Nourishing: Recipes and Reflections on Recovery

by Helen Ashwell, Dick Makin

Overview

Nourishing: Recipes and Reflections on Recovery combines over 75 delicious recipes from around the world with heartfelt, honest and thought-provoking stories about the role food can play in the journey to recovery from illness.

Nutritionist and cook Helen Ashwell reminds us how the smell, taste and texture of food can rekindle a forgotten memory. In Nourishing, snapshots of memories from staff, service users, patients and carers of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust sit alongside the recipes, and highlight the importance of food, family, cultures and traditions in our lives. Handing down family recipes can generate feelings of belonging, warmth, love and acceptance among families and friendship groups.

Beautifully illustrated throughout by food photographer Dick Makin, Nourishing promotes an interest in home-cooked food whilst offering insight into how people deal with personal adversity. Nourishing aims to raise awareness, reduce stigma and celebrate positive strategies for people with mental and physical health issues.

Nourishing also reminds us that food can be a comfort: something that is vital for life and for living, but which is also connected to contentment, delight and nourishment of body and soul. The pleasure comes not just from eating, but from preparation and cooking.

Michelin starred chef, Sat Bains, endorses the book by recognising the value of wholesome, home-cooked food and family support. He comments: ''The routine of preparing and sharing food together goes further than nutrition. It brings a sense of balance into life.''

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780904327151
Publisher:	Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

Helen Ashwell qualified as a chef/cook specialising in classic and Mediterranean cuisine. So began a lifelong interest in food, good nutrition, health and well-being.
In 2004 her work at Rampton Hospital – the high security psychiatric hospital in Nottinghamshire – focused on weight management programmes for patients with related physical health problems.
After gaining a teaching qualification, she began work as a lecturer in the Hospital’s Further Education Centre where she tailor-made a healthy eating cookery programme, delivered in consultation with patients’ medical teams. Whilst continuing to lecture in Healthy Eating, in 2008 she embarked on a Master’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Nottingham.
Her first book, Positive about Healthy Eating, adopted as a model by Nottinghamshire Healthcare in 2009, stimulated staff and patient interest in a cosmopolitan range of healthy option recipes.
In 2011 she had an exciting opportunity to write a second book, collaborating with patients, service users, carers and staff within Nottinghamshire Healthcare.
Nourishing: Recipes and Reflections on Recovery is the result.
Dick Makin is an experienced commercial photographer who knows how to get the right picture, both artistically and technically, always with a keen eye for how the picture is to be used. In addition to food, his portfolio includes buildings, places of worship, oil paintings, archives and silverware. Dick Makin can be contacted through dmimaging.co.uk.