HEALTH
REVIEW
Nourishing Your
Whole Self:
A Cookbook with Feelings
by Marci Izard
Nourish Yourself with this
Cookbook for Mindful Eating
“N
ourishing Your Whole Self” is
a refreshingly unique cookbook that presents opportunities to experience the way
different combinations of
food ingredients can help us feel. Food blogger and
cooking show host, Marci Izard, shares some of her
personal favorite recipes that inspir e feelings of
being: refreshed, peaceful, comforted, treated, and
indulged. These recipes include relatively simple
and easy-to-obtain ingredients, and can be made
fairly quickly, and all of them provide marvelous
alternatives to mindless fast-food eating with its
typically unfortunate feelings.
I love how Marci introduces each recipe, often
providing a hint of how a dish might nourish our
whole being. For Onion and Spinach Soup, she
writes, “Just as slicing onions can make you cry,
eating them can stir up feelings as well. It’s noth-
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