The Beauty Chef. / Carla Oates, 2017. Hardy Grant Books, Sydney. 345 pages. Illustrations in color. Index.
“According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, root veggies are very balancing to your Chi (vital energy).”
So says Carla Oates, founder, owner of The Beauty Chef, who’s written a second book on eating the best quality foods for health.
One reason I noticed the book is the illustrations, which are artistically photographed ingredients and menu items.
Also, mentioned in The Chalkboard Magazine is a James Beard nomination for The Beauty Chef! Congratulations, Carla Oates!
The Beauty Chef has the appearance of a simple, though really high-quality, cookbook. Actually, The Beauty Chef is a nutritional guide and cookbook in one volume, accenting the type and quality of nutrition available in a variety of whole foods for breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner and desserts, plus. Included ares many meat and fish dishes, with eggs in breakfast and lunch recipes and in almost every baked good in the 150 recipes presented—so vegetarians beware. Bon appetit.
As I mention in Seen & Noted, The Beauty Chef offers lots of recipes and ideas for sauces, sprinkles–whole spice combinations that add sparkle and digestives to dishes. There’s a whole chapter on ferments. The benefits of a collection of recipes for omnivores are all these extras. You get lots of them, like the recipe for Green Minestrone.
Introducing the recipe, Carla says, “Green vegetables boost glutathione, oxygenate the blood and support the liver.” And for Rainbow Chard, tomato and Goat’s Cheese Tart, she says the greens “are full of skin-clarifying riboflavin and zinc, as well as biotin, essential for healthy skin, hair, and nails.” Of the vegetable fennel she says, “The Romans revered fennel for its medicinal properties, and it’s still used today as a digestive aid, cleanser and detoxifier, rich in Vitamins A and C and skin-boosting Vitamin K and Manganese.” So you can pick up more ideas here on which foods offer nutrients for your outer beauty.
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