The Ritual of Taste: A simple approach to Vedic cooking

“You do not need medicine if your diet is right and it is not medicine you need when your diet is wrong Ancient Indian proverb”

Green Book, Volume 1: The Guide introduction kitchen tips: 66pp, acetate cover, wire bound 240 x 170

Red Book, Volume 2: The Recipes 130 in step by step format: 120pp, acetate cover, wire bound 240 x 170

Orange Book, Volume 3: More Vedic Recipes 105 in step by step format: 110pp, acetate cover, wire bound 240 x 170

We trust that this simple guide will encourage an interest in food preparation and cooking from ancient India. The traditional methods practised for centuries form the basis of this guide and are known as Vedic (way-dik) cooking.

We need to leave well alone the anxiety of diets and conflicting opinions about food in general. The joys of eating meals that are simple to prepare and based on sound principles will become an understanding of food guided by taste.

Do not change your diet. Instead, begin by discovering the effect of tastes that will occur within hours or days, if not immediately. The effect will be distinct, subtle and gentle. Noticing reveals available energy, felt as lightness of body, alertness and wellbeing.

Indeed, becoming intimate with these signals by way of attention may lead us to consider and discover their source.