Blending Science with Spices: Tasty Recipes & Nutrition Tips for Healthy Living takes you on a spectacular culinary journey through Western India providing the reader with an array of nutritious, gluten free and light Gujarati-style dishes. The book opens with contemporary lifestyles and chronic disease and discusses the role of antioxidants and phytonutrients to promote health. It then leads into organizing the kitchen to make it an “Instant Take Out Place for healthy foods”, followed by “Planning for success”, from Simple to elaborate foods to Variations and taking care of leftovers. About half the recipes are the most nutritious part of your plate…the vegetables. Gita has woven simple recipes with adaptations and variations with evidence-based rationale for the science of nutrition to substantiate each and every recipe. This practical vegetarian cookbook with an index, nutrient analysis, menus and much more will transform your kitchen into an instant take-out place for healthy food.
