We don’t often cover naturalness as a cooking concept but this should be an exception. Cooking is a highly pragmatic art with plenty of science thrown for those wanting to understand what is happening to their food. In recent years we’ve seen the rise of lifestyle leaders who offer a way of living through their cooking as well as discussing how they live. Much of it is destined for the healthy and worried well. It’s one of the reasons why the ‘free from’ trend has been gaining so much ground and why naturalness in cooking has so much traction. Enter Moon Juice to move the lifestyle concept along and wet the appetite !
Coconut milk, edamame, avocado and gluten-free for example were once regarded as strangely out there but have now become mainstream with most retailers stocking some form of produce which satisfies that label of healthy eating. Enter Amanda Chantal Bacon to shake up the lifestyle cooking further, having opened one of the trendiest and hottest wellness boutiques in Los Angeles in 2011. Moon Juice is its name, and it is a purveyor of ‘dusts’ and ‘rainbow juice’ cleanses. The germ of the idea is to offer food savvy folk like us a range of ingredients and recipes which dwell on functional foods including healing drinks, sweets and snacks. That’s quite exciting because it is building on similar concepts in television promoted by Jamie Oliver for example.
To find out more about how artful ‘Moon Juice’ is, we have a cookbook sharing with us 75 recipes that dwell on herbs, adaptogens, raw foods and alkalizing ingredients. It is called Moon Juice Cookbook: Deliciously Potent Provisions To Feel Better, Look Better, Love Longer. The content feeds on or off perhaps the latest diets, not all of which are suited to everyone but have exciting appeal to those wishing to enhance their culinary skills and techniques and bring in some hutzpah. The benefits are claimed to be glowing skin, scintillating libido and improved immunity. We are first taken through the Moon Juice culture which teaches us how to fill the pantry with good things. Ingredients for wellness are then combined into labour-saving and nutritionally charged dishes. We have luxoriating recipes for Savory Tart with Cheese and Tomato Filling, Strawberry Rose Geranium Bars, Hot Sex Milk, , Pulp Brownies with Salted Caramel Sauce, Yam Julius Milk, and Chocolate Chaga Donuts.
Written by Avril Harden (Newport: Nutrition Guru. UK) for FoodWrite Ltd.
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