Cooking for the Love of the World
Awakening Our Spirituality through Cooking

Anne-Marie Fryer Wiboltt

Softbound

$22.95

Feed your soul, nourish your body, and take joy in the creation of meals that truly make a house a home. Anne-Marie shows us all how to make foods that are filled with life and health, that celebrate through taste and beauty the seasons of the year, and that are so palatte-pleasing that everyone will come back again and again, hoping for more.

Inside the covers of what appears to be just another modest cookbook are gathered into one place some of the best discussions I've ever read on nutrition, life-filled food, taste and the change of seasons as the primary source of daily fare. The attitude the pervades Anne-Marie's work is one of love and appreciation for all the good things the earth brings us. Her's is also an attitude that is fully practical and very much at home with the work of the kitchen, it's demands and it's rich rewards.

Here you will find recipes for making quickly fermented salads using a Japanese pickle press (these are great inventions - you can easily get one for yourself at amazon.com). I've been using such a device for over a year and can't recommend them highly enough.

You'll also find beautifully written instructions for making delicious sourdough breads, yogurts, soups, main courses (this is not a vegetarian cookbook, though there are many vegetarian choices), deserts. All of these are far from being "health food" in the sense of sacrificing flavor at the expense of some idea of nutrient content. On the contrary, they are vibrantly exploding with flavor. Trust me, you'll love the meals you make from this book - and so will all your family and friends.

Very, very highly recommended! Bon apetite!

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

Revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition

Sally Fallon
with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D

Softbound

$25.00

As a convinced vegetarian of some 25 years, I opened Sally Fallon's book to her many meat recipes and immediately closed it again. But then I figured that there must be more to it than that. There is . . . I was surprised at the wealth of information to help me (even as a vegetarian) make better food choices and prepare the ones I have chosen to get the most nourishment from them.

-Peter Hinderberger, MD, Past President
Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine

I LOVE this cookbook! There are over 700 recipes and eveyone I've tried produces delicious, satisfying, healthy food. Reading it inspires both appetite and joyous cooking -- and, the only cookbook I can think of that offers almost as much variety as this one, is The Joy of Cooking. I was serious when I said "almost" as much variety -- out of a foundation of world traditions, there is more creativity, wide-ranging ingredients and surprising combinations here than in any other cookbook I've read (we're talking hundreds - I love cookbooks).

As much as I love the recipes, I think I love Fallon's research and clear thinking about food the best. I knew I'd met a friend when I discovered that the bedrock of her research begins with Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who got to wondering what the nutritional roots of good dental formation and health were and set out on several journeys around the world, photographing and documenting which groups of people had well-formed teeth, which did not, and what each group generally ate.

In 1939 he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration which is the classic study of isolated populations on native diets and the disasterous effects of processed foods and commercial farming methods on human health. The book includes Price's unforgettable photographs showing the superb dentition and facial development of peoples living on nutrient-dense foods. I first saw these photos in the late 1970s in one of the original Whole Earth Catalogs. I've never forgotten them, and the little bit I learned from them has guided my diet and what I chose to feed my family ever since. In later years, I was startled to find that Rudolf Steiner offered similar conclusions about human nutrition from an entirely different perspective, which shouldn't have been surprising, but somehow was anyway.

What Nourishing Traditions offers is a diet that brushes aside Politically Correct notions of nutrition in favor of traditional food choices that are known to produce robust health. What you'll find is a diet rich in meat, vegetables, whole grains, naturally sweet treats and brimming with easily absorbed vital nutrients. And flavor. Lots and lots of flavor -- as though the love of cooks throughout the ages infused each bite.

A great book!

*See also The Fourfold Path to Healing, the nutritional approach of which is based on Nourishing Traditions.

