
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<div><strong>Why does the photography cost so much?</strong>
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<div>This is actually a modest budget for eighty-ﬁve professional food photos. The costs include Studio rental for 9 days, a Prop stylist who sources the linens, background surfaces, dishware, serveware and flatware needed for each recipe, the Photographer who handles the lighting set-up, photography of each dish and the author, then all the post-production editing. Photography assistant who helps the photographer with lighting, breaking down scenes, and running errands, Food stylist who shops for all of the ingredients, preps in advance, cooks and styles each recipe, and Food styling assistant who shops, preps, cooks, cleans, washes dishes, handles mishaps, and helps maintain the schedule.
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<div><strong>* Every recipe is free of</strong> these commonly triggering foods: gluten, grains and pseudo-grains, dairy, soy, nightshades (eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes), legumes, squash, spinach, pork, shellﬁsh, reﬁned sugar, artiﬁcial sweeteners, cashews and peanuts.
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<div><a href="https://rachelriggs.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Newsletter for cookbook updates</strong></a> <strong> </strong>
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<div><a href="https://www.rachriggs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Visit the website</strong></a><strong> </strong>
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<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/food.phenom/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Follow along on Instagram</strong></a>
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<div><strong>THANK YOU for your support!</strong>
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<div><strong>Rachel</strong>
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