Article: Must Have/Must Do: Tuesday's book: Foods for Mind and Body by Michael van Straten

She's a startling icon of the Nineties: hair of flying herrings and strips of lean meat, kiss-curls of ginger and mussels, oysters for ears, a complexion of mixed pulses, a carrot nose, rosy apple cheeks, blackcurrant pupils set on apricot eyes, a collar of celery laced with basil leaves and rosemary, studded with hazelnuts. Not only is she unforgettable, but she's good for your memory: an edible mnemonic of the foods to tone up your little grey cells.

Everyone I've shown her to so far has wanted the book in which she appears. For van Straten's goddess of brain-food prefaces illuminating advice about which foods increase your mental energy and concentration. And mental energy is today's ...

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