Cooking for the Common Good
The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen
Written by Larry Stettner and Bill Morrison
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On Mount Desert Island, Maine, winter can mean six months of isolation and tough times, as year-round residents hunker down through the cold season. Larry Stettner and Bill Morrison vowed to change that. In November 2009, the Common Good Soup Kitchen opened its doors to the public, offering free soup as...
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Macrobiotics for Life
A Practical Guide to Healing for Body, Mind, and Heart
Written by Simon Brown
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Macrobiotics for Life presents a complete, holistic approach to health that can be applied to the body, mind, and soul. Combining the concept of a healthy, natural-foods lifestyle with a philosophy of self-love, macrobiotic expert Simon Brown explains how food, exercise, and bodywork can create greater physical health. Written in an...
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Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada
Written by David L. Spahr
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This beautifully illustrated guidebook provides specific, easy-to-understand information on finding, collecting, identifying, and preparing the safer and more common edible and medicinal mushroom species of New England and Eastern Canada. Author David Spahr, a trained commercial photographer, here combines his mycological expertise and photographic skill to produce an attractive and detailed...
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A Tradition of Soup
Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta
Written by Teresa M. Chen, Foreword by Martin Yan
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Through recipes that use time-honored medicinal ingredients, A Tradition of Soup provides a fascinating narrative of the Southern Chinese immigrants who came to the United States in large numbers during the last half century, the struggles they faced and overcame, and the soups they used to heal and nourish their bodies...
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Sustainable Sushi
A Guide to Saving the Oceans One Bite at a Time
Written by Casson Trenor
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Sustainable Sushi answers the question on the minds of millions who enjoy eating fish: how can we indulge the desire to dine well while keeping our health and the health of the oceans in mind? With painstaking research found in no other book on the market to date, this pocket-size guide...
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Sweet Gratitude
A New World of Raw Desserts
Written by Matthew Rogers and Tiziana Alipo Tamborra
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Sweet Gratitude is a cookbook with a message: raw desserts aren’t only healthier for both people and the planet, they can also be every bit as tasty–indeed, sinfully so–as their mainstream counterparts. Tiziana Tamborra and Matthew Rogers, both master dessert chefs at the pioneering San Francisco-based Café Gratitude, present a tantalizing...
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The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook
Recipes and Stories from a Zen Retreat Center
Written by Nadia Natali, Illustrated by Marica Natali Thompson
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The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook, based on Cooking Off the Grid, also by Nadia Natali, blends 126 tasty, healthful recipes with lively tales of the Natali family’s adventures living close to the land—in the wilds of California’s Los Padres National Forest. Nadia Natali's varied dishes, suitable for any group or family...
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Fresh
The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook
Written by Sergei Boutenko and Valya Boutenko
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Cookbooks need not—indeed, should not—involve cooking, say the authors of this authoritative, beautifully illustrated book. And they should know. Sergei and Vayla Boutenko bring fifteen years’ experience to this collection of scrumptious, sophisticated recipes and comprehensive guide to the raw life.
Fresh covers the whole range of recipes, including savory dishes, desserts...
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Portuguese Cooking
The Traditional Cuisine of Portugal
Written by Carol Robertson
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One of Europe’s oldest countries, Portugal is blessed with a flavorful, complex food tradition that brings together influences from Europe, Africa, and the Muslim world. It is also one of the world’s most scenic destinations, luring travelers with its pristine beaches and charming villages. Carol and David Robertson have traveled extensively...
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Sanando con alimentos integrales
Tradiciones asiáticas y nutritión moderna
Written by Paul Pitchford
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Healing with Whole Foods is recognized internationally as the authoritative source on integrative and personalized nutrition, merging modern nutrition with insights from ancient Asian traditions. Its more than 700 pages provide life-enhancing guidelines to renewal and rejuvenation, allowing readers to develop an optimal diet to fit their constitutional type. The book...
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The New Seaweed Cookbook
A Complete Guide to Discovering the Deep Flavors of the Sea
Written by Crystal June Maderia, Foreword by Josephine K. Spilka
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Recent trends suggest a wide range of consumer concerns in food choice and consumption. Increasingly, buyers prefer organic and locally produced ingredients; good taste; high nutritional and medicinal value; and low-allergen factors. The humble seaweed, nature’s richest source of iodine and loaded with minerals, addresses all these concerns.
In this combination cookbook...
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I Am Grateful
Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude
Written by Terces Engelhart, Contribution by Orchid
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With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Café Gratitude has become well known for its inspiring environment and distinctive, flavorful organic foods. In I Am Grateful, cofounder Terces Engelhart presents her and her husband Matthew’s view of life and business philosophy. She also presents her story of personal...
