The Spa-Rkle On Your Plate

The Finest In Wellbeing Cuisine From The Best Medi-spas Around The World

- Rashmi Uday Singh

Is this your ultimate dream? To love food, enjoy it, and still remain fit and healthy. For most of us, that’s what it remains–-a dream. It’s doubly challenging for me, because as a food critic I have eaten my way through 40 food books and countless food columns. The truth is I don’t “eat to live” “I live to eat” (literally too). So, it’s been a continuous quest over 15 years, researching and writing weekly health columns, and scripting, directing, producing and anchoring Health Today, a weekly TV show. Through it all, continuously checked out many a spa, worldwide.

So I’m filtering my decades-long global spa cuisine experiences in this limited space. Each one is distinct from the other: While the Italian Palace Merano is housed in a palace, the Austro-German Lanserhof is a squat minimalistic grey building offset by the lush beauty of mountainous nature around it. While the sea plays out the backstory to the Spanish SHA wellness, sitting on the Mediterranean coast; Sri Lanka’s Siddhalepa Ayurvedic resort does well coasting on the sea too. High up on a pedestal is the Grand resort Bad Ragaz, perched in the Swiss Alps that heals and nourishes too. All these have been magnetising global royalty, sportsmen, and super-stylish fashionistas in need of healing. Needless to add, each one grazes stratospheric heights of luxury (with prices to match). Although, based on different principles, each one combines natural healing with high-end modern research. Chew on this one: At the core of each of these medical spas is food and digestion.