Synopses & Reviews
Good for the body doesn?t mean bad for the soul. From the top-rated spa, Conscious Cuisine is bold new methods fused with vibrant fresh tastes to create extraordinary food.
Chef Cary Neff's passion for purity utterly oozes from the pages. His recipes are extremely healthy--better still, they explode with bold flavor. I would recommend this innovative work to anyone who wants to eat well.
--Charlie Trotter, Chef and Owner of Charlie Trotter's Restaurant
Voted #1 spa diet/cuisine in a 2002 Cond?? Nast reader's poll
Voted #1 destination spa in a 2002 Zagat Survey Miraval Life in Balance Resort and Spa
From Chef Cary Neff
Cooking is one of the most memorable, creative, romantic and caring gestures you can make for another or for yourself. Whether it's a simple bowl of cereal for breakfast or a several-course feast to celebrate a special occasion, great food created with love and care nourishes the heart.
The goal of Conscious Cuisine is to encourage you to become more conscious and mindful of the food you eat and prepare. It is a simple act of noticing and embracing the unique flavors, textures, aromas, presentation and healthy benefits that food provides.
Conscious Cuisine provides you with recipes and techniques that will help you discover new healthful foods, cooking methods and nutritional awareness. Cooking terminology is explained to help you better understand how professional chefs adapt new recipes with ease. You too will learn to cook with confidence, creating sinfully delicious foods without the use of excessive fats and calories. It is my hope that Conscious Cuisine will unleash for you new approaches to cooking and eating every day and that it will open your senses to new possibilities.
Review
"Chef Cary Neff's passion for purity utterly oozes from the pages. His recipes are extremely healthy better still, they explode with bold flavor. I would recommend this innovative work to anyone who wants to eat well." Charlie Trotter, Chef and Owner of Charlie Trotter's Restaurant
Synopsis
Cooking is one of the most memorable, creative, romantic and caring gestures you can make for another or for yourself. Whether it's a simple bowl of cereal for breakfast or a several-course feast to celebrate a special occasion, great food created with love and care nourishes the heart.
The goal of Conscious Cuisine is to encourage you to become more conscious and mindful of the food you eat and prepare. It is a simple act of noticing and embracing the unique flavors, textures, aromas, presentation and healthy benefits that food provides.
Conscious Cuisine provides you with recipes and techniques that will help you discover new healthful foods, cooking methods and nutritional awareness. Cooking terminology is explained to help you better understand how professional chefs adapt new recipes with ease. You too will learn to cook with confidence, creating sinfully delicious foods without the use of excessive fats and calories.
Synopsis
Miraval Spa is ranked the number one spa in the country for its incredible food, thanks to world-class chef Cary Neff, who designed Miraval's Conscious Cuisine. When they find out they don't have to sacrifice flavor and choice, Miraval guests flock to Chef Neff's cooking classes and have been begging him for years to write his cookbook -- at long last, here it is!
Conscious Cuisine gives you nutritious, flavorful food that's brilliantly creative and based on classic techniques. The enticing recipes are reassuringly simple and accessible, and every recipe includes a calorie count and fat content (both amazingly low!).
Chef Neff is dedicated to showing people how to eat in a way that is low-fat and low-calorie without sacrificing flavor and choice. You'll enjoy vivid flavors, including gutsy international cuisine such as Thai, Mediterranean, American Southwestern and more.
Recipes for breakfast foods, appetizers, soups and stews, main courses and desserts allow you to eat as if you were at Miraval for every meal. Includes how to shop for the best nutritious ingredients, how to stock your kitchen and pantry, cooking methods and terminology and how to use herbs and spices the Miraval way.