For me, life has been a series of explorations in search of meaning, inspiration, and healing.
My adventures began on a street corner in Rome. I had fled career burnout in New York City and arrived in Italy with no luggage and no language, only my curiosity and a paper map in hand. No GPS, no Google maps, and no phone! I was waiting for an Italian signora to lead me to her palatial teaching kitchen, where I would become immersed in the joy of cooking in the evenings. In the mornings, I made art in a studio and discovered that both food and art are intensely creative, and that both are healing. I was enchanted.
Returning to New York, I became a professional chef. I found my niche in food and healing. I played with flavor, color, and texture to connect nutrition science to the plate, and pioneered an intelligent, novel, and delicious use of food in the treatment of cancer. I authored 5 cookbooks, including The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen and The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen online course.
Chock full of wisdom, and my experience and those of a coterie of America’s foremost integrative oncologists, physicians, and cancer-wellness professionals, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen includes:
More than 150 healthy, mouth-watering recipes that stimulate appetite and address treatment side-effects including fatigue, nausea, mouth and throat soreness, and low blood counts …
The ‘Cancer Fighting Tool-Kit’: Everything caregivers and friends need to keep loved ones eating during treatment …
Vital advice on putting together a culinary support team …
A ‘Culinary Pharmacy’ that reveals the peer-reviewed science behind every ingredient in the book …
Strategies for thriving during treatment, including food and lifestyle choices that help patients stay energized, and food shopping, preparation, storage, and serving tips.
The 2nd edition includes updated science around food and cancer (which has exploded in the 9 years since the first edition), more beautiful photography, more than a dozen new super-simple recipes, and improved navigation, making this one gorgeous, immensely practical, useful and MUCH needed book.
Rebecca’s warm, engaging, and informative prose helps people in treatment and their loved ones overcome their fear of cooking for someone dealing with cancer. Filled with humor, compassion, beautiful photography, and a wealth of useful information, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen brings the healing power of delicious nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave nourishment.
Rebecca Katz has produced an invaluable resource.
Instead of telling patients to ‘just eat a balanced diet,’
we can now show them how to control disease
and optimize health with delicious, nourishing food
from The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen.
I highly recommend this book.
— Andrew Weil, MD
Rebecca Katz brilliantly combines delicious recipes
with nutritious ingredients to help promote
and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I have shared The Cancer -Fighting Kitchen
with my patients and their loved ones,
and also with colleagues, family, and friends.
Anyone concerned about their own health and well-being,
and that of their loved ones,
should buy this book.
— Vered Sterns, MD,
Professor of Oncology
and Co-Director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program
at Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen is an incredibly rich and satisfying resource.
It is a must for people living with and beyond cancer.
— Donald I. Abrams, MD, Chief,
Hematology-Oncology,
San Francisco General Hospital
Professor, Department of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Integrative Oncology,
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
About The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen Course
I’m THRILLED to share my online course, now in its 6th year, designed to provide you with everything you need to know to nourish yourself during cancer treatment – and beyond!
Based on the 2nd edition of my award-winning Cancer-Fighting Kitchen book, the course includes the latest nutrition science as well as essentials gleaned during my 15+ years of experience cooking for people with cancer, starting with my own father.
Colorful videos SHOW you how to prep and cook delicious recipes for every stage of treatment and appetite, from minimal to hearty. Menu plans and recipes with shopping and prep guides support you in cooking with ease — EVEN if you haven’t cooked very much before. My flavor-fixing secrets will make your tastebuds happy! And Dr. Donald Abrams, Integrative Oncologist, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine provides pearls of wisdom about how the right foods to fight cancer.
Register today and use discount code MAR25 to receive a $25 discount.
Special features we think you’ll love:
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You work at your own pace. The entire course will be delivered at one time, so you can move directly to the module you need when you need it.
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You have lifetime access to the course and receive updates when new materials are added.
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You gain membership to our online community of people, through active forums in each module, where my expert team will answer your questions.
It’s as if I am right there with you in your kitchen, taking you by the hand, and guiding you every step of the way as you learn to use the power of food for your own healing journey.
This work is a labor of love. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to create this comprehensive cancer-fighting course to inspire healing for you and your loved ones! And I am so happy to share that for every course sold, we will donate one to a cancer clinic or support group that works with underserved communities.
A nationally recognized educator and author, Rebecca Katz has worked for over 15 years with cancer patients, health professionals, clinics, and hospital-centered programs, teaching the importance of food and flavor in cancer healing and prevention.
Rebecca has a Masters of Science degree in Health and Nutrition Education, and received her culinary training from New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. She is the founder of the Healing Kitchens Institute and has been a visiting chef and nutrition educator at the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California for more than a decade.
Rebecca Katz is an accomplished chef, educator, and author who has worked with the country’s top wellness leaders. She is the author of the award-winning cookbook, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing Big Flavor Recipes for Cancer and Treatment and Beyond as well as One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and Their Friends. Her most recent titles are The Longevity Kitchen: Satisfying Big-Flavor Recipes Featuring the 16 Top Age-busting Power Foods (2013), The Healthy Mind Cookbook (2015) and Clean Soups: Simple, Nourishing Recipes for Health and Vitality (September 6, 2016).
She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and two loyal kitchen dogs, Lola and Blossom. She can most often be found making soup.
Please note: Rebecca Katz is not a doctor and does not provide medical advice. She holds a Master of Science in Nutrition and is a certified chef and the author of five science-based and flavorful cookbooks. She is delighted to answer your questions about food and cooking.
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