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contents DECEMBER 2013 on the cover 48 | Step by step to total relaxation 68 | Find bliss in your practice 65 | 16 poses for radiant energy 57 | 4 ways to open your heart 24 | Avoid colds this winter 74 | 6 poses for winter sports 22 | Easy holiday mocktails features 68 | JOY TO THE WORLD Let the symbolism behind the pose Natarajasana inspire you to stand strong in your center while life whirls around you. by Alanna Kaivalya 74 | LIFT OFF Yoga gives pro snowboarders a leg up—and can improve your ride too. by Diane Anderson cover credits model: Elinore Cohen; stylists: Lyn Heineken and Lucila Tepper; hair/makeup: Ivan Men- doza/Workgroup; top: Lovely 153; leggings: Lululemon Athletica; earrings: Satya; malas: Blooming Lotus; cuff: alkemie; photography: Wari Om CINDY SANTINI 2 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM

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contents December 2013 26 34 yoga lifestyle 19 | OM Bringing your practice to life Tias Little writes about starting each day with a morning practice; celebrate the holidays with non-alcoholic mixers; ski- 65 iers take yoga onto the slopes; and more. 30 | STYLE 37 Gift guide Thoughtful holiday gifts inspiration to nourish, pamper, and inspire. 37 | EATING WISELY 57 | WISDOM practice Reach out Here’s how to cultivate compassion Shelf life This year saw a new stack of yoga-friendly cookbooks with recipes 48 | BASICS for others—and why opening your heart helps you for healthy living and eating. Corpse pose This pose may look sim- too. by Sally Kempton CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: OJO IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHY/VEER; SEAN DAGEN; MICHAEL WINOKUR; ERIC WOLFINGER by Lauren Ladoceour ple, but exploring its subtleties will teach 96 | YOGA SCENE you how to relax with attention and 83 | REVIEWS Love connection Two yogis find a deeper con- release long-held tension in your body New books, CDs, and DVDs, featuring an nection to one another, along with a healthy dose and mind. by Nikki Costello interview with Kundalini Yoga teacher of fun and play through partner yoga. Krishna Kaur; plus a children’s book by 65 | HOME PRACTICE WITH Olaf Hajek; a yoga and Ayurvedic guide LARISSA HALL CARLSON in every issue for yoga mamas; a metabolic makeover Shine on Stoke your internal fire with 10 | EDITOR’S LETTER 91 | YOGA PAGES manual; an inspiring new practice DVD by an invigorating sequence that gets you 12 | CONTRIBUTORS 94 | LIVING WELL Peter Sterios; and more. glowing from the inside out. 14 | LETTERS 94 | CLASSIFIEDS 4 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013

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editor's letter Charity Ferreira called to share Consider the teachers who have helped you Qrow, in your practice and your life. IT WAS A SMALL THING, something that's happened many times before. I was settling into Savasana at the end of class when my teacher crouched down and gently lifted my chronically turned­ in shoulders one by one, tucking my shoulder blades underneath me and helping me to settle into a more com­ fortable position. The adjustment took just a moment, but it was made with such tenderness and care that I mar­ veled at the gift I had just received. Outside the studio, I felt a fresh wave of gratitude for the countless times and classes when teachers have shared their knowledge in an effort to inspire, or broaden, or deepen my experience of practice. It's the same feeling I had when my son's teacher Delicious, berry-flavored met me early in the morning, before her own workday started, to teach Zinc Elderberr Lozenges me some games and strategies I could use for helping my son learn his boost the immune system multiplication facts. Humble, grateful. And overwhelmed by the generos­ and soothe the throat. ity of spirit that inspires the teachers among us to give of themselves in Get the same results with order to foster growth and learning in others. Thera Zinc Throat Spray. This issue is rich with such offerings. Nikki Costello teaches the fner This Cold Season Don't points of Savasana -including how to relax your shoulders (Basics, page Catch Anything Else! 48)! Writer Diane Anderson interviews pro snowboarders about the gifts yoga has given them, and yoga teacher Eoin Finn offers poses to get you ,. . . . . .. .. . . .. . ready to ride (\"Lift Off\"page 74). Wisdom columnist Sally Kempton . . . . .. . . ... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . : : . � . writes about cultivating compassion and what it can teach us (\"Reach � • • . 1 � . . . : Out, \"page 57). And on page 68, Yga Journal' managing editor Jennifer .. . . . . . . . . . . ... . . � . . . . . . / Rodrigue, who is also a yoga teacher, offers a sequence to work up to this . . . . . . . . issue's inspiring cover pose, Natarajasana (Lord of the Dance Pose). + .. G Share your gratitude with the teachers in your • life and let us know about the gifts your practice has given you at [email protected]. DECEMBER 2013

