Thinking & Eating: Recipes to nourish and inspire

Product Description

Examining the psychological impact of the way we eat food, this thought-provoking book explores nutrition for the mind and body.
It is a daily undertaking―a morning shot of coffee, an absentminded sandwich at your desk, a hastily assembled dinner with the remnants from the fridge … With its everyday ubiquity we can make the mistake of assuming that food is of little importance, or simply fuel to see us through the day. But what is its real impact on our emotional lives, and how can we better nourish ourselves?
What we eat and how we eat it has a significant impact on our psychological well-being. In recent times, our society has been eager to recruit food to the project of physical health, but we’ve not always paid so much attention to how cooking and eating can assist us with our emotional health.
With over 150 recipes, Thinking & Eating shows us how ingredients and dishes can be supporters of certain ideas, emotions, and states of mind that best help us confront the challenges of existence. In each recipe we discover the ways in which food can store, memorialize, and transmit the most important ideas of our lives.

Review

“In an age where our Instagram feeds are inundated with food porn and every week brings a new diet or trend, trust The School of Life to challenge us to think differently about how and what we eat…” – Elle Decoration Magazine

“This is a unique kind of recipe book – an inspired marriage of psychology and cooking, and a guide to just the sort of foods to put on our plates in order to grow a little calmer and more relaxed in ourselves, kinder to others and readier to face everyday challenges.” – Mail +(UK)

From the Inside Flap

We know well enough that the right sort of foods can help us to be healthy. But, with equal importance, the right foods are also capable of altering our moods: they can be crucial sources of inspiration, playfulness, generosity, and optimism.
This is a unique kind of recipe book about what we should eat in order to feel like our best selves—an inspired marriage of psychology and cooking, and a guide to just the sort of foods to put on our plates in order to grow a little calmer and more relaxed in ourselves, kinder to others, and readier to face everyday challenges.
Written by a team of philosophers, chefs and psychologists from the School of Life, the book teaches us how to administer sugar and salt, carbohydrates and proteins, spices and marinades in order to regulate and soothe our spirits—and give our minds a much-needed uplift.
The book suggests the very best recipes drawn from around the world that we might prepare at any time of day, from stews to soups, curries to cakes. The approach turns cooking into an ideally therapeutic activity—by which we can recover faith in ourselves and hope in our lives.

From the Back Cover

We know well enough that the right sort of foods can help us to be healthy. But, with equal importance, the right foods are also capable of altering our moods: they can be crucial sources of inspiration, playfulness, generosity, and optimism.
This is a unique kind of recipe book about what we should eat in order to feel like our best selves―an inspired marriage of psychology and cooking, and a guide to just the sort of foods to put on our plates in order to grow a little calmer and more relaxed in ourselves, kinder to others, and readier to face everyday challenges.
Written by a team of philosophers, chefs and psychologists from the School of Life, the book teaches us how to administer sugar and salt, carbohydrates and proteins, spices and marinades in order to regulate and soothe our spirits―and give our minds a much-needed uplift.
The book suggests the very best recipes drawn from around the world that we might prepare at any time of day, from stews to soups, curries to cakes. The approach turns cooking into an ideally therapeutic activity―by which we can recover faith in ourselves and hope in our lives.

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