Heidi Swanson's approach to cooking whole, natural foods has earned her a global readership. From her Northern California kitchen, she introduced us to a less-processed world of cooking and eating through her award-winning blog, 101 Cookbooks. In her first cookbook, Super Natural Cooking, she taught us how to expand our pantries and integrate nutrient-rich superfoods into our diets. With her latest James Beard Award-winning book, Super Natural Every Day, Heidi helps us make nutritionally packed meals part of our daily repertoire by sharing a sumptuous collection of nearly 100 of her go-to recipes.
Heidi's style is equal parts inspiration and instruction, showing us how to create a welcoming table filled with nourishing food for friends and family. Her seductively flavorful vegetarian recipes illustrate the beauty of uncomplicated dishes prepared well, demonstrating her approach to a healthy and sophisticated natural foods lifestyle.
Heidi's work has appeared in Food & Wine, Saveur, Glamour, the Washington Post, Time, Fast Company, Utne Reader and the Vegetarian Times, as well as on Salon and NPR online. Heidi lives, cooks and writes in San Francisco.
Q: What does "super natural" cooking mean to you?
A: It just means eating and cooking with ingredients that are as close to their natural state as possible. Minimally processed ??? cream paddled into butter, tomatoes made into sauce, that sort of thing. I like to know what I'm eating and where it came from.
