I'm Francis Lamb and this is the splendid table from 8 p.m. So a couple of years ago cookbook by the hilariously unexpected title of salad freak burst onto the scene,

climb the bestseller list, and honestly forever changed the way I look at making and

eating salads. The author Jess Damack had worked for none other than Martha Stewart herself

and honed her style of making food light, wholesome, but totally full of flavor.

Well it turns out that the salad freak didn't come from nowhere. She has the original salad

freaks the fank. The hippies. Her new book, Health Nut, is a sun-drenched love letter to hippie cooking,

but I swear it tastes really good.

So hey, Jess, hi.

I am so glad you can make it.

I mean, literally, because you have had like the busiest couple of years since we talk last.

Yes, it's true. You so you co-wrote not only co-wrote Benny Blanco's cookbook but your own at the same exact time.

So congratulations, I'm glad you made it through.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And you know, I have to say it looks like you had fun making the book too because I mean I love both of your books they have so much style and this one is

Super inspired by the 70s and hippies and hippie food.

Like I think you literally have a recipe in the book

that was inspired by a person named Isis Aquarius.

And you know, I thought it was kind of like fun and cool and quirky and then I'm like, I don't know, I thought was kind of like fun and cool and quirky.

And then I'm like, I don't know, I realized like half of what I eat now

was probably considered hippie food.

It's tofu, it's whole grains, it's vegetables, literally granola. I actually eat a lot of granola.

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