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From Comfort Foods to Cancer Recovery Foods
When Chef and best-selling cookbook author, Raghavan Iyer was diagnosed with cancer, he realized the healthcare system was missing nutritional guidance for diets other than those Eurocentric and Mediterranean-based. In a new project, Iyer explores what it takes to transform comfort foods form various cultures into nutritionally fortified cancer recovery foods.
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