The taste of healthy - Samantha Barbero, Simona Volo

This is a truly special recipe book, because the vegan choice combines a search for the best that nature offers us during the cycle of the seasons .

Carnivores? For charity! Vegetarian is already good, but vegan is much better . We often tend to fix our judgments on the ethicality of a diet or lifestyle (ours and that of others), but we lose sight of the reason that pushes people to give up certain foods: respect and love for nature.

So, eating more (or only) vegetables is obviously very good for our health and the environment, but with very little effort we can transform ours into a truly ecological choice and bring even tastier dishes to the table. Just follow the rhythms of nature and let yourself be guided in choosing food by the vegetables and fruit that grow naturally in every season.

Today's man has lost all connection with nature and all synchrony with its rhythms.

Just go to a supermarket to find tomatoes and courgettes, which perhaps come from the other hemisphere, and ready meals that we no longer have the time or desire to prepare ourselves, even in the middle of winter. Yet summer tomatoes have a completely different taste and so it is for a dish cooked with fresh, top quality ingredients.

But are we still able to grasp the difference, addicted as we are to the flavors of industrial products?

Who notices how exaggeratedly sweet the biscuits and cakes we find on the shelves are ? After all, this way of eating, in addition to altering our taste, also causes serious damage to our health.

Recovering the relationship with the ways and times of natural food production, preferring 0 km agricultural products and respecting seasonality, is possible. Indeed, perhaps we must, to rediscover the taste for health and for our well-being.

The importance of eating healthily

Seasonality

Seasonal calendar of fruit and vegetables

The organic

Sugar: product, not food

Raw food within everyone's reach

The right combinations

Children and healthy eating: a conscious choice

Tips and tricks

The recipes

Spring: Savory recipes

• Raw artichokes
• Cream of asparagus
• Chive cream cheese
• Baked chickpea falafel
• Fennel and orange salad
• Salad of sprouts and flowers
• Vietnamese rolls
• Almond mayonnaise
• Marinara-style aubergine pizzas
• Margherita-style aubergine pizzas
• Radish meatballs
• Carrot meatballs

Spring: Sweet recipes

• Coconut morsels
• Raw food tart with raw custard
• Tart with lime
• Pineapple and spinach smoothie
• Raw soft hearted cake

Summer: Savory recipes

• Marinated aubergine chips
• Buckwheat shells, courgettes and lemon
• Grilled beef hearts
• Borlotti beans with two tomatoes
• Summer salad
• Tomato and green bean salad
• Rolls with raw cheese and figs
• Pea pâté with aromatic herbs
• Roasted peppers with oregano, garlic and paprika
• Vegetable ratatouille
• Courgette spaghetti with olive sauce
• Carrot cream soup

Summer: Sweet recipes

• Baskets with raw ice cream
• Raw strawberry cheesecake
• Fruit milkshake
• All-natural ice cream
• Grapefruit ice lollies
• Cherry and pineapple popsicles
• Mini blueberry muffins
• Spelled plumcake with blackberries, raspberries and bananas

Autumn: Savory recipes

• Crispy beets
• Raw spicy burgers
• Couscous with black cabbage
• Crackers with seeds
• Broccoli and potato cream
• Basmati rice croquettes
• Wholemeal thimbles with beans
• Quinoa salad with pine nuts and onion
• Late summer tomato soup
• Lupine meatballs
• Dry tomatoes
• Spaghetti cut with lentils
• Baked pumpkin

Autumn: Sweet recipes

• Ox-eye biscuits with raw jam
• Almond and maca biscuits
• Cocoa and chicory brownie
• Anti-cancer red juice
• Truffles with raisins and almonds
• Apple and hazelnut cake
• Pumpkin pie

Winter: Savory recipes

• Steamed broccoli
• Stuffed Brussels sprouts
• Stir-fried chickpeas
• Cashew cheeses
• Sea Salad
• Polenta with lentil ragout
• Cabbage and potato meatloaf
• Wholemeal risotto with herbs
• Daikon spaghetti with walnut sauce
• White celeriac cream soup with chia seeds

Winter: Sweet recipes

• Delicious banana
• Cocoa and stevia biscuits
• Raw toast and peanut butter
• Apple pancakes
• Green juice
• Raw chocolate truffles with chilli pepper
• Raw carrot cake

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