All the books I’ve reviewed so far for Capital Cooking have been cookbooks. This book, however, is more of a self-help book that involves changing your diet. The book consists of author Dawn Amador’s journey from “zitty to pretty.” Amador, a licensed aesthetician and owner of Skin Logic, begins by telling readers about her troubled childhood and her obsession with skin care, which increased drastically during her battle with acne in her twenties. Like most people who suffer from acne, Amador zealously tried every skin care regime and anti-acne fad and diet she could find. Nothing worked until she discovered the Alkaline Principle and changed her diet and lifestyle. The Alkaline Principle is based off your body’s need to have a proper balance of alkalinity and acidity. However, the modern diet is laden with foods that leave an acidic residue in the bloodstream, hindering detoxification.
