Flow On

You might know Sarah Wilson as the woman who quit sugar, but there’s plenty of sweetness to this bestselling author. Her latest initiative is about paring things back to simplicity, sustainability and fl ow — and not just in relation to food.

- Ally Mcmanus

Sarah Wilson is an Australian journalist, international bestselling author, entrepreneur and philanthropist. For those of you who don’t know, Wilson is the founder of the highly lauded IQuitSugar movement, under which banner 15 books have been published.

In between riding her bike around Sydney in lieu of a car and escaping to the mountains to hike and connect with nature, she’s written yet another book. Her latest brainchild, Simplicious Flow, is a zero-waste cookbook that came out last year.

“It’s how I cook,” she says. “It’s the antirecipe cookbook because it’s not this idea of recipes that allow you to make one thing. It doesn’t just stop; you keep flowing. Flow and flow and flow. On and on and on.”

Wilson’s journalism career began in print publishing and she was News Corp’s youngest opinion columnist at age 24. She then took the glossy mag world by storm and became the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine only five years later. In between hosting the first season of MasterChef in 2009 and now, she penned all of the aforementioned books and launched IQuitSugar (2012), an initiative dedicated to — yep, you guessed it — quitting sugar.

Not all of her books are about food, though. In 2017 she birthed a (now bestselling) book called First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, in which she sheds a more spiritual, philosophical light on her experiences living with anxiety and bipolar disease.

Flow in the kitchen

More than 3000 people took part in an IQuitSugar survey Wilson undertook while writing Simplicious Flow. It confirmed the biggest issue was food waste.