The Healing Kitchen: Vegetarian Cooking with Higher Awareness

Learn the keys to adding the most important ingredient of all to your meals: higher awareness. Diksha McCord shows a wide variety of ways to transform your cooking into a joyful experience that will uplift you and everyone who eats your meals. You ll learn how to transform your kitchen into a sacred space, as well as increase your knowledge of vegetarian cooking and nutrition, based on the healing principles of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest holistic (whole-body) healing systems, developed thousands of years ago in India.The Healing Kitchen is a multi-cultural culinary tour through the four seasons. You ll receive expert guidance for matching your meals to each season for maximum nutrition, health, and vitality and minimum effort. The Healing Kitchen offers: . More than 200 easy recipes most are vegan (dairy-free and gluten-free) . Tips for spiritualizing your cooking . Healthy habits of eating that don t compromise taste . 8 Complete Meals for all seasons, plus special holiday meals . Healthy and delicious smoothies, drinks, and herbal teas . How to grow and use sprouts . Basic recipes for grains, legumes, vegetables, sauces, and dressings . How to make breads and gluten-free desserts . How to make gourmet, healthy pizza . A 9-day cleansing diet . Special bonus: 4 free video classes for holiday meals with recipes (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Fourth of July) This book is based on, and a companion work to, Diksha McCord s popular online video series, Vegetarian Cooking for Health and Vitality. Diksha is also the author of two other vegetarian cookbooks: Global Kitchen and Vegetarian Cooking for Starters."

For many years Diksha McCord was the head chef at The Expanding Light, Ananda s retreat center. She learned vegetarian cooking while growing up in Israel. Later she lived in Japan, where she became familiar with Japanese cuisine, and then in California, where she explored macrobiotic, vegan, and Ayurvedic cooking. Diksha is the author of two other cookbooks: Global Kitchen and Vegetarian Cooking for Starters. She created and hosts Online Vegetarian Cooking for Health and Vitality, a four-season video series. A resident since 1993 of Ananda Village, a spiritual cooperative community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California, Diksha serves as a minister and teacher at The Expanding Light, where she also directs the Ananda MeditationTM Teacher Training. In addition, she and her husband, Gyandev, lead workshops in many locations around the world. After receiving her BS in Biology from Hebrew University, she spent four years in medical research. Later she earned her BFA from Israel s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and received numerous awards for her work. Diksha also spent three years in a master s program at Kyoto Art University in Japan.＂