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talk to us My daughters love it when I get a new Yoga Journal. standing The little one delights STRONG in showing me how easy it is to get in every pose. JACQUELINE SIMMONS Yoga can help those with osteoporosis and osteopenia (VIA FACEBOOK) MAINTAIN BONE MASS, BUILD STRENGTH, and PREVENT INJURY. BY CAROL KRUCOFF | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID MARTINEZ HALFWAY THROUGH AN EIGHT-DAY TEACHER TRAINING, I began to feel it: a dull throbbing in my right hip. For hours, I’d been sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of 40 students, discussing how to make yoga safe and effec- tive for older adults. In such a supportive environment, you’d think I’d have switched to a different position—or maybe even sat in a chair. Yet I stubbornly continued to return to Easy Pose, which I began to think of as Painful Pose, SEPTEMBER 2013 until getting up became so agonizing that I had to walk in circles to straighten out my hip. Welcome to my late 50s. Aging comes subtly. The risks and changes sometimes have a harbinger, like the pain in my hip, and sometimes they don’t. Signs such as graying hair, the softening underbelly of a chin, and joint stiffness are easy to see and feel. Yet other changes are completely hidden. Just after my 50th birthday, my physi- cian suggested a bone-density scan since I had many risk factors for osteopo- rosis—including being a thin, postmenopausal woman with a family history TOUCHY SUBJECT? Some yoga studios offer Kudos for Carol Krucoff’s story about yoga for women with osteoporosis students cards to place on or osteopenia (“Standing Strong,” September ’13). I started taking yoga their mats so that teachers can see at a glance if ad - classes at my local YMCA after menopause. Never did any of the instruc- just ments are welcome or tors warn participants that bending forward or twisting poses could be not. What do you think? dangerous for older students. I found the information provided by (ASKED ON FACEBOOK) Ms. Krucoff to be informative, detailed and encouraging. The instruction by Ellen Saltonstall for bone-strengthening poses and variations was Adjustments are part of yoga. Verbal and visual demonstra- excellent. Thank you and keep up the good work. JACQUELINE VIEUX tions are great, but can’t com- pare to knowing how the correct posture feels in your body. If soothing scents ageless practice a student is uncomfortable being touched I think it should The story “Travel Easy” (August Thanks for such an inspiring maga- be his or her own responsibility ’13) says that Kathryn Budig uses zine. The magazine would be even to inform the teacher. a blend of orange, clove, pepper- more so for me if there were occa- TARA O’LEARY HUGHES mint, birch, and cinnamon oil sional photos of older people prac- when traveling, but the article ticing yoga. I’m 67 and have been As a teacher, you don’t know doesn’t describe the amount of practicing for 37 years. I practice your student’s story. A card is each oil in the blend. Would it be daily, a combination of what I’ve a great way to make them feel possible to get instructions for learned over the years from teach- less “on the spot.” I think it’s making this oil blend? ers of Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga. a wonderful, caring gesture. DENISE HENDERSON I’m so grateful for yoga; it keeps EMMA ESSERY me young in both mind and body. New students might have no EDITOR’S NOTE Kathryn Budig It would be great if this message suggests combining 1 tablespoon could reach older people. There are idea what adjustments are and of a base oil like coconut or sesame lovely photos of young models per- what they can do! Just making it all about ‘being touched’ is with 20 drops each of peppermint forming poses that are just a dream kind of the wrong thing to ask. and birch oil, 10 drops each of for most of us. But yoga is not just ASTRID BRIX orange and clove oil, and 5 drops about looking good. There’s so of cinnamon oil in a small jar. Dot much more, and it gets richer and on your wrists and neck for a calm- more wonderful as you age. ing fragrance in fl ight. ISHBEL ASKEW The exercise instructions and advice presented in this magazine are designed for people who are in good health and physically fi t. They are not intended to substitute for medical counseling. The creators, producers, participants, and distributors of Yoga Journal disclaim any liability for loss or DAVID MARTINEZ twitter.com facebook.com letters@yoga injury in connection with the exercises shown /yoga_journal /yogajournal journal.com or the instruction and advice expressed herein. 14 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



