Help Me Bring This Book From the Farm to the Table to Life

Nourish and Heal From the Farm Kitchen is a healing cookbook of 118,000 words and 115 recipes

Elle Culture July 20, 2026 at 1:02 pm
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Help Me Bring This Book From the Farm to the Table to Life

Nourish and Heal From the Farm Kitchen is a healing cookbook of 118,000 words and 115 recipes that I have written from my regenerative farm in Bína, Slovakia. I am Maltese-born, and the book draws on two food cultures that I carry simultaneously: the Maltese culinary and folk medicine tradition of my childhood and the Slovak farming tradition of the farm where I now live and work with my partner, Zara.

Across 17 chapters and four seasons of the farm year, I cover fermentation, bone broth, foraging, cured and smoked meats, animal fats and raw dairy, seasonal preservation, and the medicinal properties of herbs and traditional foods. Every recipe carries a healing note explaining the nutritional and clinical evidence behind the preparation.

The book challenges the dominant narrative of industrial food by rehabilitating traditional animal fats, questioning processed food and seed oils, and making the case that the food wisdom of Malta and Central Europe is not nostalgic sentiment but evidence-based knowledge. It is dedicated to Mária, Zara’s grandmother, whose knowledge of traditional food preparation this book aims to preserve and extend.

I am targeting publication in time for the Malta Book Fair in November 2026. This is my second book, following A Practical Guide to Sustainable Living: An Introduction to Permaculture, critically reviewed by Professor John Peter Portelli.

The book is written. Every word, every recipe, every healing note is complete.
What I need now is your help to bring it to life.

Meeting the Deadline

The €5,000 I am raising will cover the professional design and typesetting of a 500 to 600 page illustrated cookbook, the printing of the first run of physical copies, and the costs of launching it at the Malta Book Fair in November 2026. Without this funding the book cannot be designed and printed to the standard it deserves, and the November launch window will be lost.

If you have ever believed that real food heals, that what your grandmother cooked was not unhealthy but essential, or that the table is one of the most important places in any life, this book is for you. Help me get it there.

Every contribution, large or small, brings this book one step closer to the table. 🌿

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