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Starting off as a young, single woman with a desk job and a city apartment, Jenna Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. She didn't own land or have much practical experience beyond a few forays into knitting and soap making, but she did have a strong desire to opt out of what she saw as a consumer-driven culture. After moving across the country to a rented... (more)

The Maker's Diet

by Jordan Rubin

Miracle cure stories abound when it comes to natural healing. A super nutrient reverses cancer after chemotherapy has failed. A Chinese herb lowers high blood pressure in a patient with heart disease after being dismissed as quackery by doctors. Jordan S. Rubin’s account of returning from the medical abyss, however, includes an original twist. After several years of battling Crohn’s Disease, which included a small... (more)

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

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

by Sally Fallon, Pat Connolly, Phd. Enig, Mary G., Mary G. Enig

A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.

Real Fast Food

by Nigel Slater

Nigel Slater is one of the world's most accomplished food writers. Winner of six Glenfiddich Awards for his food writing and shortlisted for the prestigious Andre Simon prize for this book, he has had an enduring effect on cooking and helped bring to prominence a new generation of British chefs, including the Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, and Nigella Lawson. His down-to-earth style and infectious enthusiasm has won... (more)

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food

by Carlo Petrini

Slow Food, founded in Italy in 1986 in opposition to the culturally destructive effects of fast food, is now an international movement with more than 70,000 members worldwide. Increasingly popular in the US, Slow Food promotes conviviality, taste, biodiversity, and the preservation of traditional food cultures. "Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food" is an... (more)

The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round

The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round

by Ellie Topp

The easiest and safest methods for making delectable preserves in small batches -- all year long. "Takes the pressure off cooks who don't have much time... but still want to savor the season's bounty." -Chicago Tribune (Review of the prior edition) The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving takes the guesswork out of home preserving. Both beginners and pros can make the most of fresh fruits... (more)

In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food , the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma . Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were... (more)

Gardening for the Faint of Heart

by Robin Wheeler

Are you too embarrassed to ask simple questions about gardening? Are you are too timid to enjoy, or even start a garden? A non-threatening guide for the novice gardener, Gardening for the Faint of Heart outlines all the basics of backyard botany-from preparing your soil to reaping the harvest. The wise and witty Robin Wheeler offers endless tips on growing vegetables, herbs, berry bushes, fruit trees and flowers. (more)

Nobody Does It Better: Why French Home Cooking is Still the Best in the World

Nobody Does It Better: Why French Home Cooking is Still the Best in the World

by Trish Deseine

Named one of the best Cookbooks of the Year 2007 by the Los Angeles Times. We may hate to admit it (and never would to the French), but the truth is there is still nowhere in the world where food and cooking are so passionately and intricately woven into lives, hearts, and minds than in France, a country where masterpieces of home cooking are produced nightly, whether for a family supper or chic dinner party.... (more)

Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

by R. J. Ruppenthal

Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own... (more)

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

by Mark Bittman

From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters , a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health. We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ozone layer, but few people have focused on the extent to which... (more)

Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living

Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living

Where do great meals begin? Come to the Table brings you straight to the source of wonderful flavors, beauty, abundance, and pride of place—the small farms of California and the people who tend them season after season. Alice Waters, the celebrated chef and food activist, introduces a remarkable group of resilient fresh-food artisans who are committed to keeping our food supply delicious, diverse, and safe—for... (more)

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

by Nina Planck

Following the success of Real Food , Nina Planck’s Real Food for Mother and Baby explains why real food is better for woman and child. Nina Planck, one of the great food activists, changed the way we view old-fashioned foods like butter with her groundbreaking Real Food . T hen she got pregnant. Never one to accept conventional wisdom blindly, Nina found the usual advice about pregnancy and baby food... (more)

Real Life Cooking

by Trish Deseine

Dedicated to those who don't have time to waste and can't spend hours in the kitchen. This book will allow you to prepare nutritious food that is full of flavour. The dishes can be made in advance and left in the oven or chilled in the refrigerator to develop their full flavour. Recipes include: Coq au vin; steak and kidney pie; Thai curry; lemon tart; chicken and sage crumble; dauphinois with garlic; slightly... (more)

Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods

Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods

by Eugenia Bone

For anyone who's ever headed to their local farmers' market reciting the mantra "I will not overbuy" but has lumbered home with bags overflowing with delicious summer strawberries, zucchini blossoms, and tomatoes, or autumn apples, pears, and cauliflower, this book will be your saving grace. Well-Preserved is a collection of 30 small batch preserving recipes and 90 recipes in which to use the preserved goods.... (more)

The kitchen diaries : a year in the kitchen with Nigel Slater

The kitchen diaries : a year in the kitchen with Nigel Slater

by Nigel Slater

"Right food, right place, right time. It is my belief—and the point of this book—that this is the best recipe of all. A crab sandwich by the sea on a June afternoon; a slice of roast goose with apple sauce and roast potatoes on Christmas Day; hot sausages and a chunk of roast pumpkin on a frost-sparkling night in November. These are meals whose success relies not on the expertise of the cook but on the... (more)

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Made from Scratch

by Jenna Woginrich

The Maker's Diet

by Jordan Rubin

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

by Sally Fallon, Pat Connolly, Phd. Enig, Mary G., Mary G. Enig

Real Fast Food

by Nigel Slater

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food

by Carlo Petrini

The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round

by Ellie Topp

In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

Gardening for the Faint of Heart

by Robin Wheeler

Nobody Does It Better: Why French Home Cooking is Still the Best in the World

by Trish Deseine

Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting

by R. J. Ruppenthal

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

by Mark Bittman

Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

by Nina Planck

Real Life Cooking

by Trish Deseine

Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods

by Eugenia Bone

The kitchen diaries : a year in the kitchen with Nigel Slater

by Nigel Slater