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om PERSPECTIVE RISE THEN SHINE are bubbling up, and what am I telling myself in response? Sit- ting meditation helps cultivate the deep inner listening that allows me to foster the sensitiv- ity needed to fine-tune the in - strument of my body in Triangle Pose or Downward Dog. After my seated practice, I begin to actively extend and refine my breath. This awakens prana, stimulates the nadis, the energetic channels of the subtle body, and builds inner fire before I move into my asana practice. The process of inner listening is like being a meteorologist, for as you observe the changing atmosphere within—noticing the high pressures, the low pres- sures, the scattered clouds, and Instead of checking WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN you first wake up building fronts—you become your email when in the morning? Lounge in bed? Start planning your more aware, more awake to what day? Check email? The first hour of the day is pre- is actually happening. Morning you wake up, check cious, and for centuries yogis have cherished the practice is your meteorologist’s in with yourself. dawn for personal practice: meditation, building tool, the barometer for revealing their prana, and opening their bodies with the the momentary thoughts, im - rising sun. I have come to savor my morning prac- pressions, and feelings that churn tice—meditation, pranayama, and asana—and rely on its rejuvenating and en er- inside. Over the hours, months, gizing benefits that “pranagize” my body and prepare it for the day to come. and years, this listening barome- Beyond that, establishing a stable home practice is a cornerstone for per sonal ter becomes more fine-tuned, transformation in yoga. When I first became serious about Ashtanga Yoga eventually revealing how, ulti- and went to Mysore, India, in 1989, classes started at 6 a.m. Mysore style is self- mately, we are not any of these guided, and this helped put me on the trajectory to a regular, disciplined prac- weather systems. This deep tice. My ongoing daily practice enables me to stay limber and centered, while inner listening allows your yoga also allowing me to check in and listen to the shifting patterns of my physiologi- practice to become a means for cal rhythms, my thoughts, and my emotions. This capacity to observe and no - letting go of whom you think tice what is arising lies at the root of all yoga practice. you are and whom you think you These days, I like to sit in meditation for 10 to 20 minutes before moving ought to be. into my morning asana routine. This helps me “take my own pulse” and gain awareness of my biorhythms, moods, dreams, and digestion. My sitting practice Tias Little directs Prajna Yoga in is suffused with a spirit of inquiry, which helps ground me in the moment. Santa Fe, New Mexico (prajnayoga. BOB THOMAS/GETTY IMAGES Where is my breath now? Which of my nostrils is more open? Which of my net). His new book The Yoga of the lungs is more pliable? What sensations and attitudes are arising? What are the Subtle Body will be published by expectations I have of myself? What are my hopes and fears? What thoughts Shambhala Publications in May 2014. 20 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013

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om TRAVEL at one with the how green is your mountain CHRISTMAS TREE? Honor the holiday season by planting a tree—not chopping one down. About 24.5 million Christmas trees were purchased in the United States in 2012. To keep up with demand, Christmas tree farmers plant approx- imately 30 to 40 million seed- lings in North America every year, with about 340 million Christmas trees growing on US farms at any one time. Typi- cally six to eight years old when felled, these trees—firs, pines, spruces, cypresses, and cedars—absorb millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in their short lifespans. But these stands of trees are often inundated with herbicides and insecticides. As skiers and snowboarders become increasingly interested in overall One great alternative is to well-being, a growing number of ski resorts are offering yoga to meet guest purchase a live, balled tree demand. Experience the flow and snow for yourself this winter. from a local nursery and plant it after the Yuletide ends. Your ALTA, UTAH The slope-side Alta Lodge is teaches an on-snow class called Mindful Move- tree will enhance wildlife habi- offering an early spring clinic ($2,091, March 2 ment SnowMotion ($249) that integrates the tat and absorb carbon dioxide to 6) for backcountry skiers and boarders, which mind-body connection of yoga with skiing and for many decades to come. includes twice-daily yoga classes that focus on snowboarding. stratton.com City dwellers, or those with - proper alignment for ski touring and downhill out yards, can consider donat- skiing. The package includes all meals and ski SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Yoga for Skiers ing live trees to public parks guiding. utahmountainadventures.com and Snowboarders is a four-day workshop or friends with more space. ($350, Feb. 13 to 16) offered by the new Wan- SARAH TERRY-COBO BANFF, ALBERTA The Sunshine Village Ski derlust Yoga Squaw Valley that includes morn- and Snowboard Resort’s Rejuvenation in the ing and evening practice plus two days of skiing Rockies weekend program ($653) offers twice- or riding. And the one-day Social, Ride, and daily hatha yoga sessions. And you’ll stay in an Relax event for women snowboarders ($125, on-mountain, eco-boutique hotel, ski or snow- March 8) is sponsored by Burton Snowboards board at Sunshine Village Ski and Snowboard and includes demo gear plus mini spa treat- Resort, and eat gourmet organic meals. The ments. squaw.wanderlustyoga.com retreats include asana, pranayama, and medi- CULTURA/ALAN GRAF/GETTY IMAGES; FANCY PHOTOGRAPHY/VEER tation practices to restore balance to the body VAIL, COLORADO The Vitality Center at the and mind. skibanff.com Vail Mountain Lodge offers a variety of well- ness classes, as well as Ayurvedic consulting, STRATTON, VERMONT The Living Room, the massage therapy, and spa treatments. Their resort’s yoga studio that opened last winter therapeutic “lunar flow” yoga class ($35, which at the remodeled Black Bear Lodge, offers re - includes use of all gym facilities) incorporates storative, flow, and power yoga classes. Studio asanas that open hips and hamstrings. manager and ski instructor Jo Kirsch also vailvitalitycenter.com CINDY HIRSCHFELD 26 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