The Waldorf School Book of Soups

Collected by Marsha Post

Arranged and Introduced by Andrea Huff

Illustrated by Jo Valens

Spiral Bound

$14.95

I've been watching and waiting for this book for a long time - now that it's here, I can report that it's even better than I had hoped. Soup Day was always a favorite of mine when I worked in a Waldorf Kindergarten, so I expected to find a collection of wonderful, tasty recipes. My expectations are deliciously rewarded -- there's soup for all seasons, occasions and tastes. You'll love them!

What I didn't even dare expect was the attention to nutrition and food sources. After reading through The Waldorf School Book of Soups, I've decided that next time, I'll set my hopes to a higher level. This book offers, in the clearest and most concise ways, a thorough introduction to the value of organic and biodynamic food as well as an outstanding overview of some of the most important nutritional principles articulated more fully in Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.

In other words, The Waldorf School Book of Soups is just plain excellent and destined to serve families, classes and, most especially, children for years to come.

The Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book

Collected and Annotated by Lisa Hildreth

Illustrated by Jo Valens

Spiral Bound

$12.95

This is another one of those books that many of us have been waiting for years to see someone publish - hooray! that the day has arrived.

Lisa Hildreth has gathered up recipes and suggestions from many different Waldorf kindergarten teachers and topped them off with high-quality research and explanations about the whys, wherefores, and other considerations. This is book that any parent or teacher of young children will come to treasure and use daily for many years.

With contents that range from rich and rewarding considerations to mouth-watering recipes, The Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book is such a celebration of food and children that you'll find yourself singing each time you prepare meals. This is one indespensible book!

Contents:

• Planning Your Snacks - How Are Snacks a Part of Our Day? What Foods Nourish Young Children? How Does Food Affect the Process of Incarnation? What Foods Might You Wish to Avoid? What about Sugar? What Types of Snacks Will You Decide to Offer? How Can Snacks Help Children Make Connection? Will the Snacks Meet the Needs of Your Special Group of Children?
• Snack Menus - 3-Day Nursery Menus; 5-Day Kindergarten Menus; 4-Day Kindergarten Menus
• Our Daily Bread
• Warming Soups
• Luscious Fruits
• A Grain a Day - Here's where you'll find the list of grains (and colors!) by days of the week!
• Happy Birthday Cakes and Muffins
• Festival Foods

Yummm! Gesundheit!

Foodwise
Understanding What We Eat and How It Affects Us
The Story of Human Nutrition

Wendy E. Cook

Softbound

$34.00

Foodwise is the best-ever-written account of nutrition from the perspective of Anthroposophy (and includes some great recipes!). The account is wonderfully enhanced because, rather than the somewhat clinical accounts previously available, Wendy Cook's not only brings us the facts but laces them with her own enthusiasm for food and for cooking (she was personal cook to many British celebrities many years before she wrote Foodwise).

When her daughter became ill, Wendy Cook began to study the deep aspects of nutrition, particularly the effects of different foods on human health and consciousness. In Foodwise she presents a cornucopia of ideas, advice and commentary, informed by the work of Rudolf Steiner.

Cook relates human evolution to changes in consciousness and the consumption of different foods, considering among other topics the importance of agricultural methods, the nature of the human being, the significance of grasses and grains, the mystery of human digestion and the question of vegetarianism. She also analyzes the nutritional (or otherwise) qualities of carbohydrates, minerals, fats and oils, milk and dairy products, herbs and spices, salt and sweeteners, stimulants, legumes, the nightshade family, bread, water and dietary supplements. She ends this comprehensive survey of nutrition with practical tips on cooking, planning menus, children’s food and sharing meals—and some mouth-watering recipes!

Louise's Leaves
A Cook's Journal Around the Calendar with Local Garden Vegetable Produce

Louise Frazier

Softbound

$9.95

This is a book whose contents are so delicious to read that you can almost smell the fresh herbs! Louise Frazier has poured 12 years experience in maintaining a fulfilling diet with local produce in every season (and yes, she lives where there is a real winter) onto the pages of this elegantly illustrated book. The recipes are great - really, really tasty; but, her suggestions for how to use each vegetable are even greater because they energize and inspire your own wonderful creations. They also bring to life and understanding what is special and wonderful about each and every one of them. This is a beautiful, delicious and nutritious way to learn about the bountiful world of plants as it graces your table.

