A Change of Appetite
2015 James Beard Award Nominee
Follow Diana Henry on her year-long culinary journey towards lighter and healthier but no less delicious food.
What happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-, fish-, and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food of the Middle East and Far East, but also drawing on cuisines from Georgia to Scandinavia.
In her year of good eating, Diana lost weight, but this was about much more than weight loss - lead by taste, it was about discovering a healthier, fresher way of eating. From a Cambodian salad of shrimps, grapefruit, toasted coconut, and mint or North African mackerel with cumin to blood orange and cardamom sorbet, the magical dishes in this book are bursting with flavor, with goodness and with color. Peppering the recipes is Diana's inimitable writing on everything from the miracle of broth to the great carbohydrate debate. Above all, this is about opening up our palates to new possibilities. There is no austerity here, simply fabulous food that nourishes body and soul.
Author
Diana Henry is a James Beard Award winning author and beloved food writer with book sales of more than 950,000 copies worldwide. She has regular columns in The Daily Telegraph and Waitrose Weekend and her work has appeared in BBC Good Food, House & Garden, Delicious and beyond, her broadcast appearances include BBC Radio 4. Diana has won numerous awards for her journalism and books, including Cookery Journalist of the Year and Cookbook of the Year from the Guild of Food Writers; Cookery Writer of the Year and Cookery Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards; Food Book of the Year at the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards; and a James Beard award.
Diana Henry is the author of twelve books including: Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons; Roast Figs, Sugar Snow; Plenty; Salt, Sugar, Smoke; A Change of Appetite; A Bird in the Hand; Simple; How to Eat a Peach and From the Oven to the Table
Diana Henry has a strong fanbase with 126,000 followers on Instagram @dianahenryfoodReview
Yotam Ottolenghi "Plenty More" and Diana Henry's "A Change of Appetite" indicate that British cooks may have surpassed us with their inventive flavor combinations and adoption of international ingredients.―Melissa Clark, The New York Times
Her book is full of bright ideas, as well as one of the most thoughtful directions ever written by a British chef for an American audience, appended to her recipe for salmon grilled in damp newspaper with dill and cucumber sauce. "Directions to use a broadsheet newspaper are because of size, not the content of the newspaper," she writes. "USA Today is a national newspaper that is the right size.―New York Times Book Review
Our new healthy cooking bible ―Bon Appetit
Filled with stunning meals that just happen to be healthier, this cookbook will delight epicures and foodies.―Library Journal
I felt the book and I were destined to become true friends.―Zester Daily
There is a taste here for everyone. Broken down by seasons, the book offers a nice mix of food from around the world.―Publishers Weekly
A tome you can eat your way through all year long.―Houston Chronicle
If chicken is a slab of marble, Henry is Michelangelo―Entertainment Weekly