The Healthy Hedonist

How would you like to prepare and savor a delicious meal that's also nourishing and healthful? In The Healthy Hedonist, chef, teacher, and cookbook author Myra Kornfeld offers home cooks more than two hundred mouthwatering flexitarian recipes designed to satisfy all kinds of appetites -- without leaving you feeling stuffed and guilty afterward! So, what is a flexitarian? A flexitarian is anyone interested in eating healthy, primarily vegetarian cuisine without cutting meat and fish entirely from his or her diet. The Healthy Hedonist is the ideal cookbook for people with a variety of eating habits: the recipes are readily adapted to suit vegetarians, omnivores, and everyone in between. The emphasis here is on real food: fresh, natural, and, of course, delicious ingredients are used to create unique and healthful meals. Aside from soups, appetizers, salads, chicken and fish dishes, vegetarian entrees, grains, and vegetables, there are tempting recipes for pizza, alternative burgers, and naturally sweetened desserts. You can indulge yourself and feel virtuous at the same time with delectable fare such as: Portobello Mushroom Tapenade Wilted Spinach Salad with Orange-Curry Dressing Crispy Thai Wontons Potato Salad with Caramelized Onions Roast Chicken with Maple Glaze Coconut Green Beans with Mustard Seeds Lacquered Carrots with Coriander Gazpacho Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette Red Snapper Provencale Marrakesh Minestrone with Cilantro Puree Tamarind Chickpeas Asparagus, Leek, and Barley Risotto Barbeque Spice -- Rubbed Tofu Seared Sesame-Crusted Tuna Zucchini Latkes Salmon Medallions with Lime-Mustard Teriyaki Citrus Compote Supreme Roasted Peaches with Caramel Sauce Chocolate Lovers' Brownies Pomegranate-Pear Cornmeal Tart Throughout the book are plenty of helpful suggestions for substituting ingredients to suit your taste or dietary preference and for cooking for large groups or smaller gatherings, along with preparation tips and menu ideas. In addition, easy-to-follow illustrations guide you toward creating superb meals sure to appeal to every palate. For any and all food lovers, The Healthy Hedonist is the healthy, scrumptious way to enjoy sensational feasts every day.

If "getting healthy" has as much appeal as wearing too-tight shoes and "eating well" brings to mind a dreary life of wheat germ & skim milk...then kick off your shoes and get ready to run barefoot through this incredible garden of earthly delights. If you want to look good, feel great and have fun doing it, you're ready to be a Healthy Hedonist. Witty and wise, The Healthy Hedonist shows you how to have more fun with fewer regrets, more energy with less guilt, loads of healthy pleasures with none of the pain. When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was more fun. A media relations specialist in the health care industry, activist Janet Bridgers has seen and heard it all. Rejecting rigid health regimens in favor of get-healthy attitudes you can use, her mission is to show others how becoming more healthy need not be another demand in an insanely busy world. It can be wonderfully indulgent! Book jacket.

From the author of "The Healthy Hedonist" and "The Voluptuous Vegan" comes a festive book of lavish menus for a year of multicultural celebrations, all flexitarian enough to delight a wide variety of appetites.

The Healthy Hedonist will introduce you to a new and innovative world of cocktail making, using fresh and exciting ingredients that will leave you with less of a hangover and more of a healthkick. This book is packed with nutritious twists on well known classics such as Kombucha Pimms Punch, Kale, Pine And Mint Daiquiri, G & Tea Heaven, Blueberry And Grape Sangria, Watermelon And Mint Mojito and Pomegranate Cosmo, as well as health boosting cocktails like Green Goddess Smoothie and Vitamin C Flu Buster, along with playful treats of Beetroot Sherbet, Apple Cider-Tini and Kale Cooler. Nicole also includes tips on how to make cocktails for big numbers and what to serve them with, so stylish entertaining is stress-free. These quirky and creative cocktails will transform the way you drink (and entertain), making sugary sweet, nutrient-free cocktails a thing of the past.

For those battling autoimmune disease or thyroid conditions—or just seeking healthy life balance—the voice behind the popular blog Feed Me Phoebe shares her yearlong investigation of what truly made her well. After she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in her early twenties, Phoebe Lapine felt overwhelmed by her doctor’s strict protocols and confused when they directly conflicted with information on the bestseller list. After experiencing mixed results and a life of deprivation that seemed unsustainable at best, she adopted 12 of her own wellness directives—including eliminating sugar, switching to all-natural beauty products, and getting in touch with her spiritual side—to find out which lifestyle changes truly impacted her health for the better. The Wellness Project is the insightful and hilarious result of that year of exploration—part memoir and part health and wellness primer (complete with 20 healthy recipes), it’s a must-read not just for those suffering from autoimmune disease, but for anyone looking for simple ways to improve their health without sacrificing life’s pleasures.

The Healthy Hedonist will introduce you to a new and innovative world of cocktail making, using fresh and exciting ingredients that will leave you with less of a hangover and more of a healthkick. This book is packed with nutritious twists on well known classics such as Kombucha Pimms Punch, Kale, Pine And Mint Daiquiri, G & Tea Heaven, Blueberry And Grape Sangria, Watermelon And Mint Mojito and Pomegranate Cosmo, as well as health boosting cocktails like Green Goddess Smoothie and Vitamin C Flu Buster, along with playful treats of Beetroot Sherbet, Apple Cider-Tini and Kale Cooler. Nicole also includes tips on how to make cocktails for big numbers and what to serve them with, so stylish entertaining is stress-free. These quirky and creative cocktails will transform the way you drink (and entertain), making sugary sweet, nutrient-free cocktails a thing of the past.

The pleasure of psychic harmony in the Republic -- Restorative pleasure and the neutral state of health in the Philebus -- Plato's anti-hedonistic process argument -- Cicero's De finibus and Epicurean pleasure -- Epicurean pleasures of bodily and mental health -- Pleasurable restorations of health in Epicurean hedonism -- Epicureans on taste, sex, and other non-restorative pleasures -- Health and hedonism in Plato and Epicurus.

If you’re one of the 25 to 45 million Americans living with IBS, finding an accurate diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately good health can feel like an impossible mystery. SIBO Made Simple brings you answers. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is a common cause of unwanted bloating, abdominal pain, weight fluctuations, and GI distress. In this guide for achieving long-term healing, health advocate, chef, and SIBO sufferer Phoebe Lapine covers everything you need to know about SIBO and how to thrive in spite of it. Lapine answers all your questions, from what SIBO is (and what it isn’t) to related conditions (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Celiac disease, and more) to practical strategies for on-going prevention. With expert medical advice from dozens of top SIBO practitioners, SIBO Made Simple provides resources for all phases of treatment, offering a clear culinary road map that can be customized to fit a large variety of gut-healing diets, such as the Bi-Phasic Diet, GAPS, SCD, SIBO Specific Food Guide, and more. With 90 delicious, easy, low FODMAP recipes that make a notoriously tough diet doable and delicious, SIBO Made Simple is a one-of-a-kind toolkit for learning about your condition and tailoring your diet toward healing. Every recipe adds anti-inflammatory ammunition to your diet, while offering suggestions for how to add problematic ingredients back in as you diversify your plate. Getting healthy and feeling great doesn't have to be punitive. SIBO Made Simple offers a clear path forward, from someone who's been there.