Nadia Lim's Good Food Cook Book

Simple, healthy and delicious food for busy people from dietitian Nadia Lim. Nadia is passionate about delicious, healthy food that is simple and easy to prepare. This is the second cookbook from the Otago University qualified dietitian, who has developed a strong reputation for creating big-flavour and healthy recipes for the home cook.Nadia presents this new collection of carefully thought-out meals with exciting breakfast, lunch, dinner, desert and baking sections. Delicious recipes, presented beautifully with stunning photography from Tam West, this is one of 2013's must-have cookbooks. Every recipe includes Nadia's trademark nutritional analysis, and many Gluten-free, Dairy-free and Vegetarian recipe options. Nadia has gained a strong following through her published work in the likes of the NZ Herald, Good Health magazine, her high-profile company ‘My Food Bag’ and various charitable organisations including Diabetes NZ, the Heart Foundation and the Hospice.*Author Biography*Nadia Lim, author of Nadia's Kitchen and Nadia Lim's Good Food Cookbook, and winner of Masterchef NZ in 2011, trained as a dietician and nutritionist at the University of Otago. Born in Auckland, she lived in Malaysia for seven years with her family. Her mother is a Kiwi and her father is Malaysian Chinese. Growing up in two different cultures helped broaden Nadia's food knowledge and palate greatly. As a teenager she discovered her natural flair for cooking and knew she wanted a career in food. She worked for Auckland District Health Board in diabetes for a few years, before MasterChef and a new career in food began. Since winning MasterChef she has worked for Regal Salmon and in the kitchen of Simon Gault's restaurant, Euro. Her major project has been the weekly home-delivery meal service My Food Bag, which she set up with 2012 Businesswoman of the Year Cecilia Robinson and prominent business leader Theresa GattungNadia provides nutritious seasonal recipes with all the required quality, free-range ingredients. She writes regularly for the New Zealand Herald's Bite magazine, and for Food Magazine. Kia Ora, New Zealand magazine praised the recipes in Nadia's Kitchen as ‘inspired, balanced meals with an international perspective and with influences from both the Kiwi and Malaysian side of her family tree’. Lauraine Jacobs, writing in The New Zealand Listener, liked its ‘fresh-looking and healthy food’, noting that it was ‘simple and affordable and should appeal to the younger generation of cooks’. The Christchurch Star found it ‘awesome’ and ‘an absolute delight’ with its ‘dynamic photos’ by Kieran Scott, while the Sunday Star Times described it as ‘bright, interesting and inviting’. Urban Life wrote: ‘Packed with a wealth of easy to make, healthy meals, which at the right time of the year are also budget-friendly, this is recipe book to covet.’ The ‘mix of contemporary flavours and old-fashioned ingredients’ help make it ‘truly a collection of delicious-sounding, eye-catching, complete meals’.*Author Biography*Nadia Lim, author of Nadia's Kitchen and Nadia Lim's Good Food Cookbook, and winner of Masterchef NZ in 2011, trained as a dietician and nutritionist at the University of Otago. Born in Auckland, she lived in Malaysia for seven years with her family. Growing up in two different cultures helped broaden Nadia's food knowledge and palate greatly. As a teenager she discovered her natural flair for cooking and knew she wanted a career in food. She worked for Auckland District Health Board for a few years, before winning MasterChef, after which she has worked for Regal Salmon and in the kitchen of Simon Gault's restaurant, Euro. Her major project has been the weekly home-delivery meal service My Food Bag, which she set up with 2012 Businesswoman of the Year Cecilia Robinson and prominent business leader Theresa Gattung: Nadia provides nutritious seasonal recipes with all the required quality, free-range ingredients. She writes regularly for the New Zealand Herald's Bite magazine, and for Food Magazine. See more at www.nadia.co.nz.