om IN SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION Maryland University of Integrative Health launches the nation’s first graduate program in yoga therapy. The 27 students in Maryland University of Inte- grative Health’s brand-new master of science program in yoga therapy come from a variety of different practices and professions but have one thing in common: the desire to acquire a com- prehensive and evidence-based approach to yoga therapy and bring it into medical settings, yoga stu- dios, and private practice. “We’ve got a very powerful cohort of entering students,” says program director Mary Lauttamus, an Integrative Yoga Therapist, who has been in practice for five years. “Some have been teaching asana for 20 years and others have more than 500 hours of yoga therapy training and have worked in fields like trauma and depression.” The goal of the two-year (six-trimester) weekend program is to offer students an education that is at once science based and philosophically grounded. Students Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita, and other classical texts to develop take classes in such topics as biomedicine, the anatomy a thorough understanding of the history of yoga and how it of movement, physiology and pathophysiology of the vital informs yoga therapy today. organs, and mental health and mind-body science, with an Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, an assistant professor of medi- emphasis on learning to think critically and take part in medi- cine at Harvard Medical School and member of the Interna- cal dialogue. “We want our students to be able to walk into a tional Association of Yoga Therapists, underscores the situation with, say, a relevance of such a program in healthcare today. “I think our graduates will create rheumatologist, and be “It’s a great step in a positive direction to formalize the new trajectories, developing new able to speak the termi- training in this way, and especially to provide these yoga in - research protocols. Some will nology and understand structors, who are already well experienced in yoga instruction, take their work into traditional the physiology,” says with comprehensive clinical training, including important healthcare settings. It’s a very Lauttamus. Students in formation on the symptoms and treatment for a variety of exciting time.” MARY LAUTTAMUS also read the Yoga disease states.” ALICE G. WALTON The ne plus ultra of REBIRTH eco-friendly yoga mats Nonslip, durable, and luxuriously thick, the Kharma Khare yoga mat is also hypoallergenic FROM TOP: SARAH WILKINS; QUENTIN VENNIE despite being made from recycled tires. And at eight pounds, it’s as stable as a (plug-in hybrid) Cadillac. The company donates 10 percent of net profits to The Minded Institute, Yoga for Hope, and Yoga Gives Back. $145; kharmakhare.com 28 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013

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eating wisely by Lauren Ladoceour shelf life This year saw a new stack of yoga-friendly cookbooks with recipes for healthy living and eating. FIRST, A MEMORY: Like most kids, Throughout December, she’d spend TOP the winter holidays were my favorite. long weekends with me, making Not because of the decorations, the Betty Crocker’s 1970s cinnamon rolls: cookbooks celebrating, or the sweets—although sugary, soft, light, and made from those certainly helped. No, it was the scratch. It was our thing—over which OF THE YEAR hours I spent with my mother por- we connected and grew close. But ing over sauce-splattered cookbook this year, my mother an nounced with EDITOR’S PICKS pages in her cheery yellow kitchen. renewed interest in nutrition and PHOTOGRAPHY AND FOOD STYLNG: ERIC WOLFINGER

