The Five Elements Cookbook: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine with Recipes for Everyday Healing

The Five Elements Cookbook provides over 50 nourishing recipes to eat for healing every day, featuring ingredients like American ginseng, turmeric, reishi, and more. Each recipe incorporates a food-as-medicine ingredient, with consideration for seasonality, digestion, and body constitution, and specific concerns like menstrual pains, nausea, anxiety, blood circulation, respiratory health, and more.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Harvest Publications

A captivating and user-friendly guide to culinary exploration with the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), featuring over 50 delectable recipes crafted by TCM chef and registered dietitian Zoey Xinyi Gong.

Chef and registered dietitian Zoey Xinyi Gong presents a truly unique, graceful, and genuine approach to food therapy, offering an accessible guide to cooking with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a millennia-old practice for holistic well-being.

Named after a fundamental principle of what balance and optimal health entail, The Five Elements Cookbook serves as an enchanting introduction to the foundational concepts of TCM, accompanied by a visual guide to the most commonly utilized medicinal ingredients, including American ginseng, turmeric, reishi, and more. These ingredients are showcased with their healing properties and seamlessly integrated into your cooking, whether enjoyed in a soothing warm tea, a rejuvenating bone broth, a delightful smoothie, or your favorite dinner.

Each of the over 50 delectable recipes ingeniously incorporates a "food-as-medicine" ingredient, taking into account seasonal variations, digestion, and individual body constitutions, as well as specific concerns such as menstrual pains, nausea, anxiety, blood circulation, respiratory health, and more. For individuals with dietary restrictions, each recipe also includes a key for vegan, nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free options, along with the TCM energetics and applications. The recipes encompass a wide range of meals throughout the day, including beverages and desserts:

Sesame Goji Granola
Pumpkin and Lotus Seed Hummus with Crudité
Reishi Mushroom Miso Soup
Steamed Whole Fish with Herbal Soy Sauce
Warming Lamb Noodle Soup
Saffron Mulled Wine

With stunning photographs adorning every page, this soothing and practical guide is an ideal choice for those seeking to nourish their bodies, promote healing, and experience pure joy through their culinary endeavors.

Weight: 864g
Dimension: 184 x 237 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780358622192