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The Wholefood Kitchen
Mayura Mohta
Straits Times Press | 211 pages
In case your New Year
resolution to eat more
healthily is already
flagging – and I’ll
admit I was tucking
into some devilishly
yummy chilli salami
as I leafed through
it – this cookbook is a
timely reminder of how
we could and perhaps
should be eating.
It’s not for everyone,
though, especially not
for the mass of new
low-carb converts; that said, a number of the lighter salads,
soups and dips would be fine.
A wholefood, explains the author, is a food that is
considered healthy because it has grown naturally, has not
been processed, and contains no artificial ingredients. (Not
salami, then.) And a wholefood kitchen, it must follow, is one
that as far as possible uses only wholefood ingredients.
Once you get past the obligatory preface promoting
Singapore’s Health Promotion Board, and the author’s wide-
ranging introduction to diet, nutrition, staple foods, cooking
methods and so on, you’re on to the recipes themselves: a
good selection of thirst quenchers, salads, soups and stews,
snacks, grain-based main courses, desserts and more, all
illustrated with beautiful colour photographs.
I’d give the Moroccan quinoa salad and the chipotle salad
a go, and the pumpkin barley and Asian buckwheat risottos
look well worth a try. Tofu-based crème brûlée caught my
fancy, too, and who’d say no to mini-espresso cupcakes?
Not I.
Vanessa Harvey
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The Potato Princess
Written by Wicked Gilly; illustrated by Paula Pang
wickedgilly.com
$10 from Tango Mango, Tanglin Mall
If you’re sick and
tired of pink and
princesses – or
even if you’d
just like your
little girl to look
at alternative
options for self-
exp res s i on –
here’s another
children’s picture book with a message from the
subversive Wicked Gilly.
The prince is holding a fancy dress ball, and all the
girls are going as princesses and fairies. All except the
independently minded Sally, who wants to be different:
“I’ll be a potato, Sally decided,
My dress will be lumpy, brown and lopsided.
I’ll be a potato! There’ll only be one,
I’d rather be different, I think it’s more fun.”
Wicked Gilly’s previous publications include:
I Hate
Peas
(now in its second edition),
Nelly Catches a Cold
,
Chocolate Bunny
and
Frank the Frog
. All proceeds go to
the Tabitha Foundation, a charity that helps to uplift the
poorest of the poor in Cambodia out of poverty.
Verne Maree
Indian expat Mayura Mohta
is not only a health writer,
food writer and “recipe
developer”, but also a
qua l i f i ed f i t nes s and
wellness coach and the
founder of social enterprise
Healthfriend (healthfriend.
com.sg).
JUST FOR KIDS