In the high-end food world, “healthy cooking” has long been taboo. But as one of the only high-profile chefs today guided by the understanding that the food we eat has a deep impact on our health, Seamus Mullen has rewritten the old rule that healthy can’t be delicious. Seamus’s powerful transformation came out of his own health crisis—after a near-death experience brought on by an autoimmune disease he’d struggled with for years, he radically changed the way he cooked, both at his restaurants and at home.
 

Hero Food is Chef Seamus Mullen’s first cookbook. More than just a collection of 130 recipes, it is also an intimate portrait of his own journey with food, from his upbringing in rural Vermont to his formative years in Spain, to his battle with rheumatoid arthritis, an auto-immune disease that nearly ended his career. Hero Food is Chef Mullen’s personal philosophy of well-being, illustrating how he believes delicious food and wellness can go hand in hand.