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| Question: | I entertain a lot as part of my job. Can you translate the ideas of optimum nutrition into haute cuisine? |
| Answer: | Absolutely. Healthy, whole, fresh organic foods, which are the ingredients of optimum nutrition, are inherently great-tasting ingredients. The trouble is that many people don' t know what to do with beans, lentils, seeds, herbs and other cornerstones of optimum nutrition. Also, most celebrity chefs pay lip service to healthy eating, using high-sugar and high fat sauces to add flavour, and frying far too much.
For cream and the like, I often substitute coconut milk or coconut cream, tahini (sesame seed spread), tamari with crushed ginger and lemon juice or cashew cream, and I tend to steam rather than fry food.
I asked several hundred nutritionists trained at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition to give me their best tasting, most interesting recipes and then got the great cookery writer and gastronomic expert Judy Ridgway to try them out and pick the best recipes for taste, look and health. The result was the Optimum Nutrition Cookbook (Piatkus, 2000). I strongly recommend you use this for your healthy haute cuisine. |
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