Nature: Simple, Healthy and Good
Cookbooks Nutrition Health & Wellness French Cuisine Gourmet Cooking Seasonal Cooking Clean Eating Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Nature: Simple, Healthy and Good distils three-Michelin-star chef Alain Ducasse’s lifelong obsession with produce-driven cooking into 368 gloriously photographed pages that prove “healthy” and “haute cuisine” can share the same plate. Published in 2011 by Hardie Grant, this oversized 25 cm hardback is more than a cookbook—it is a manual for living well through food. Ducasse and nutritionist Paule Neyrat organise 190 recipes around the seasons, each dish built from vegetables, whole grains, fish and fruit, with meat used only as accents. Expect sugar-free berry clafoutis, 15-minute lentil tabbouleh, and a Riviera-style fish baked in salt that tastes decadent yet stays under 400 calories. Every recipe lists complete nutritional data, prep and cook times, and QR codes linking to 40 streaming master-classes so even novice cooks can plate like a Michelin pro.
What makes this copy collectible is its near-pristine, smoke-free condition: no inscriptions, dog-ears or shelf-rubbed jacket, just crisp, glossy pages that showcase the volume’s 1 300 colour photographs and step-by-step illustrations. At 1.35 kg it feels substantial on the counter yet lies flat for practical use. Because the title went through a single print run in English and is now out of print, well-kept first editions are snapped up by culinary students, wellness coaches and Ducasse completists alike. The book’s durable sewn binding and thick matte stock mean it will survive another decade of kitchen splashes while retaining strong resale value.
For buyers searching “clean eating cookbook,” “French healthy recipes,” or “Ducasse signed first edition,” this copy offers instant kitchen credibility and long-term shelf appeal without the premium price of an author-signed volume.
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