eating wisely personal health, that she would not be the main stream—like Gwyneth Paltrow’s but they all have clear instructions for the eating the cinnamon rolls herself. Instead It’s All Good, which spent several weeks home cook. Most important, the recipes they’ll be going straight to neighbors and on the New York Times bestseller list. are absolutely delicious and are well worth family members who will be expecting With eager home cooks keen on making with someone you want to con- them to be delivered, as usual, with a fes- light er, more sus tainable fare to inspire nect with, over the holiday season and for tive bow on top. easy weeknight dinners and special occa- years to come. It seems that in the past year, my baby sions alike, restaurant chefs and authors boomer matriarch has traded in her time- are boldly embracing fabulous morning The French Market Cookbook honored cookbooks, heavy on condensed juice concoctions, food traditions and Clotilde Dusoulier | Clarkson Potter soup bases and light on fresh vegetables, spices from around the world, and heir- Light, healthy French food for new titles that outright glorify season- loom grains and produce. But what strikes might sound like a culinary ality and balanced eating. Looking at her me most while fl ipping through this year’s unicorn, but Parisian Clo- cookbook shelf today, I see pushed to the pages of big, beautiful food (some pictures tilde Dusoulier says it’s hap- front covers that promise vegan family tempting enough to lick) is how many of pening, thanks to a new class gatherings, global fl avors, and dining with these cookbook authors practice yoga. of French chefs who dig their own gardens good environmental conscience. And it Yoga has a way of infl uencing how prac- and cook from seed to table. “This way of seems hers is not the only kitchen library titioners look at their food choices in terms eating is not a limitation but rather a to receive a makeover. of health, energy, and sustainability. And broadening of our food horizon,” writes As a food editor, I receive stacks of now chefs and recipe writers are sharing Dusoulier, a fl exitarian who explores the cook books in the mail over the course of their new, inspired food choices through romance between gastronomy and sea- a year. In 2013, there was a bevy of re leases their cookbooks. sonal produce. that celebrate healthy eating. Once The following are 10 of our favorite You’d expect Dusoulier to pile on the tagged as “crunchy” or “granola with a cookbook titles of 2013, written by yoga fromage in her meatless recipes, but sprinkle of sunflower seeds on top,” practitioners with an eye to eating wisely, instead she abstains. Carrots are spiced cookbooks packed with recipes that are health, nutrition, and sometimes prac- with star anise and vanilla, and then good for you are now being adopted by tice. They’re listed in no particular order, puréed with almond milk. Portobello 38 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



eating wisely mushroom caps brim with aromatics and plums. A rustic méture bread from the Landes region gets most of its richness from pumpkin and walnut halves, to be enjoyed, she suggests, with a glass of wine, of course. Giada’s Feel Good Food Giada De Laurentiis | Clarkson Potter Want to know the Food Net- work star’s morning yoga routine? Turn to pages 38 and 63. Part cookbook, part life- style manual, the book brings to light how food and self-care practices work together to keep De Laurentiis in balance and in good health. Snacks, juices, sides, mains, and desserts are all covered in 120 recipes that mirror the Italian cooking she’s known for but with lighter influences. The recipes are simple, pre- cise, and low on things like refined sugar, and the nutritional information per serv- ing is a nice bonus. But what I appreciate most are the occasional indulgences like the goat cheese and spinach sauce that coats penne. Because what is life without a bit of creamy comfort? Gluten-Free & Vegan Pie Jennifer Katzinger | Sasquatch Books Seattle’s popular vegan, gluten-free bakery, Flying Ap ron, is known for its gar- lic-herb bread, cakes, and apple chips 3 Stand apples upright on a cutting 1 delicate cookies. But it’s pie These crisp, sweet apple chips are from board. Cut ⁄4 inch vertically off the right that’s on the mind of owner Jennifer Katz- Giada’s Feel Good Food by Giada De and left sides. Using a mandolin for inger in her fourth book. “While other Laurentiis. 1 ⁄16-inch slices, carefully cut slices until desserts are perennial, pie expresses the MAKES 4 SERVINGS you reach the core. Turn the apple over, changing of the seasons,” she writes. First and slice until you reach the core again. and foremost, pie is about the crust. And Vegetable-oil cooking spray Repeat with the second apple. Arrange what makes a good crust is fat. Katzinger’s 2 tablespoons sugar the apples in a single layer on the parch- healthy choice? Refined coconut oil, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ment. Sprinkle generously with cinna- which has a clean taste that won’t com- 1 ⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt mon sugar. pete with her yummy fillings, presented 2 (6- to 7-ounce) tart apples, 4 Bake for 30 minutes. Rotate the sheets in the second half of the book. Katzinger’s such as Granny Smith from top to bottom and from back to combination of brown rice and tapioca front. Bake for another 10 to 15 minutes, flours come mighty close to the gluten- 1 Position oven racks at the top and bot- until edges begin to curl, feel almost loving world’s standards for flaky pastry tom, and preheat oven to 300˚F. Line crisp, and are deep golden. Let cool com- too. Combine her simple formula for 2 large baking sheets with parchment pletely (they will crisp up more). handheld pies with one of her fillings paper. Lightly coat the parchment with (stewed Turkish apricots!), or make your vegetable-oil cooking spray. Recipe printed with permission from Giada’s favorite pie with her crust recipe, and see 2 Stir the sugar, cinnamon, and salt in Feel Good Food by Giada De Laurentiis if anyone notices the difference. » a small bowl until blended. (Clarkson Potter, 2013). 40 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



