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D E PA R T M E N T Mariah-Rose Marie has long loved having friends over to cook and eat together. Those friends often marvel at her kitchen ways. "I wasn't really using measuring spoons," she says. "You feel it out. You taste it as you go." These lessons came from her mom and grandmother. Marie's mom ran educational workshops out of their homes as they moved around to California, Texas, Connecticut, and Ohio. The workshops included cooking, which helped Marie feel comfortable in the kitchen at a young age. From her grandmother, she gained strong feelings about making cooking accessible: "Otherwise kids are discouraged from learning." As an adult, though, Marie turned her attention to animation, working on shows like Clone High and DC Super Hero Girls. She also dabbled in comics, where she felt she could talk about subjects that she didn't have the opportunity to explore as a FEEDING THE SOUL WITH HER NEW ILLUSTRATED COOKBOOK, STORYBOARD ARTIST MARIAH-ROSE MARIE INSPIRES HOME COOKS TO TAKE AN INTUITIVE APPROACH IN THE KITCHEN. Storyboard Artist. She'd write and draw her feelings and fun anecdotes from her day-to- day life. "People really responded to that on social media," she says. Around 2018 she started to get requests from publications, and over the past years her freelance comic work has ranged from The New Yorker to Eater.com. This online attention led indie publisher Silver Sprocket to reach out to Marie asking if she had any book ideas. She sent them a simple one-paragraph pitch for Cook Like Your Ancestors, and they loved it. Working at Titmouse, she began tackling the book on the weekends with her inspiration: her grandmother. They explored Marie's belief that there is a more honest and approachable way of cooking beyond the confines of recipes, a philosophy inked on the cover with the subtitle: An Illustrated Guide to Intuitive Cooking with Recipes from Around the World. But there was a bit of a paradox. If intuitive cooking is in fact intuitive, how do you teach it? Marie's idea was to provide—alongside recipes—friendly guidance for trusting your own instincts THIS PAGE: (BOTTOM): An early start made Marie comfortable in the kitchen at a young age. OPPOSITE PAGE: Pages from Cook Like Your Ancestors illustrate Marie's welcoming approach to cooking. F R A M E X F R A M E An Illustrated Guide to Intuitive Cooking With Recipes From Around the World 10 KEYFRAME