Donna Karan certainly didn’t gain a spare pound this winter. In fact, she looked so good at a lunch to benefit the New Yorkers for Parks held in her Madison Avenue store last week, that she had everyone wondering: Just how does Donna do it? It could be the two-plus hours Karan puts in on the yoga mat daily, or it could be the high-powered green juice chef Jill Pettijohn serves up. “My green juice wakes me up and gets me going every morning,” says Karan. “It’s my coffee.”
Here’s the recipe:
GREEN JUICE
3 organic apples
1 stick celery
1 cup spinach leaves or kale
1 inch ginger root
1/2 fennel bulb
1/2 cup parsley
1/2 cucumber
1 tablespoon tocotrienols (vitamin E derivatives)
1 tablespoon of nutrient-mineral powder (such as Nature’s First Food)
1 teaspoon goat’s whey
1 teaspoon flaxseed oil
About 6 nuts (macadamias are Donna’s favorite)
Pass the first seven ingredients through a juicer. Pour into a blender and add the remaining ingredients. Blend, taking care to leave the nuts chunky enough to chew them.