Welcome to the readers and users of this Barefoot Guide. We invite you on a journey through the farms, gardens, local markets and kitchens of Africa to learn about the unique, delicious and healthy foods and cultures that belong to this beautiful continent of ours. Many of you may be feeling uncertain, even lost, about how to eat healthily. There are many theories and interests behind these theories, some genuine but many focused more on their profit than your health. We wrote this Guide with your health and well-being as our only purpose. We are not selling anything... this Barefoot Guide is free and offered with love and care for every person, every family and every community in Africa.“Nutrition” is not good enough... Grandmothers are!We too are citizens concerned about what we eat. But we’re frustrated with the profession of nutrition and nutritionists. Instead of helping us be clearer, we are taken into a fog of academic jargon. Eating healthily is not that complicated. You don’t have to be a nutritionist to understand how to eat healthily. New scientific research is simply telling us what many of our grandmothers, and their grandmothers, have always known. Read this Guide to learn from their wisdom in the stories.