Anna Jones — The Best Healthy Cooking Hacks, What Happens Behind The Scenes Of Writing A Cookbook, And A Simple Trick To Find Your Life’s Calling

Anna Jones (@we_are_food) is the award-winning author behind three mega-popular cookbooks, A Modern Way To Cook, A Modern Way To Eat, and The Modern Cook’s Year. The Guardian columnist came up in the industry as one of Jamie Oliver’s proteges, and now is a household name revered for her delicious, accessible (but never boring!) plant-based fare.

On this episode of the Healthier Together podcast, Anna shares a ton of tips that got me excited about cooking vegetable-forward food again, including how she adds umami flavor to vegetables, her go-to breakfast, her weeknight dinner hacks, the ingredients she always has in her pantry, and more. She also shares what it’s like to actually write a cookbook and develop recipes, and the productivity method that helped her along the way. Finally, she lets us in our her unusual career path, that led her from a desk job to starring on a TV show with Jamie Oliver and ultimately penning her own books.

This is a great episode to listen to if you want to get excited about cooking healthy food, or you want simple tips to take your cooking to the next level (and make it way easier and less time consuming in the process). It’s also a great one if you’re thinking about taking a new step in your life and career but feel a bit stuck as to what that might be.

Enjoy!

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PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy right here or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.