The Expanding Light Cookbook

by Blanche Agassy McCord

The book is for great-tasting, healthful, vegetarian cuisine including Indian, Middle Eastern, Japanese, Thai, Italian and Mexican. Every recipe is simple, easy to use and delicious. In it you will find terrific new vegetable dishes, grains, beans, soups, salad dressings and quick brands. There are dairy as well as non-dairy recipes. Besides the book provides a wide selection of suggested menus for lunches and dinners for various seasons of the year. Appendices provide valuable relevant additional information. With this cookbook, you'll learn to make naturally satisfying meals that are easy to digest, leaving you feeling light and energetic.

About the Author:

Blanche Agassy Mccord is the head chef at The Expanding light, where she also teaches yoga, meditation, and vegetarian cooking classes.

Situated amidst Northern California’s majestic Sierra mountains, the Expanding Light is a spiritual retreat center, founded in 1968 and is one the world’s most successful residential spiritual communities.

http://www.expandinglight.org/

She learned vegetarian Kosher cooking while growing up in Israel, studied Temple Cooking with Buddhist monks while living in Kyoto, Japan, and learned Ayurvedic, macrobiotic and Indian cooking from premier California chefs.

Reviews:

"Blanche applies her mastery of natural cooking in these healthy and delicious recipes which are sure to improve your health and well-being." - Marc Halpern

"Delicate, nourishing and divinely satifying vegetarian recipes." - M.J. Spearin

"Blanche's creativity as a gourmet cook and her knowledge of the vegetarian diet has produced a wonderful book full of uniquely delicious recipes." - Sue Loper-Powers

"Every recipe we've tasted or made from this cookbook has been exceptional." - Eric Glazzard

"Flavorful, healthful, uncomplicated recipes; they will have high appeal for newcomers to vegetarian cooking and long-standing vegetarians alike." - Helen Sanderson