The Skinny On Chef AJ's Book - Unprocessed

I read a lot about health and nutrition these days which is a good thing because I’m a healthcare practitioner.  And although nutrition isn’t a large part of my everyday duties as a pharmacist it’s certainly extremely important to one’s overall health, and I realize that. Since I never received any training or education in regards to this during pharmacy school I’ve taken it upon myself to learn as much as I can about this subject on my own time.  The latest book to help fill in this gap is the wonderful work and product of Chef AJ.

Chef AJ has become one of my favorite culinary artists and is also a bit of a rockstar in the plant-based world.  She’s brilliant in the kitchen and makes eating a whole foods, plant-based diet surprisingly simple and unbelievably delicious in her new book Unprocessed.  I guess that comes with the territory when you’ve got nearly 35 years of experience under your belt eating and preparing plant-based meals.  It wasn’t always easy for Chef AJ though.

She starts off by sharing her lifelong journey on how she got to where she is today—a raw/vegan pastry chef who teaches others about the healing power of foods.  Chef AJ didn’t begin her journey on some big health kick however.  She actually endured many difficult lessons as she consumed a vegetarian diet full of processed food in the beginning.  She lived off of what she terms as her four basic food groups: sugar, flour, oil, and caffeine.  This diet reeked havoc on her mind and body over the years.

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