Why we love it:

From Peasant Foods to Superfoods explains the simplicity of food and removes much of the confusion and fear around healthy eating. Melissa takes traditional home recipes and transforms them into nutritionally dense super-meals. She uses culinary history to shape her book and educate her readers of food origins and why we ate particular foods and should continue to do so.

Rather than produce overwhelming recipes that need expensive and exclusive ingredients commonly associated with health and super foods, Melissa shows readers how they can use many of the everyday ingredients they have at home, and how to add to the pantry so this becomes the norm. Her recipes use many of the same base ingredients to make them easy for people to create without having to shop every time.

Melissa’s recipes are fresh, of our time and take into account modern tastes and trends such as fermentation and pickling as well as the use of pressure and slow cookers. She addresses common concerns of the clients she sees as well as the general public with regards to diet, health, lifestyle balance, time constraints, seasonality and cooking techniques.

For first time cooks this book offers simple, delicious and nutritionally balanced meals to whip up on a weeknight for the whole family. For the seasoned foodie, it provides over 100 innovative recipes that will excite and delight!