Eat our words: Growing appetite for healthy eating cookbooks 

The publishing world has taken notice of an appetite, in all senses of the word, for cookbooks that help time-pressed readers to produce healthy and nutritious meals simply and quickly. Clodagh Finn samples some of these inspiring reads

In more specialised fields, there are more cookbooks than ever to help you make more wholesome choices for better health. Picture: iStock

There was a time when it was easy to separate so-called ‘healthy eating’ books from mainstream offerings but that is no longer the case as health and nutrition have become guiding principles in so many of this year’s books on food.

The publishing world has taken notice of a general appetite, in all senses of the word, for cookbooks that help time-pressed readers to produce healthy meals simply and quickly. Those twin aims permeate Neven Maguire’s Midweek Meals (Gill Books, €22.99), for instance, although there is also a section called ‘low and slow’ which catered for the boom in cooking during the country’s first lockdown.