The Yogic Kitchen

Description

The Yogic Kitchen offers a quiet argument for a food-as-medicine approach to health, based on the ancient Indian practice of Ayurveda. Yoga is good for your body and so too is its sister philosophy, Ayurveda. Tried and tested over thousands of years, this ancient Indian food-as-medicine practice can heal and restore you, bringing balance to your system. In The Yogic Kitchen, Ayurvedic health coach, skilled cook and passionate yoga teacher Jody Vassallo offers you 100 recipes as well as a holistic guide to Ayurveda that shows you how to identify which of the three main constitutions (or doshas) you are and how you can support your dosha with the right food medicine. Packed full of diagnostic charts and gentle advice on the Ayurvedic way, The Yogic Kitchen translates Jody's passion for good food and good health (as well as stylish living) into recipes that do all the work for you. This book illustrates the power of the right ingredients to bring balance to the digestive system and the mind as well as joy to the tastebuds.

Jody Vassallo is a food writer, stylist, yoga teacher and Ayurvedic health coach. She was a consultant to Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food in Australia, and had a regular special diets column on his website. Jody's career began working with Donna Hay, writing recipes, styling and testing, and was Food Director at Murdoch Books in the late nineties. Since then she has published seven of Marie Claire's best-selling cookbooks, and won a slew of awards for 18 additional books she authored and styled. From 2004 she authored 15 regional food books for Hachette Livre which were published internationally and more awards followed. Jody lives in Central Tilba and works as a stylist, cook and recipe writer for a range of clients, including River Cottage Australia.