Part III: BUILDING - Creating New Patterns
Chapter 7: The Art of Simplicity
Recipe 7: Perfect Roasted Vegetables (Any Season)
Real food is simple, and delicious. When you start with ingredients that are alive—vegetables that still carry the energy of the soil they grew in, herbs that release their essential oils when you crush them between your fingers—you don't need to manipulate them much to create something extraordinary. The art is in restraint: good salt that enhances rather than overwhelms, olive oil that carries heat evenly, timing that respects the natural rhythms of transformation. When you master the simple technique of roasting vegetables—that ancient alchemy of heat and time that concentrates flavors and creates new compounds—you have a template that can adapt to any season, any mood, any craving. This is how you build a sustainable relationship with healthy eating: not through complicated rules, but through simple practices that become second nature.