A Prince for Lunch: Invites his Five Friends

By Lenj Allison

A Prince for Lunch is a remarkable book that addresses the problem of obesity through ChineseMedicine, Western Psychology and Professional Cooking. Dr. Lenj's has over 50 years of experienceand his career has spanned all three fields. As a professional chef, he is one of the first winners of TheJames Beard Award for Professional Chefs, an extraordinary achievement.In A Prince for Lunch, you will learn the real causative factors for patterns and habits of overeating,and why most current diet theories are inadequate. Lenj believes that the majority of eating disordersstem from childhood trauma that suffocates the senses and stifles any awareness of hunger in themoment. Unlike other weight loss books meant to control your eating habits, A Prince for Lunchwill offer you delicious meals and a lively connection to the table. Lenj's encourages you to dedicateyourself to six weeks of his program and watch your cravings disappear.This is a rare opportunity to enter the world of a professional chef, whose career focuses on process andsensory perception rather than results. His experiences will awaken you to another reality of sensationsand tastes. Your curiosity will be sparked as you work your way through each week of his program.Lenj's instructions and exercises will give you a heightened perception of what it means to take chargeof the kitchen. Joining him in his lifelong, dynamic process makes you keenly aware that the realimportance of cooking lies in the spirit and process of what takes place in front of the stove.Lenj's career was guided by a heartfelt spirit. Hubert's Restaurant was constantly appearing in nationalmagazines, like Vogue and Bon Appetite, and food writers loved to describe Lenj's creativity as "allpassion, all philosophy and a wholehearted commitment to presenting uncompromising meals." Healso accompanies his creativity with insight. Following his recipes, you will feel the conscious mind asit unfolds now and releases enormous amounts of creative energy.Through working in Lenj's kitchen you will release much of your childhood trauma. It is amazing toknow what it's like to let go of negative experience, somewhat like Java the Hut peeling away layers ofdebris and garbage and becoming a clear, transparent human being with a new knowledge of the powerof food to heal and transform.Most of us don't realize as children how our attitudes toward food become conditioned. How many ofus as were raised to eat nurturing foods or encouraged to develop a knowing sense about your hungeror told anything about particular foods, except in disbelieving and nonsensical ways? Lenj is ableto connect us directly to discoveries made ages ago by Chinese doctors. Using Chinese medicineand dietary therapy as his guide, he offers a unique contribution that originates with Chinese dietarytherapy.Before each recipe he gives a list of the properties of the particular foods according to thousands ofyears or research and clinical experience. Chinese dietary therapy has known through continuingresearch what diseases each food helps to prevent and what conditions they improve.Lenj says, it would be a pity not to look at what Chinese culture tells us about hunger and to learnmore about the way children in China are taught to appreciate food. Over three thousand years ofexperience by doctor-scientists have been used to impart internal guide lines for weight control to mostChinese children.Finally, A Prince for Lunch presents a six week diet that includes kitchen organization, shopping lists,weekly menus, daily recipes, herbal supplements and journaling. The menus and recipes are easy tofollow and the food you cook will be delicious. You will learn to eat to nourish and build energy withinthe five famous yin organs, the heart, spleen, lung, kidney and liver. Keeping these organs balancedwill help you to maintain a healthy weight and you will have no fear of returning to a life of extrapounds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1450510973
• ISBN13: 9781450510974
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.6" x 7.0"