You won’t believe they’re low-carb recipes!

There’s no shortage of eating plans designed to help you lose weight, from intermittent fasting to calorie counting to low-fat diets, but many doctors now believe that the key to long-term healthy weight loss lies in controlling one’s intake of carbohydrate. Most obviously that means cutting out sugar, but also many of the starchy foods that form a staple of our diets such as potatoes and pasta.

That was bad news for the chef Giancarlo Caldesi, who despite eating what he considered a healthy diet of unprocessed home-cooked food, was devastated when given a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and told he should embrace a low-carb lifestyle. With the help of his English wife, Katie, he gave up bread, pasta and rice – no mean