elegantsufficiency

Elegant Sufficiency is a blog created by Stephanie Wood, a Melbourne-based publisher, editor and writer:

"I started Elegant Sufficiency on a whim; my first post was one written late at night about an article I’d just read in the New Yorker magazine about a fashion designer called Hedi Slimane who, apparently, eats baby food to stay slim. I was aghast and amused and felt an enormous urge to share this hilarious information with others. I too need to do more to stay slim, or slimish, but baby food? My solution is to attempt, as often as possible, to cook things with maximum flavour but minimum (but not non-existent) carbohydrate and fat. I’ll share those recipes as I find them, and entreat the chefs of my acquaintance to share recipes they feel fit that description.
But it won't all be discipline and restraint: I'll include more than a few recipes that reveal the alarming increase in my love for desserts and baking.
Beyond that, I want Elegant Sufficiency to be constantly surprising, humorous, offbeat, whimsical, personal, and full of opinion, thought, ideas, inspiration, links worth following, recipes, photographs and great writers."

* The Elegant Sufficiency masthead was designed by the very talented Melbourne illustrator Robin Cowcher.
** The Elegant Sufficiency name was designed by my late grandmother, Alice Hadorn, an extraordinary woman who lived through a time in our history in which women rarely achieved their full potential. Alice was a secretary, cryptic crossword decipherer, avid reader, dreamer, almond eater, consoler, letter-writer, wit and canasta player. And a woman who always knew when to say 'no, thank you, I've had an elegant sufficiency'.