It is easy to spend summer worshiping a good tomato and admiring a decent eggplant. But if you ignore the rest of the summer goodness not only you miss out on a lot of deliciousness but also potentially undermine your health as I have recently learned at the cooking class by Ulli of Ulli Ayurveda.

You don’t need Ayurveda to tell you that summer calls for cooling foods, but honestly I have seen few people that go beyond iced beverages and raw salads, two obvious solutions to cool down your body and mind on a hot day. According to Ayurveda, ancient Indian healing system, there is much more to the summer diet that that.

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Millet Salad with Roasted Zucchini By Olga Irez of Delicious Istanbul