ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To Tim: You have Michelin-star taste buds and a love for my Sephardic home cooking. What more could I want? We all know the recipes in this book really belong to you. Someday, I’ll help you write your own.

To the readers of my first book who wrote to me with stories of your success: Thank you. It’s because of you that I found the motivation to write another one.

To MB: How many diet books have you helped usher into the world now? Count me among the grateful authors.

And to Hadim, who coached me through those long hot summer days in NYC during my first intermittent fast, and opened my eyes to the possibility of a lifetime practice.