Delicious and Natural Remedies to Boost Your Health

Tonic

Stressed? Tired? Hungover? Bloated? Sick?In Tonic, Tanita de Ruijt will have you pillaging your kitchen cupboards to make surprisingly effective &ndash; and inexpensive &ndash; remedies to cure whatever ails you. Inspired primarily by traditional medicine and wisdom from the East, these recipes have been carefully crafted to support your body&rsquo;s natural defences, and keep you feeling good on a daily basis.Recipes include the immune-boosting Turmeric Tonic, to more eclectic Love Potions, Salvation Shrubs and Make-Your-Own Probiotics.Including a helpful ailment index plus an extensive medicinal guide to everyday herbs and spices, Tonic offers all-natural, effective ways to treat basic complaints quickly, safely, and effectively at home.

Tanita de Ruijt is a Dutch native with a Spanish upbringing and British education &ndash; a third culture kid with a degree in European Studies and passion for preserving traditional food wisdom. Her simple approach to health and wellbeing is predominantly inspired by her eclectic upbringing, and travels throughout Southeast Asia. She has contributed recipes to cookbooks such as Eat Right by Nick Barnard, and 26 Grains by Alex Hely-Hutchinson. Tanita became enamoured with the volcanic islands of Indonesia a few years ago, and quickly became hooked on turmeric tonic. Soon after returning, she began making the golden liquid, from her flat in London. By 25, she founded her own tonics business, known as the Jamu Kitchen. This kitchen embodies a refreshing new attitude towards health foods, embracing ancient methods of eating. Her health-boosting tonics bring inspiration from ancient food wisdom and Asian cultures&#160;to her London customers.

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Cooking with Healing Spices to Boost Your Mood

In Super Roots, Tanita de Ruijt showcases over 60 exciting ways to use herbs, spices, roots and barks in the most delicious ways for optimum health.Taking inspiration from the East &ndash; predominantly Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, China &ndash; Tanita aims to reinvigorate those traditional recipes that have sustained people healthily for centuries.With chapters exploring the notion of balancing taste and flavour, food as therapy and meals to combat those times when you are feeling tired, bloated, sick or hungover Super Roots offers a new, functional yet delicious approach to food that will leave you feeling restored, satisfied and happy &ndash; no diets, just nourishing, flavour-led recipes using everyday ingredients.From the detoxifying Ginger Mapo Tofu to the tangy notes of the Turmeric Flu Busting Broth, these recipes are guaranteed to refresh your mood and brighten your day.

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Books by Tanita de Ruijt

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