Beautiful Food

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"Jody really knows her stuff...this is an incredibly beautiful book full of recipes from the heart." - Jamie Oliver Healthy recipes to nourish you, inside and out. 130 delicious recipes to make nutrition easy. In Beautiful Food health food guru Jody Vassallo offers a quiet argument for the power of genuinely nutritious food to heal, nourish and restore, inside and out. If you are struggling to find lovely recipes that are low GI, gluten-free and low allergen, or you would just like to focus more on eating well, here are 130 easy but very evolved recipes that will fuel your body with optimum nutrition in dishes everyone will want to eat. Underpinned by Ayurvedic principles of eating to support your body type, Beautiful Food gently encourages you to take your own path to health, and reveals the power of the right ingredients to bring balance to the digestive system and joy to the taste buds. With recipes for every season, body type and time of day - from Spicy sunshine eggs for breakfast, Pumpkin, fennel and black quinoa soup for lunch, to Charred chicken with chimichurri sauce followed by a slice of Black sesame chocolate cake for dinner - you will find you can eat well effortlessly, without sacrificing flavour or treats. Gorgeously designed with images by renowned food and lifestyle photographer Jared Fowler, Beautiful Food will show you how food can be your medicine, bringing you an overall sense of wellbeing and vitality with some truly delicious dishes.

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.