Do you love cooking and eating great food? Do you worry about gaining weight? Do you have or suspect you have food sensitivities? Would you like to feel fabulous all the time? The good news is that there are ways of having your cake and eating it too. Basing their philosophy for health and wellbeing on their formidable combined experience in the food and natural health industries, Jan Purser and Kathy Snowball have created another cookbook with sensational healthy food suitable for all occasions, whether it's dinner for two, a family meal or entertaining the masses. And it's all gluten and dairy-free, making it suitable for people with sensitivities or allergies in those areas. Following on from the success of their award-winning The Detox Cookbook, this is a book of recipes and practical advice for living well, for people with a passion for food who also want to keep a close eye on their health.

About the Author

In the early 1980s, Kathy Snowball left a career in merchant banking to study at Leith's School of Food and Wine in London. After six years of catering and teaching, she returned to Australia and joined the Australian Women's Weekly as assistant food editor responsible for the Home Library series of cookbooks. In 1993 she moved to Australian Gourmet Traveller, was appointed food editor in 1996 and became food director of this and three other magazines in 2000. She also compiled and edited two cookbooks for Gourmet Traveller. Kathy is now a freelance food writer, working for Gourmet, Gourmet Wine, House and Garden and Cuisine magazine in New Zealand, and she teaches at her newly established cooking school, Snowball and Pemberton's Food Workshop. Jan Purser is a nutrition consultant, Touch For Health practitioner, health and lifestyle counselor, remedial therapist, iridologist and meditation teacher. She has been in practice for over five years in natural therapies and her clinic, 'Food, Body and Health', is based in Perth. Jan worked with the Australian Women's Weekly test kitchen for six years as deputy food editor. More recently, she has worked with Australian Good Taste magazine as food editor and then health and nutrition editor, and currently as their contributing health editor. Jan has authored six books.

Prizes

The Detox Cookbook (A&U 2004) has sold 9500 copies and continues to sell steadily making them best-sellers in our small market of 19 million. The Detox Cookbook has recently won the illustrated cookbook category of the Cordon d'Or - Gold Ribbon Cookbooks & Culinary Arts Awards. It was up against books illustrated by renowned US artists and photographers. People's awareness of diet and the effects of particular foods on health and wellbeing is growing: this book hits the market at just the right time. It is NOT a diet book but cooking this way will result in losing unwanted kilos because the authors promote a healthy approach to food. For people who don't want to sacrifice flavour but who want to be healthy - you don't have to have a food allergy to enjoy the benefits of this style of cooking. Also includes excellent health and wellbeing advice and tips about losing weight, managing stress and living well.