Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
It isn’t often enough when a cookbook gives you more than just recipes. Nourishing Traditions is filled with fact based nutrition that counters some of what we see in the trendy news everyday. Someone really hit the nail on the head when they said this was like ‘Joy of Cooking’ in the sense it was a textbook as much as it was a cookbook. Honestly this book as been on my coffee table since it was purchased because of all of the information in this book, and the recipes are top notch too!
What I really like about this book is this first few chapters, Sally Fallon goes over nutrition over the ages, and dispells some of what’s currently noted in our pop culture media. Guess what sometimes everything is good for you in some circumstances. Food isn’t inheritantly evil. We have the responsibility to ingest high quality food, and we should not leave these important decisions to food manufactors or mass media to tell us what is best for us. She then goes over important kitchen appliances, and ones that aren’t so important. She covers basic ingredients and gives multiple suggestions for incorporating better choices into our diet.
I love her recipes. She has many recipes for making your own saurkraut, and a variety of other pickled and fermented vegetables. These are so easy to make. What you aren’t going to find in this book are recipes that ask you to put in ingredients with a lot of preservatives in here. She is never going to ask you to add Miracle Whip or Italian dressing to anything. The recipes do not lack flavor, in fact, you won’t even miss a lot of these off the shelf ingredients that we so often use.
I am passionate about this book. If you are wanting to improve your diet sensibly, this is the book to pick up. She isn’t asking you to become a vegan, or even go vegetarian, she gives information and then recipes to help you give yourself better nutrition. I would recommend this book as a starter book in trying to eat more healthy. You can’t go wrong with Nourishing Traditions.
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