APOTHECARY CHEF

More than 80 recipes featuring beneficial herbs and plants for a long and healthy life created by a host of celebrated chefs.

With more than 80 dishes from 30 award-winning chefs, The Apothecary Chef is a recipe book with a difference.

Every recipe includes several 'hero' ingredients that you can grow, forage or buy, and a directory of 50 edible plants and herbs to grow and cook with is also included.

Chapters include Good for the Gut, Everyday Joy, A Sense of Calm, Immunity Boosters, Longevity & Resilience and Breath & Balance, with recipes ranging from rosemary calendula polenta cakes and allium & wild mushroom galette to mint pannacotta and persimmon pudding.

Contributing chefs include April Bloomfield (NYC), Sean Sherman (James Beard award winner, The Sioux Chef), David Lebovitz, Nyesha Arrington, Nancy Silverton, Chris Cosentino, Allan Altschul of The Newt, Honey & Co, Pierre Koffmann, Peter Gordon, Olia Hercules, Sarah Johnson, Ben Shewry, Itamar Srulovich & Sarit Packer of Honey & Co., and Lee Wescott.

NATASHA MACALLER spent 30 years as a professional ballerina performing with New York's prestigious Joffrey Ballet and Boston Ballet, completing her exhilarating career in the Broadway and Los Angeles productions of The Phantom of The Opera. Turning her artistic spirit to a second creative career in the kitchen and garden, Natasha channels the same passion, diligence and precision that made her a successful dancer into the art of cooking. She divides her time between Los Angeles, London and New Zealand, where she teaches cookery courses, writes and is often found in the garden between the rhubarb and the tomatoes. She's also a highly sought-after restaurant consultant.

The Apothecary Chef, her third cookbook, is a homage to her curiosity of growing a Noah's ark of fruit, vegetables and herbs in her New Zealand garden and using these and other beneficial grown, foraged or purchased ingredients to blend and create healthful, flavorful and inspired recipes.

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