eating wisely The Heart of the Plate Mollie Katzen | Houghton Miffl in Harcourt The Moosewood Cookbook author admits that her fi rst recipes (published in the ’70s) were packed with starches, butter, cheese, sour cream, and eggs to reassure those who worried they’d be hungry without a steak. But this newest book, her eleventh, represents her matured understanding of making hum- ble garden vegetables the main event and exciting any palate through seasoning, measured heating, and timing. With re cipes like a puffy popover full of mush- rooms, the book is a lesson in creative cooking, setting aside ideas of what meals should be in favor of playful combinations of vegetables that work in harmony. It’s All Good Gwyneth Paltrow | Grand Central Life & Style After multiple health kicks interspersed with more in - dulgent times, Academy Award–winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow found a food philosophy that supports her yoga practice and busy work life. But don’t mis- take her second book for a diet guide. Instead, these are simply the recipes that Paltrow uses to feed herself and her fam- ily (see the kids’ menu in the second half). It just so happens that the dishes—such as an arugula salad with roasted beets, squash, and shallots dressed in a mustardy apple cider vinaigrette or black rice with fresh coconut—are healthy and appealing for the rest of us too. With beautiful pho- tos and tips on how to make most dishes vegan, vegetarian, or gluten-free, It’s All Good will inspire home cooks with dietary restrictions to enjoy all they can eat. Pilates: the perfect addition The Longevity Kitchen for ultimate results. Rebecca Katz with Mat Edelson Ten Speed Press Call for your free “Pilates Advantage” Recent studies on popula- DVD and catalog (code YJ08). tions that live especially long, healthy lives served as a road- map for chef and nutrition ist pilates.com | Rebecca Katz, bringing her to the kitchens of Okinawan, Greek, 1-800-PILATES (745-2837) and Swedish grandmothers. Her book 42 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013

