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happen. I made some bread and sugar, octopus • Coco Love Juice. All that’s needed is a
and tomato. That was my meal for the day. It’s not blender, a coconut and pinches of sea salt,
like that now for my kids. There are many more pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg.
options in the fridge.”
Marley calls oatmeal his go-to meal.
The family cookbook offers simple and
healthy ways to prepare those choices. Many “My base is oatmeal with fruits and nuts,” he said.
of the meals are vegetarian, vegan and gluten “I try to stay away from any processed food, white
free. It contains five chapters: “Rise,” “All Day,” bread, white sugar, bread in general – I try to stay
“Midday,” “Evening” and “Sweets.” Fish, fruits away from bread. Oatmeal fills that craving. It’s
and juices are staples. good carb. Good energy.”
Getting proper nutrition and rest can be difficult
“Food is a discipline and a lifestyle. Food is not a
fad," Marley said. when traveling, especially for musicians, who
keep crazy hours. Marley likes to keep things
“Health food to me now is like what Rastafarian simple on the road.
cuisine was to me as a youth. The Rastafarian “Eating a meal doesn’t have to be a big
culture comes from the Hebrew culture, so endeavor,” he said. “You can eat some raw nuts
it’s kind of like eating kosher, in a way. His and an apple, and that is a meal. I blend some
Majesty is traced to the land of Soloman protein juice, and that’s a meal, too. It’s much
and Queen of Sheba, and the dietary laws easier now than it was 20 years ago. There
that Moses and the elders had set. It’s very is much more consciousness about healthy
connected to that world.” eating, organic eating and farm to table. If I
Here’s a taste of what the cookbook offers: don’t want to do it myself, there is much more
opportunity on the road to find a place that
• Caribbean Salsa. Vegan and gluten-free, meets my standard of eating.”
it includes diced mango and pineapple
and is sprinkled with Ziggy Marley’s Hemp Marley plans to tour this summer in support of
Rules Hempseed. (In 2012, he launched a new album to be put out in early June, on the
Ziggy Marley Organics, which includes 40th anniversary of the release of his father’s
a line of GMO-free coconut oils and record Exodus.
hempseed snacks.) “We’re going to have a re-release of the original
• Jamaican Rice and Peas. The Caribbean version of the album, and then we’re going to
classic actually consists of kidney beans release my version of it, which I’m mixing right
boiled in coconut milk, along with rice and now in the studio,” Marley said.
assorted accoutrements.
• Falafel and Hummus. A vegetarian dinner “Food is a discipline and a
from the Middle East will take time to prepare lifestyle. Food is not a fad.”
and a food processor is required. Garbanzo
beans (also called chickpeas) need to be – Ziggy Marley
soaked for 48 hours.
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