Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

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I was first given this book by an herbalist friend of mine who endorsed its content and position ondiet, but warned me about Sally Fallon's "spit-and-vinegar" approach to food choices and social change. No doubt--Nourishing Traditions absolutely lives up to its subtitle in Sally Fallon's direct, no-nonsense critique of prevailing nutritional values and investigation of the vagaries of processed foods. This book is both a bible of useful recipes and an argument for a considered, holistic relationship to food and diet that are incredibly valuable.

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There is no need to if you feel that way. However, if you have had trouble with your health, teeth, or wellbeing and are trying to find answers, this cookbook is one hell of a place to start! Sally Fallon expands on what Dr. Price learned. (It's not necessarily what you are eating as much as what you AVOID eating). You will learn why modern foods really aren't foods at all. They are just highly-processed-eviscerated-commodity profit items for their makers, and a vacuous nutritional wasteland for the rest of us! We have been deceived and cheated! That is their principle - this is her warning.

Sally Fallon Morell, MA

okay, this is going to be harder to explain but I have this definition I never had before in my face and body. Like, contours I never knew I had. And it's not the weight loss because even when I was terribly thin I didn't have quite the same definition. I mean, it's magic! She is also president and owner of NewTrends Publishing, serving as editor and publisher of many fine books on diet and health, including other books in the Nourishing Traditions® series. Her most recent titles are The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care (with Thomas S. Cowan, MD) and The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children (with Suzanne Gross). That leads to the last thing that really makes sense to me, which is the idea of beneficial bacteria and having a balance in your body rather than trying to scour everything with purell. If you have a well built up colony of bacteria in your system they will be there to compete with the bad bacteria for space and be your defender!

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I found this book most valuable as an opening to thinking differently about food - and that there is a reason that much popular and media endorsed nutrition is so confusing and contradictory - it is based in political, fad, or agenda thinking rather than biological history - and the absolute flood of processed and manufactured food into our diets and the resulting explosion of health problems has everyone scrambling to come up with answers that don't offend anyone or any industries that might be implicated - or challenge too far the 'everybody says' or 'everybody knows' syndrome. Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats ONE THING I have noticed that is astounding to me is the difference in their facial structures and teeth/jaw formation. After reading Weston Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration", as well as Francis Pottenger's "Pottenger's Cats", it makes sense to me why this is so. My little girl has such a beautiful and wide jaw, with perfectly straight and spaced teeth which i know will allow for her permanents to grow in without crowding, while my son has very crowded teeth and a more narrow jaw and has already had cavities while my daughter has had ZERO. (SEE PICS!) There are a few bizarre things...I think she promotes eating meat raw, though specially prepared and of course from clean sources. I'm not willing to go that far. Heh. This cookbook brought my understanding of food to a new level. More than any other (aside from perhaps my Zen cookbook), Fallon's book made me engage with ingredients and think about them in new ways. It added another dimension to my cooking (almost literally--it was like moving from Flatland to Sphereland). It showed me where the life was in my food.

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Some of her recipes are not the greatest...I would suggest finding some one who has tried them before making. I have made the kraut, kimchi and ginger carrots using kefir whey and they have turned out well.

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And on third glance-- once I got past all the dense reading and into the actual recipes-- wow, this stuff is yummy. Sally is also the author of Eat Fat Lose Fat (Penguin, Hudson Street Press, 2005), co-authored with Dr. Mary Enig and Nourishing Broth (Grand Central, 2014), co-authored with Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN.

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I exaggerate. But not much. She represents most of what I love and hate about the holistic health movement(s), and as a result, I think that her book is important reading for all of us. Nourishing Traditions is based on the work and travels of Weston A. Price, a dentist in the early 1930's who wondered why teeth on his young patients were getting so bad, (among other things) but not of their parents. The dichotomy of this was so relevant, it inspired Dr. Price to find out why. In our own home, I try to soak my grains more than half the time and avoid refined sugar. However, at family and friends, I relax about it. I'm not going to tell my kids they can't have cake made with refined sugar and/or HFCS when all the other kids are. I hope that when they are older, what I teach them at home will guide them in making wise choices. While it REALLY bothers me that some parents are clueless about eating smart, I can't always control what my kids eat outside of the home w/o causing some sort of scene or possibly offending our hosts. Reading this book, you get the feel that you have to become an absolute food nazi and I think that, barring an extreme health issue, eating well 90% of the time and encorporating good eating habits, etc., in our children is probably good enough. Note: there are some things that are too late and can never be changed. As adults our teeth and bones are permanently malformed by modern foods, but our children and unborn may still have a chance. Buy this cookbook for them! Update: This book deserves 3.5 stars. I enjoyed her information on history of food and history of food in different nations and many recipes. Of course, I think that eating real food, not processed, does help prevent many a disease and does contributes to better over-all daily health. I also do think soaking grains is helpful. I appreciated that she made it clear that we, in America, need more cultured food in our diets. However, some of her information irked me. I do believe that there are many illnesses that were not properly diagonsed years ago (or the disease did not yet have a name), therefore, it seems that some diseases are on the rise, when, in fact, modern medicine enables better, earlier diagnoses. She states that some diseases were almost unheard of before modern food and I find that a little hard to believe. Obviously, food allergies and type II diabetes, most likely, play a huge part in eating poorly, however, I don't buy her extremist approach about disease and food. I think food plays a huge part, however, there is more to it than that (environmental, genetics, etc) and she didn't elaborate enough, in my opinion.

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Nourishing Traditions is more than a cookbook–it’s an education that will lead you to “cook with pride,” as you will know that you are giving your family the proper nourishment for a lifetime of vigorous good health. Now that is the real “joy of cooking!” Lisa makes the best soft chervil goat cheese with chives and garlic. And the other day she gave me a jar of her homemade fermented Anaheim peppers. “It would be good with eggs,” she said. I took it home and made my special scrambled egg dish that consists of 2 eggs, beaten with some milk, then scrambled in olive oil. Next, I slice up some tomato, avocado, and then I add some of her cheese, but I do not cook them. Well, this time I sliced up some of the fermented peppers and added them. I was so in love with this meal, with the added peppers, that I had it again that day for lunch. Sally’s lifelong interest in the subject of nutrition began in the early 1970s when she read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price. Called the “Charles Darwin of Nutrition,” Price traveled the world over studying healthy primitive populations and their diets. The unforgettable photographs contained in his book document the beautiful facial structure and superb physiques of isolated groups consuming only whole, natural foods. Price noted that all of these diets contained a source of good quality animal fat, which provided numerous factors necessary for the full expression of our genetic potential and optimum health. Sally applied the principles of Dr. Price’s research to the feeding of her own children, and proved for herself that a diet rich in animal fats, and containing the protective factors in old-fashioned foodstuffs like cod liver oil, liver, raw milk, butter and eggs, make for sturdy cheerful children with a high immunity to illness. Note: You may have to use another jar, a pint one. I say thins because ours overflowed. So after mixing up the liquid, etc. I poured the mixed into both jars, covering the peppers. I had hoped that she would have elaborated on her information and covered all the facts, not just her side. For example, her information on Chinese having larger pancreas, therefore being able to eat more rice than most of us ever would want to, wasn't elaborated on. They have a larger pancreas b/c they develop one over time. They aren't born with a larger one. However, she left that fact out.

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It is apparent that a previous reviewer has not thoroughly read the book, and seems to be laying on as much 'propaganda' in her review as she accuses the authors of doing in their book. It is true that the authors do not encourage veganism or even vegetarianism - and this reviewer seems to take issue with this particular subject rather than the point of the whole book which has much to offer.