About Maria
Maria Luna Garcia is a character from the Castleborn story world: a woman of Mexican heritage with Indigenous roots, written as a lifelong student of genetics, environmental restoration, biodiversity, and the balance of living systems. Her fictional path—seeking old knowledge and testing it against evidence—shapes how this page treats food: with warmth, urgency, and reverence, but never with invented certainty.
Aware of My Food connects science with soul and heritage with the plate. Think of it as a science library crossed with a kitchen garden, kept honest by a provenance evidence ledger.
What you will find here
- Mindful, intuitive eating—without diet shame.
- Food provenance and supply-chain evidence.
- Crop genetics, seeds, biodiversity, and regenerative agriculture—carefully sourced.
- Herbalism and traditional foodways, with sourcing and cultural care.
- Mesoamerican cuisine and food memory, with specificity, attribution, and review.
What you will not find here
No diet-culture vocabulary: no purity framing, no shame framing, no cure-all claims, no scoring foods as good or bad. No invented farms, growers, routes, or origin stories. No medical, nutrition, or treatment advice. No cultural authority performed for effect, and no flattening of Indigenous knowledge into aesthetic.
The method
Each journey opens with something concrete and sensory, states its evidence boundary plainly, connects it to relationship and care, and closes with one useful invitation. Claims carry one of four labels—Verified, Reported, Inferred, or Unknown—and corrections are made visibly when needed.