Essential Nourishment - Softcover

Marika Blossfeldt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615429270 ISBN 13: 9780615429274

Publisher: Delicious Nutrition, 2011

Synopsis

Visually stunning and potentially life-changing, Essential Nourishment is a cookbook and nutrition guide fusing an appreciation for the sensual pleasures of natural foods with a sensible approach to nourishment. It is your feel-good guide to living well, one delicious meal at a time, one nurturing action at a time.

The recipes inspire you to create dishes that are both mouthwatering and easy to make. These flavorful, nutrient-dense meals also give you the energy you need to lead an active life for years to come and pursue your passions with enthusiasm and delight.

Essential Nourishment helps you to:

• choose food purposefully, making food your friend and not your enemy
• understand how your moods are affected by the foods you eat
• discover how you can stabilize your blood sugar naturally by consciously eating balanced meals
• achieve weight loss -- without counting calories or dieting -- simply by eating great-tasting, nourishing foods

Essential Nourishment presents the topic of food from a holistic point of view and encourages you to harness food's nurturing potential by choosing food with awareness and intention. At the same time Essential Nourishment is a beautifully designed everyday cooking guide. Each recipe is accompanied by a sensuous photograph - taken at Polli's farm in Estonia, an exquisitely photogenic and serene environment.

Essential Nourishment shows you how to shift effortlessly toward a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle. It brings fun to your kitchen, well-being to your body, clarity to your mind and joy to your heart.

About this title

About the Author:

Marika Blossfeldt is trained in the visual and performing arts. She was both a painter in the late 1970s in Berlin and a featured soloist in the New York dance scene in the 1980s and '90s. She also conceived and choreographed multimedia dance works and toured internationally in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. On screen, she played the role of the bald bartender in the Hollywood movie Bright Lights, Big City.

While in her late thirties, she purchased an old farm in her native Estonia - a dream come true - and transformed it into an international art and wellness center called POLLI TALU ARTS CENTER. Once the restoration of the farm complex was complete, Marika began to facilitate yoga, cooking and wellness retreats during the summer months. As a budding self-taught natural foods chef, she created her own herb and vegetable gardens and harvested the wild greens and berries growing on her land. To this day, she personally oversees the quality and tastiness of all meals served to her guests.

After a decade of pampering visitors with delicious healthful food, Marika decided to formalize her culinary skills by completing a program of study with world-renowned nutrition specialists at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City.

The institute was a life-changing experience. Marika shifted her focus from making individual works of art to making life itself a work of art - by practicing a holistic lifestyle where body, mind and spirit are integrated and deeply cared for. As a holistic health coach, she now inspires other women to step into the limelight of their own lives, to make self-care a priority. Clients learn how natural foods, enjoyable physical activity, a sense of purpose, building community and creating a high-quality lifestyle will restore their vitality and boost enthusiasm for pursuing their dreams and passions.

Marika is a certified kundalini yoga teacher and a professional member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association. She studied at Kundalini Yoga East in New York, where she also received her instructional training.

The Estonian edition of Essential Nourishment, released in 2009, quickly became a best seller.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delicious Nutrition
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615429270
• ISBN 13: 9780615429274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304