The Kosmic Kitchen Cookbook: Everyday Herbalism and Recipes for Radical Wellness

by Sarah Kate Benjamin and Summer Ashley Singletary

With over 75 nourishing recipes and herbal remedies, this cookbook and seasonal guide to wellness pays homage to the ancient wisdom of the elements.

Turn your kitchen into a healing sanctuary! This cookbook will help you identify your unique constitution based on the five elements—earth, water, fire, wind, and ether. Use that insight to design an everyday wellness practice with nourishing meals, healing herbs, and self-care rituals. Tapping into these elements is at the heart of all traditional medicines—Ayurveda, Western Herbalism, and Chinese Medicine—and it is the key to discovering your most vibrant self.     

Discover the power of herbalism and the elements to feel balanced and well from season-to-season. With simple spices and healing herbs, you‘ll feel confident creating remedies that support mental clarity, enhanced digestion, a relaxed nervous system, and promote an overall radiance. From cleansing tonics like Roasted Dandelion Chai or Hibiscus Punch with Schisandra Salt to rejuvenating classics like Kitchari with Golden Ghee or Tumeric Congee, you'll find transformative recipes and uses for adaptogenic herbs to restore and find balance every day.

• ISBN10: 161180714X
• ISBN13: 9781611807141
• Publish Date: 4 August 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781611807141

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Kosmic Kitchen Cookbook is a well curated recipe collection and tutorial guide to food and wellness by Sarah Benjamin and Summer Singletary. Due out 4th Aug 2020 from Roost Books, it's 288 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

The book is quite well written, layman accessible, and it has an easy to follow logical format. The sections are split thematically: First, an introduction to the classical elements (earth, air, fire, water, ether) and how they relate to life processes, there's a bit about Ayurveda also. The second section contains info on tools and ingredients as well as processes in the kitchen and daily life. The third section contains the recipes and tutorials arranged around the seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter). The recipes are mostly made with easy to source ingredients (some specialist/herbalist ingredients may be slightly more difficult to source).

Ingredients are listed in a bullet sidebar with only American standard measures given. Info and tips about the ingredients or the recipes themselves are given in sidebars below the preparation information. Yields are given in the header info.

The authors have also included a hefty resource section with glossary, bibliography, and reading lists which include information for further learning/education, as well as a cross-referenced index. The photography throughout is clear, colorful, and illustrative. The text is printed in an easy to read font and graphically the whole is cohesive and appealing.

I feel most readers will find useful recipes and information here, but it will be of special interest to readers who are interested in alternative healing, Ayurveda, or classical elemental healing (earth, air, fire, water, etc). Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes