Anna and Roger Wilde, the Nelson-based authors of REAL FRESH FOOD, have a mindful and holistic approach to food. Roger Wilde spent many years working as a restaurant chef in Australia, the UK and New Zealand. He now works as a private chef and gardener. He is also a deeply committed meditation practitioner and teacher. Anna Wilde has worked as a shiatsu practitioner and teacher, winemaker's assistant, whole foods cook and restaurant manager. Now a busy and happy mother to toddler Gabriel, she continues to work part-time as an online practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques. Together, Anna and Roger set up Wild Health, an organisation that endeavours to educate people about maintaining a healthy diet. Their popular website www.wildhealthfood.com and e-newsletter provide recipe ideas and nutritional information to thousands of people all over the world. They have also previously operated a popular healthy food cooking school from their home in Nelson, New Zealand. ABOUT ANNA AND ROGER Both of us a have spent considerable time practising meditation, including silent retreats for weeks at a time. Roger's experience as a lay practitioner and then monk in a Japanese Zen Temple over 4 years, and Anna's retreat time, has instilled in both of us an awareness of the importance of spiritual development and personal growth. In has taught us that while food is an important basis for good health, the state of the mind and how we respond to life circumstances plays a crucial role in being happy and fit on all levels. Anna has dealt with eating addiction issues (compulsive over-eating) for many years and only recently has discovered healing and freedom using the support and inspiration of a 12 step programme, in combination with EFT and meditation. While committed to sustaining a healthy diet 95% of the time, she knows intimately that 'it is not so much what you're eating, it's what's eating you'. We have tried many different diets: vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, and even ate a raw food diet for one year. These days a moderate middle path including healthy sources of animal protein suits us best. We set our recipes within the context of cultivating a wholesome life (as described in more detail the book). We conscientiously walk the talk, with humour and energy.