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Learn the keys to adding the most important ingredient of all to your meals: higher awareness. Diksha McCord shows a wide variety of ways to transform your cooking into a joyful experience that will uplift you and everyone who eats your meals. You'll learn how to transform your kitchen into a sacred space, as well as increase your knowledge of vegetarian cooking and nutrition, based on the healing principles of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest holistic (whole-body) healing systems, developed thousands of years ago in India.

The Healing Kitchen is a multi-cultural culinary tour through the four seasons. You'll receive expert guidance for matching your meals to each season for maximum nutrition, health, and vitality—and minimum effort.
The Healing Kitchen offers:
·More than 200 easy recipes—most are vegan (dairy-free and gluten-free)
·Tips for spiritualizing your cooking
·Healthy habits of eating that don't compromise taste
·8 Complete Meals for all seasons, plus special holiday meals
·Healthy and delicious smoothies, drinks, and herbal teas
·How to grow and use sprouts
·Basic recipes for grains, legumes, vegetables, sauces, and dressings
·How to make breads and gluten-free desserts
·How to make gourmet, healthy pizza
·A 9-day cleansing diet
·Special bonus: 4 free video classes for holiday meals with recipes (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Fourth of July)
This book is based on, and a companion work to, Diksha McCord's popular online video series, Vegetarian Cooking for Health and Vitality. Diksha is also the author of two other vegetarian cookbooks: Global Kitchen and Vegetarian Cooking for Starters.

Formany years Diksha McCord was the head chef at The Expanding Light, Ananda's retreat center. Shelearned vegetarian cooking while growing up in Israel. Later she lived inJapan, where she became familiar with Japanese cuisine, and then in California,where she explored macrobiotic, vegan, and Ayurvedic cooking.
Dikshais the author of two other cookbooks: Global Kitchen and VegetarianCooking for Starters. She created and hosts Online Vegetarian Cooking for Healthand Vitality,a four-season video series.
Aresident since 1993 of Ananda Village, a spiritual cooperative community in thefoothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California, Diksha servesas a minister and teacher at The Expanding Light, where she also directs theAnanda Meditation^TM Teacher Training. In addition, she and herhusband, Gyandev, lead workshops in many locations around the world.
Afterreceiving her BS in Biology from Hebrew University, she spent four years inmedical research. Later she earned her BFA from Israel's Bezalel Academy ofArts and Design, and received numerous awards for her work. Diksha also spentthree years in a master's program at Kyoto Art University in Japan.

| Acknowledgments | Diksha's Journey to Vegetarianism | Spiritual Background

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Essentials for Vegetarian Cooking

Guidelines for Successful Cooking | Useful Kitchen Utensils | A Guide to Cooking Grains | A Guide to Cooking Legumes | A Guide to Steaming Vegetables

Part 3: Meals for All Seasons

Blessing the Food | Spring Meals | Summer Meals | Fall Meals | Winter Meals

Part 4: Specials

Part 5: Basic Recipes

Part 6: Appendices

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The Healing Kitchen Vegetarian Cooking for Higher Awareness

The Healing Kitchen Vegetarian Cooking for Higher Awareness

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