Super Roots: Cooking with Healing Spices to Boost Your Mood

In Super Roots, Tanita de Ruijt showcases over 60 exciting ways to use herbs, spices, roots and barks in the most delicious ways for optimum health. Taking inspiration from the East – predominantly Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, China – Tanita aims to reinvigorate those traditional recipes that have sustained people healthily for centuries.

With chapters exploring the notion of balancing taste and flavor, food as therapy and meals to combat those times when you are feeling tired, bloated, sick or hungover Super Roots offers a new, functional yet delicious approach to food that will leave you feeling restored, satisfied and happy – no diets, just nourishing, flavor-led recipes using everyday ingredients. From the detoxifying Ginger Mapo Tofu to the tangy notes of the Turmeric Flu Busting Broth, these recipes are guaranteed to refresh your mood and brighten your day.

Tanita's simple approach to health and wellbeing is predominantly inspired by her eclectic upbringing, and travels throughout Southeast Asia. Tanita became enamoured with the volcanic islands of Indonesia a few years ago, and quickly became hooked on turmeric tonic. Soon after returning, she began making the golden liquid, from her flat in London. By 25, she founded her own tonics business, known as the Jamu Kitchen.