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'Cookery Book of The Year' Guild of Food Writers AwardsShortlisted for the Andre Simon AwardsNominated for The Bookseller Cookery Book Award, Sponsored by FoylesWhat happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-, fish- and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food of the Middle East and Far East, but also drawing on cuisines from Georgia to Scandinavia.Curious about what 'healthy eating' really means, and increasingly bombarded by both readers and friends for recipes that are 'good for you', Diana disocovered a lighter, fresher way of eating. From a Cambodian salad of prawns, grapefruit, toasted coconut and mint or North African mackerel with cumin to blood orange and cardamom sorbet, the magical dishes in this book are bursting with flavour, goodness and colour. Peppering the recipes is Diana's inimitable writing on everything from the miracle of broth to the great carbohydrate debate. Above all, this is about opening up our palates to new possibilities. There is no austerity here, simply fabulous food which nourishes body and soul.

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Food writer Diana Henry started to crave a diet with less meat and heavy food and more fish and grain-based dishes, drawing on cuisines from Georgia to Scandinavia. The book's recipes are full of flavour, goodness and colour, and focus on using seasonal ingredients. Diana writes on the miracle of broth to the great carbohydrate debate.

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Diana Henry is one of

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Diana Henry's passion is infectious and her recipes tantalising.There are just so many recipes I long to try out - my copy is littered with post-its.Everything Diana Henry cooks I want to eat.Can't wait to cook from it (reading this in bed this arvo).As ever, her recipes are gorgeously greed-inducing, and the feel of the book - the beauty of its photographs should be mentioned here - is calmly but gloriously uplifting.Absolutely gorgeous and so inspiring!A committed pleasure-monger, turning out really good recipes that scream to be made over and over again. - MetroThis is the cookbook we have all been waiting for. - Eat Travel Live Magazine

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Follow Diana Henry on her year-long culinary journey towards lighter and healthier but no less delicious food.

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'Cookery Book of The Year' Guild of Food Writers Awards Shortlisted for the Andre Simon AwardsNominated for The Bookseller Cookery Book Award, Sponsored by FoylesWhat happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-, fish- and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food of the Middle East and Far East, but also drawing on cuisines from Georgia to Scandinavia.Curious about what 'healthy eating' really means, and increasingly bombarded by both readers and friends for recipes that are 'good for you', Diana disocovered a lighter, fresher way of eating. From a Cambodian salad of prawns, grapefruit, toasted coconut and mint or North African mackerel with cumin to blood orange and cardamom sorbet, the magical dishes in this book are bursting with flavour, goodness and colour. Peppering the recipes is Diana's inimitable writing on everything from the miracle of broth to the great carbohydrate debate. Above all, this is about opening up our palates to new possibilities. There is no austerity here, simply fabulous food which nourishes body and soul.

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There are just so many recipes I long to try out - my copy is littered with post-its.

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Follow Diana Henry on her year-long culinary journey towards lighter and healthier but no less delicious food.

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Reflects the changed eating habits of so many today increasing the amount of vegetables and grains and minimising meat in their diet

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