Low So Good: A Guide to Real Food, Big Flavor, and Less Sodium with 70 Amazing Recipes

Description

This is a comprehensive yet inspiring general special-diet cookbook that breaks downs the challenges and misperceptions associated with following a low-sodium diet. Author is blogger Low-Sodium Girl, Jess Goldman Foung, a thirty-something San Franciscan who lives a low-sodium life due to kidney failure. She lives a beautiful life in a Noe Valley home, with husband and daughter, cooking beautiful food inspired by SF's farmers' markets and best restaurants, proving via this lifestyle cookbook that a special diet can be an inspiration. 12 chapters cover everything from setting up a low-sodium kitchen to eating at an airport, with 50 recipes including sodium content, serving size, and other nutritional information. There's no beautiful low-sodium book on the market, nor is there one that feels both comprehensive and contemporary. Low-So Good, with color photography, lifestyle advice, and delicious recipes, is the book for a new low-sodium lifestyle for a wide audience.

Days after turning 21, Jessica Goldman Foung collapsed and was diagnosed with lupus. After 6 months of hospitalization, dialysis, and chemotherapy, her health stabilized, but her kidneys were severely damaged. She had to drastically reduce sodium intake. So began a quest for information and community that would allow her to live and eat fully. She has written for publications as varied as Ladies Home Journal, Edible San Francisco, Cooking Light, and Prevention; is a regular contributor to HuffPost and the Kitchen; and was an editor at Daily Candy. She is a go-to television personality with appearences on Today and Access Hollywood. Her blog receives over 40,000 page views a month; she has 2,000 Twitter followers, 3,000 Facebook fans, and partnerships with The American Heart Association, National Kidney Foundation, Vitamix, Whole Foods, and so on.