More than a cookbook, this book by Laura LaBrie is a spiritual guide with a focus on food! The book begins with defining the Sixth Sense and a few cleanings and activating practices you can incorporate into your daily life. The next section lists food the authors recommend for optimal third-eye functionality. Then come the recipes. 

Although these include some traditional Mexican dishes, with Maya cuisine marked with a pyramid, the cookbook is designed for the non-Mexican palette in general. You won’t find goat stew (consomé), pozole (hominy soup), and menudo (tripe soup), or the more exotic chapulines (grasshoppers), chinicuiles (maguey worms) and huitlacoche (corn smut). Instead, you’ll find beet and pecan hummus, cabbage cleansing soup, and spiced apples with cream. 

The photographs are mouth-watering, and the recipes are easy to follow. I have been enjoying working my way through the traditional Maya recipes that are quite a bit different from the central Mexican Purépecha-influenced diet common where I live in Mexico. 

So, if you have a hankering for some third-eye nourishing foods, don’t waste any more time in picking up this delightful Maya-inspired cookbook.