Wholehearted Food

In Wholehearted Food, Brenda Fawdon, the legendary chef who founded the first licensed organic restaurant in Australia, Mondo Organics, and its immensely popular cooking school, shares her lifelong love of real food to produce this fabulous collection of wholefood recipes.

‘When I am conducting cooking classes at Mondo, people often ask: What are wholefoods? Basically, wholefoods are nutrient-dense foods that are unprocessed and unrefined. They don’t have added food dyes, artificial ingredients or fillers. Wholefoods include organic fruit and vegetables, legumes, grains, seeds, ethical meat, organic dairy, organic eggs and sustainable fish.’

Brenda is passionate about using organic, unrefined and sustainable produce to create easy-to-cook and nourishing meals that promote vitality, good health and wellbeing without losing out on flavour.

‘Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a piece of cake, it’s just that I prefer cakes made with nourishing ingredients. We all have a choice, so make your choices count. If you choose food as close to its natural state as possible, grown with integrity, you will be eating your way to better health.’

Wholehearted Food includes recipes for nutritious breakfasts, health-promoting fresh juices, delicious meals, and scrumptious desserts using easily attainable ingredients, offering alternatives for people who want their meals dairy- and wheat-free. The mouth-watering desserts and lunch-box snacks have been created using only unprocessed sugars. Chapters are devoted to sustainable seafood and ethical meat and poultry.

‘Why eat this way? Why not eat this way? It’s not about what is in your food, it’s about what isn’t in it – and in support of a wholehearted approach to food, I’ll take mine without the pesticides, genetic modification, artificial additives, colourants, preservatives, fumigants, chemicals, toxins, bleach, high fructose corn syrup and flavour enhancers.’

This is the ultimate cookbook for anyone looking to explore a healthier – and tastier – way of life. It will inspire you to clean out the processed foods from your cupboards and discover delicious, wholehearted food.