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CHAPTER 13
The Healthiest Way of Cooking From the time that I was five years old, cooking has been my passion. I studied at some of the greatest schools in the world including La Varenne in Paris, Guiliano Bugialli’s cooking school in Florence, and Gourmet’s Oxford in England. My experience cooking as well as in food development (when I ran Health Valley Foods) inspired my determination to create recipes and preparation techniques that enhanced the health benefits of foods. I call this style the Healthiest Way of Cooking. In addition to choosing the World’s Healthiest Foods as mainstays of your Healthiest Way of Eating, it is important to cook them in ways that conserve their nutrient-richness. That’s because the difference in nutritional quality between a food (let’s say a vegetable, for example) that is cooked enough for it to have enhanced taste and texture compared to one that is overcooked is vastly different. If you want to enjoy the full benefits that the World’s Healthiest Foods offer, it’s important to cook them for minimal amounts of time in order to preserve their health-promoting compounds. That’s why you’ll notice that most of the Healthiest Way of Cooking recommendations for the vegetables in my book, The World’s Healthiest Foods: Essential Guide for the Healthiest Way of Eating (and those I featured in the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan) entail only five or so minutes. In this short period of time you can cook vegetables al dente—tender on the outside, crisp on the inside—so that they have a delightful texture and vibrant flavor while maintaining so many more nutrients than if you cooked them for longer. Following my recommendations for the best cooking method and cooking time for each of the World’s Healthiest Foods, as outlined in The World’s 131
