Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet

Improve your health, boost your energy levels, increase your brain power, live longer, and even save money on your grocery bills with 150 budget-conscious paleo diet recipes from gourmet chef Pauli Halstead.

These easy-to-follow recipes provide more than 20 choices for every meal of the day—even desserts and snacks—and all are free of grains, gluten, sugar, chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones. More than just a cookbook, Primal Cuisine also explains the dietary theory behind the primal lifestyle. Chef Pauli's step-by-step advice to eliminate unhealthy carbohydrates and optimize protein and healthful fat intake demonstrates how the foods of our ancestors—such as wild-caught fish, grassfed meats, and organic vegetables, nuts, seeds, and berries—are still the best choice when it comes to improving your physical and mental health. From Mardi Gras Crab Cakes with Creole Remoulade to Beef Carpaccio Salad, from comfort foods like Sunday Roast Chicken with Herb Butter & Roasted Vegetables to completely sugar-free desserts like Lemon Cheesecake with Berries, this companion to the bestselling Primal Body, Primal Mind opens the door to a sustainable primal lifestyle of health, energy, mental focus, and long life using innovative recipes to delight your family, impress your guests, and inspire your culinary talents.

Pauli Halstead has been a Bay Area and Wine Country chef for more than 30 years. She began her culinary career in 1975 when she opened Pauli's Café in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. The owner and executive chef of The Best of Everything Catering Company based in the Napa Valley, she lives in Nevada City, California.