Marika Blossfeldt

Marika Blossfeldt is an award-winning cookbook author. Her first book, ESSENTIAL NOURISHMENT: Recipes from My Estonian Farm, released in 2011, won third prize at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris and a gold medal from the Living Now Book Awards in the United States. It was also a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award in 2012.

Marika's second book, COOKING WITH MARIKA: Clean Cuisine from an Estonian Farm, was released on May 8, 2020. It won the gold medal from the Living Now Book Awards in the category "Cookbooks - Ethnic, Holiday, Specialty".

Marika was born in Tallinn, Estonia, immigrated to West Germany before the age of two and grew up near Düsseldorf. She earned an MFA in painting from the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and was a featured soloist in the New York downtown dance scene in the 1980s and 1990s. She created many multi-media dance works and toured internationally in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Australia.

In 1995, she purchased a farm in her native Estonia and transformed it into an international arts and wellness center (www.pollitalu.wordpress.com). Marika now spends summers there, conducting yoga, wellness and cooking retreats. As a passionate whole foods cook, she grows her own vegetables and herbs and makes sure all meals served to her guests are top quality and taste divine. She has appeared on several Estonian TV cooking shows and was invited to do a cooking demo as VIP chef at the Paris Cookbook Fair in 2012.

Reviews of her artistic and culinary skills have appeared in The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living and The Village Voice as well as in European editions of health, lifestyle and cooking magazines. She regularly writes articles for Estonian publications and gives talks in both Europe and the US on healthful eating and leading a vibrant, mindful and harmonious life.

Marika is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is qualified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners as a Certified Holistic Health Coach. She helps women in midlife turn back the clock and renew their youthfulness, vibrancy and passion. She loves to teach her clients how to choose food with confidence, knowledge and intuition and to prepare healthful, delicious meals. Marika also offers transformational online programs, such as Spring Cleanses, Eat Clean Summer Challenges and Autumn Detoxes (www.MarikaB.com).