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five-ingredient truffles. Week after week,

she surprised the house with balanced

deliciousness, with nutrient-rich taste

revelations—things the students had never

tasted before, like sweet potato wontons with

garlic tamari dipping sauce, and sun-dried

tomato and basil hummus.

Laura Lea has embarked on the audacious

creation of an original food culture that I

think of as “Laura Lea’s elegant hippy food.”

Every one of Laura Lea’s innovative recipes

takes you on an adventure. Some of my

favorite Laura Lea recipes in this volume

include: Sweet Chili Pumpkin Seed Clusters,

the Blueberry Ginger Breakfast Smoothie,

Lightened-Up Green Pea Guacamole, and the

Corn, Kale & Goat Cheese Chickpea Cake.

These are tastes of my new South.

Nashville, a city where Laura Lea has deep

roots, is located in Middle Tennessee—an

area that has long been associated with the

creation of intentional communities seeking

to create ideal worlds in which individuals

thrive. In the 19th century, three of the most

famous American utopias were in Middle

Tennessee: Nashoba, Rugby, and Ruskin.

This area is also home to The Farm, where

the modern art of midwifery was reborn in

the 20th century. In the 21st century, Laura

Lea is building on these traditions in the

reality of food to connect us to the ideal of

loving balance, abundance, and a willingness

to engage in new creations.

Laura Lea creates recipes that are bites of

love, containing her loving ambition to feed the

world well, and to feed the world deliciously—

with positive intentions for our bodies, for the

health of this planet we call home, and for

restoring joy through the pleasure of taste.

Every year, each of us embarks on a 365-

day journey around the sun. This cookbook

invites you to make part of your journey a spa

for the soul. Cook through these pages, and

you will discover that Laura Lea provides an

easy way to feed your body, your family, your

friends, your lover, and any and all beloved by

you in a way that restores balance by adding

more joy, beauty, flavors, textures, elegance,

energy, and calm. This cookbook is more than

a cookbook—it is a map to a balanced way

of life that reflects the graceful wisdom of a

serene young chef, wife, and friend.

— Alice Randall

Author, with Caroline Randall Williams,

of Soul Food Love

Nashville, Tennessee, 2017