Nutrition
A Holistic Approach

Rudolf Hauschka

Softbound

$28.00

In an age of mass food production, Dr. Hauschka considers one of the most neglected aspects of nutrition—the quality of food. He discusses aspects of food that can be measured by conventional scientific means, as well those that defy quantification by the usual methods. He relates these findings to a historical survey of food cultivation, preparation and preservation, and to the question of the chemically treated foods of today. Included are fundamental dietary suggestions by Dr. Margarethe Hauschka.

The Whole Soy Story
the dark side of America's favorite health food

Kaayla T Daniel, PhD, CCN

Hardbound, dust jacketed

$29.95

The Whole Soy Story is a groundbreaking expose that tells the truth about soy that scientists know but that the soy industry has tried to suppress.

• Soy is not a health food, does not prevent disease and has not even been proven safe.
• Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory studies link soy to malnutrition, digestive problems, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders, even heart disease and cancer.
• There is no culture that has ever existed where widespread consumption of unfermented soy beans or soy products has ever occurred. The small number of people who did eat such products did so because the effects on the endocrine system were noted -- the soy eaters were monks seeking help in sustaining their vows of chastity.
• Dairy cattle that are fed on grass and grains can live to nearly 30 years old; those fed on soy and corn die at between 7 and 9 years of age.

The list actually goes on (and on). This is a critical gathering of facts that we believe everyone should know. Change your diet, change your life.

Anyone in America who is interested in safe, healthy nutrition must come to terms with Dr. Kaayla T Daniel's The Whole Soy Story. This book is a gauntlet thrown at the feet of the soy industry, whose reputation often seems based as much on self-promotion as science. Well-written, authoritative and accissible to the lay person, this is science writing at its best.

- Larry Dossey, MD
Author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words

Cookery Book from the Lukas Clinic
for patients with cancer or precancerous conditions

The Soceity for Cancer Research
Arlesheim, Switzerland & Stuttgart, Germany

Softbound

$7.95

The Cookery Book offers a collection of recipes that grew out of the research done at the Lukas Clinic, the famous anthroposophical cancer clinic in Switzerland. All recipes in this book are part of the clinic's menu for patients. This is a valuable sourcebook, whether you are recovering from an illness or want to make a health-conscious, preventive diet part of your everyday life.

House of 3 Froggies
A Teacher/Parent Manual on Health and Nutrition

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

House of 3 Froggies is not only an excellent presentation of basic nutrition and health for our children (and ourselves!), it is the only such presentation I am aware of that is written directly for teachers and parents within the framework of Rudolf Steiner's educational impulse. Yet another outstanding offering by Alan Whitehead. Here's the contents: nutrition in school; infant nutrition, the liver, diet and health, food psychology; cereals, food and morality, fluoride in water, the common cold, tobacco, soy, 7 soul spices, milk, dried foods, bread, on dying, sun 'protection,' longevity, drugs, nuts, apples, sugar, edible oils, fibre, pasta, vitamins.

Nutrition and Stimulants

Lectures and Extracts by Rudolf Steiner

Compiled and Translated by K. Castelliz and B. Saunders-Davies

Softbound

$18.95

This is a fascinating collection of extracts from many different lectures in which Steiner discussed a variety of substances and their effects on the human body, temperaments, thinking, and reporduction. Included are discusstions about coffee, tea, alcohol, nicotine, opium, milk, honey, beetroots, radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, sugar, chocolate, adn more. There are discussions about meat vs. vegetarian and cooked vs. raw foods, as well as indications for child nutrition and teaching children about nutrition. His spiritual insights are given in a nondogmatic way that can help us understand our own nutrition and relationship to different foods.