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eating wisely chocolate bark This spiced, nutty chocolate bark from The New Persian Kitchen by Louisa Shafia makes a nice holiday gift or addition to a holiday cookie plate. MAKES 20 PIECES 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips or 16-ounce bittersweet chocolate bar, broken into pieces 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 ⁄4 cup dried mulberries 1 ⁄4 cup dried tart cherries 3 ⁄4 cup almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped 1 ⁄2 cup pistachios, toasted and coarsely chopped 2 teaspoons coffee beans, coarsely chopped Pinch of fleur de sel, Maldon, or kosher salt 1 Grease a baking sheet, and line it with parchment paper. 2 Melt the chocolate in a large stain- less steel bowl placed over (not touch- ing) simmering water in a pot. Add the cardamom, and stir to dissolve for a couple of minutes. Turn off the heat, and stir in half of the mulberries, cher- ries, almonds, and pistachios. 3 Remove the bowl from the heat, and dry the bottom with a towel. Pour the chocolate onto the prepared baking (co-authored with Mat Edelson) is filled The New Persian Kitchen sheet. With an offset or rubber spatula, with the nonnas’ old-world kitchen tech- Louisa Shafia | Ten Speed Press spread the chocolate in a wide rect- niques and recipes that have long been While researching her Ira- angle about ⁄4 inch thick. Sprinkle with 1 used to cure the ailing, with the addition nian heritage and culture, the remaining nuts, dried fruit, and the of Katz’s modern touches. In a comfort- Louisa Shafia discovered coffee beans, and press them gently ing bento box soup, for example, Katz that in Persian cooking, into the chocolate. Dust with the salt. kicks up the traditional ingredients there are energetically hot 4 Cool in the refrigerator for about thought to boost immunity by infusing foods and cold foods—not too different 2 hours, until hard. When firm, slide green tea into the miso broth. In her from yoga’s sister science Ayurveda’s chocolate onto a cutting board, and cut tabouli, she replaces the classic bulgur underlying philosophy that some foods or break it into pieces. Keep it refriger- wheat with buckwheat for its high levels stoke your digestive fires and others ated until just before serving. of rutin, which increase vitamin C’s anti- dampen it. The two traditions also em - oxidant capacity. It’s easy to want to go phasize fresh, in-season produce. That Recipe printed with permission from straight to the recipes, but don’t skip out knowledge influenced the recipes in Sha- The New Persian Kitchen by Louisa on the second chapter, a culinary medi- fia’s newest book, which features whole Shafia (Ten Speed Press, 2013). cine cabinet with a list of 80-plus ingredi- grains, lots of vegetarian options, and ents—turmeric, mushrooms, wasabi, tempeh, which makes a clever appearance maple syrup—plus their health benefits. in herb-flecked mashed potato cakes Grandma would be proud. drizzled with Thai tamarind sauce. » 44 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



eating wisely Plum Makini Howell | Sasquatch Books Chef Makini Howell grew up vegan, but most of her recipes don’t depend on to - fu to make them satisfying. At Seattle’s trendy ve gan res taurant and bar spot Plum Bistro, her modern take on Pacific Northwest food is shaped by the grill (for pizzas and vegeta- bles) and made-from-scratch pastas to be shared at home or at the restaurant’s large communal tables. The dishes and their components range from everyday fare to fine-dining foams, making this a book to take curious cooks to the next level. Vedge Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby The Experiment This Philadelphia restaurant is of the moment, with its small plates and fusion of Southern, Korean, South - east Asian, Japanese, and Turkish cooking. The chefs and owners have translated their recipes for home cooks who want to “make themselves and their world healthier” with innovative dishes like celery-root fritters in a tarra- gon remoulade or Tokyo turnips with falafel crumbs and a sesame cream. Vegetable Literacy winter carrots pot; add water to cover and 1 teaspoon Deborah Madison | Ten Speed Press Serve this vibrant side dish from Vegetable salt. Bring to a boil. Lower the heat and This is the book to get out Literacy by Deborah Madison at a holiday simmer, covered, until tender but not when you come home from feast or a weeknight dinner. too soft, about 12 to 15 minutes. the farmers’ market and MAKES 4 SERVINGS 2 Meanwhile, using a mortar and pestle, don’t know what to do with smash together the caraway seeds, the kohlrabi and Brussels 1 pound large carrots garlic, ⁄2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon of 1 sprouts you picked up. This new classic, a Sea salt the oil, and 2 tablespoons of the parsley. must for food and gardening enthusiasts, 1 tablespoon caraway seeds You won’t break up all the seeds, but is organized by vegetable families. Their 1 large garlic clove, chopped into the garlic should be mushy. members, Deborah Madison reasons, a few pieces 3 When the carrots are done, drain share characteristics and so can be used 2 tablespoons olive oil them, and then return them to the interchangeably in her recipes. It’s also a 4 tablespoons chopped parsley pot for a few minutes to dry. Add the lesson in flavor pairings: If dill, chervil, Freshly ground pepper remaining oil, the caraway mixture, and cumin, anise, caraway, and carrots are all 1 lemon, quartered plenty of pepper. Toss to coat. Add the in the Apiaceae family, it stands to reason remaining parsley, toss again, and serve that they’ll come together nicely on the 1 Peel the carrots. Then cut them with the lemon wedges. plate and on the palate. ✤ crosswise into chunks about 1 inch long. Cut the thicker pieces lengthwise into Recipe printed with permission from Lauren Ladoceour lives in San Francisco, halves or quarters so that all the pieces Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison where she publishes Weekend Almanac. are about the same size. Put them in a (Ten Speed Press, 2013). 46 Y OG A JOURNAL. C OM DE CEMBER 2 013



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