Happy Food for Life

Niklas Ekstedt is one of Sweden’s most treasured chefs and restaurateurs, having started several Michelin-starred restaurants. He is also well known for his cooking show Niklas Mat, which ran for over ten seasons in Sweden and is a regular on UK TV, often appearing on Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, as well as his role as a ‘food hero’ on Crazy Delicious.Henrik Ennart is a medical science journalist for one of Sweden’s largest newspapers Svenska Dagbladet. In spring 2017 he wrote an article about how people can find happiness through food, which became one of the most read articles to appear in the newspaper that year.

Happy Food For Life is the perfect balance of approachable scientific analysis ... blended with Ekstedt's carefully curated, very approachable recipes... These are refreshing, varied, plant-heavy recipes that help all of us eat better, nurture our guts and boost our immune system. New year's resolutions or not, surely that's more important than ever.

• IntroductionPart 1: You’re as healthy as your planetChapter 1: Bottoms upChapter 2: Presenting your gut floraChapter 3: One with natureChapter 4: Dizzying new researchChapter 5: What most affects your gut floraChapter 6: Emotional eating Chapter 7: Food and well-beingPart 2: Meals that cheerChapter 8: Set for successChapter 9: How do you really eat?Chapter 10: Flavours for both big and smallChapter 11: Emotional upsetsChapter 12: We’re all differentChapter 13: A Nordic breeze is blowingChapter 14: Back to your rootsEpilogueRecipesIndexBibliography