Today's busy lives need food that is balanced, healthy, beneficial to our bodies-and, of course, sublimely delicious.

Enter "Feed the Beloved Soul with Ayurvedic Cooking: Indian Vegetarian Cuisine."

Author Kumud Gokani follows her extremely popular first book, "Cooking with Kumud," with this extraordinary collection of authentic Indian family recipes. Prepared by vegetarian Indians every day, each dish is based on the health-giving and healing properties of Ayurveda.

In this lighthearted and easy-to-follow cookbook, Gokani discusses a variety of common Indian spices, the proper...