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Modern-Day Macrobiotics
Transform Your Diet and Feed Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Written by Simon Brown, Foreword by Michio Kushi
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A macrobiotic diet is beneficial not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. Consisting of nuts, grains, vegetables, and other foods that are primarily whole, living, and unprocessed, it combines foods in a way that balances the body’s energies. Modern-Day Macrobiotics is both a cookbook and a practical guide to understanding and...
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The Raw Transformation
Energizing Your Life with Living Foods
Written by Wendy Rudell, Foreword by David Wolfe
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This visually lively gourmet raw food recipe book provides all the information you need for increasing your health and well-being through a raw foods diet. The recipes will motivate anyone who wants to have more energy, vitality, and abundant health without feeling deprived of their former cuisine. In addition, the book...
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The Healthy Jewish Cookbook
100 Delicious Recipes from Around the World
Written by Michael Van Straten, Foreword by Bunny Grossinger
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Traditionally associated with the heavy, fat-laden foods of Europe — deep-fried latkes, chicken fat, and achingly sweet desserts — Jewish food is, in fact, far more varied. Jews who migrated to other parts of the world developed cuisines unique to their new countries, yet still flavored with the tastes of the...
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The Raw Food Gourmet
Going Raw for Total Well-Being
Written by Gabrielle Chavez, Foreword by Victoria Boutenko
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WARNING: The raw food recipes in this book are so delicious they may change your life!
The phrase 'raw foods' conjures up images of food as punishment—think uncooked carrots and celery, with perhaps a spinach juice cocktail as a chaser. However, uncooked doesn’t have to mean unappetizing, as this combination cookbook and...
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LifeFood Recipe Book
Living on Life Force
Written by Annie Jubb and David Jubb
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Life force foods are those found wild in nature and served uncooked. A life force diet is vegetarian, and mainly vegan, congruent with the philosophy that good food choices promote a sustainable future on the planet. This book applies life food principles to daily life. The authors explain how the LifeFood...
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Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
Written by Gabriel Cousens and Tree Of Life Cafe Chefs
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Medical researchers have found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet, combined with environmental pollutants and stress, can lead to a buildup of toxins in the body collectively known as chronic degenerative disease. Here holistic physician Gabriel Cousens addresses the dangers of foods that have been genetically modified, treated with pesticides, microwaved, and...
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Healing with Whole Foods
Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Written by Paul Pitchford
Price: $60.00
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Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, Healing with Whole Foods is an invaluable guide to the theory and practice of Chinese medicine. With facts about green foods such as spirulina and blue-green algae and information about the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics, it is also an...
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Healing with Whole Foods
Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Written by Paul Pitchford
Price: $35.00
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Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It's also a primer on nutrition—including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics—along with...
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The Galaxy Global Eatery Hemp Cookbook
Written by Denis Cicero, Kris Czartoryski, Suzanne Gruber and Michael Lipp
Price: $27.50
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Hemp has been used for decades for clothing, rope, and plastics, but it also has serious food value. As hemp becomes more accessible, and public awareness of its health benefits grows, demand for the inexpensive plant in its variety of culinary forms—as flour, oil, and seeds—is expected to increase. At the...
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Everyday Vegan
300 Recipes for Healthful Eating
Written by Jeani-Rose Atchison
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The vegan recipes in this book are based on the premise that eating whole natural foods enhances the body's innate healing abilities. Everyday Vegan inspires readers to take responsibility for their well-being by giving them knowledge and confidence in meal preparation. The book also includes kid-tested menus for nurturing a vegetarian...
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Coconut Cookery
Written by Valerie Macbean
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Coconut Cookery fans the flames of Valerie MacBean's longtime love affair with the tropical treat. Written specifically for adventurous amateur cooks, the book contains 130 recipes that will please everyone from gourmands to vegans. Cornbread, Cold Avocado Soup, and Fudge Balls are among the dishes that show the fruit's many uses...
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Mediterranean Soups
Written by Carol Robertson
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Mediterranean Soups presents glimpses of the Mediterranean at its most charming—people attending to the simple tasks of everyday life, architecture that evokes memories of the converging histories of East and West, and a wonderful array of traditions, cultures and cuisines. All contribute their stories and recipes to this unique travel cookbook...
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Vegetarian Turkish Cooking
Over 100 of Turkey's Classic Recipes for the Vegetarian Cook
Written by Carol Robertson, Photographed by David Robertson
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Robertson relates a series of captivating and delightful travel adventures in the first half of the book, unveiling the wonders of Turkey—from the ancient cities of Ankara to the spas at Bursa to the small village bazaars, where fresh vegetables line stone pathways and aged stucco homes. The second portion is...
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