A Culinary Journey

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This distinctive cookbook takes you on an intimate journey into the world of vegetarian cuisine conscious living and the preparation of unique recipes that include food sensitivity alternatives. Joan's explorations in multi-cultural cuisines are revealed throughout this fascinating voyage that covers almost four decades. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The many engaging stories of cooking with herbs and potent spices include a large international collection of well-tested innovative recipes. Peppered with holistic living suggestions these recipes provide an emphasis on healing-inspired cuisine. The guidelines and baking methods and are designed to carefully balance vitamins minerals and food absorption. Details about the many ingredients and their nutritional information also include their lore and history giving the reader a special understanding of the essence of each recipe. Healthy alternatives to dairy egg nuts soy yeast and wheat provide valuable resources for people with food allergies. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this fully revised and expanded color edition some of the recipes have been reworked and many new recipes have been added. There are also two new chapters: The Blue Zone Diet and Cooking for Kids as well as additional indexes to help locate the numerous recipes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I have been searching for a cookbook that not only caters to a wide variety of diets/lifestyles (CHECK!)</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>but was also easy to follow (CHECK!) and had flawless recipes (CHECK!). </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> To top it off the cookbook itself is actually an amazing story.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Ramani Leah CSA Casting Director</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p>Joan Greenblatt has been a magazine columnist graphic designer and certified flower essence practitioner. A  life-long vegetarian and gourmet cook Joan's international travels have influenced her approach to food and cooking techniques. Joan along with her husband Matthew are co-founders of the Inner Direction Foundation. For eight years she contributed to the cuisine column in the award-winning <em>Inner Directions Journal</em> where she shared many lively stories an understanding of spices and herbs and brought a meditative and mindful flare to the art of cooking.</p>