I bought this book very hopefully: it is hard to find completely fat-free recipes published in England. This American book, however, is not easy to adapt for ingredients easily found in UK, and particularly, in rural areas. I wish I knew of a really good fat-free recipe book for us.
Nevertheless this book is not a complete waste of money and if you're prepared to be creative with the recipes, use it.
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This delightful book contains more than one hundred recipies of raw foods that can be prepared by slicing, dehydrating and juicing or cooked at low temperatures. Compiled by Roxanne Klein, a proponent of the health benefits of raw food, and restaurateur and writer Charlie Trotter, it opens up a new world of culinary delight in which the food retains all of its nutritional value.
Intense heat destroys beneficial enzymes and that is why raw is better. The authors explain the beauty and the health benefits of fruits and vegetables whilst providing delicious recipes like for example Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout and Peppercorn Crusted Cashew Cheese with Honeycomb and Balsamic Vinegar.
This delightful book contains more than one hundred recipies of raw foods that can be prepared by slicing, dehydrating and juicing or cooked at low temperatures. Compiled by Roxanne Klein, a proponent of the health benefits of raw food, and restaurateur and writer Charlie Trotter, it opens up a new world of culinary delight in which the food retains all of its nutritional value.
Intense heat destroys beneficial enzymes and that is why raw is better. The authors explain the beauty and the health benefits of fruits and vegetables whilst providing delicious recipes like for example Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout and Peppercorn Crusted Cashew Cheese with Honeycomb and Balsamic Vinegar.
A revealing and wide-ranging account of why people through history have declined to eat meat. Starting with an attempted reconstruction of anthropoid diets in prehistory as largely without meat, Spencer quickly gets onto Pythagoras' belief in the transmigration of souls, and what he sees as related developments in the thought of Hinduism and Buddhism. He goes on to examine how the philosophical speculation of gnostic and Manichean variations on `orthodox' Christianity provided a rationale for avoiding meat on the part of those who wanted to keep the soul untainted by things (literally) `of the flesh' - a rationale that endured into the Middle Ages in the dietary practice of the (mercilessly persecuted) Bogomils and Cathars. Only in the modern ... Read More:
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A revealing and wide-ranging account of why people through history have declined to eat meat. Starting with an attempted reconstruction of anthropoid diets in prehistory as largely without meat, Spencer quickly gets onto Pythagoras' belief in the transmigration of souls, and what he sees as related developments in the thought of Hinduism and Buddhism. He goes on to examine how the philosophical speculation of gnostic and Manichean variations on `orthodox' Christianity provided a rationale for avoiding meat on the part of those who wanted to keep the soul untainted by things (literally) `of the flesh' - a rationale that endured into the Middle Ages in the dietary practice of the (mercilessly persecuted) Bogomils and Cathars. Only in the modern ... Read More:
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A revealing and wide-ranging account of why people through history have declined to eat meat. Starting with an attempted reconstruction of anthropoid diets in prehistory as largely without meat, Spencer quickly gets onto Pythagoras' belief in the transmigration of souls, and what he sees as related developments in the thought of Hinduism and Buddhism. He goes on to examine how the philosophical speculation of gnostic and Manichean variations on `orthodox' Christianity provided a rationale for avoiding meat on the part of those who wanted to keep the soul untainted by things (literally) `of the flesh' - a rationale that endured into the Middle Ages in the dietary practice of the (mercilessly persecuted) Bogomils and Cathars. Only in the modern ... Read More:
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I tried vegetarianism a few years ago, and this book was one of my "readers". It's a fascinating, well-written and erudite book, and kept me with my nose in the pages for an entire camping holiday in France! It didn't work for me, in that I soon started eating meat again and felt much better as a result, but that doesn't detract (for me) from its virtues as a classic and highly-readable book. Vegetarians will no doubt love it, as it confirms everything they believe, but non-veggies can just enjoy a great book that expands the mental horizons and teaches a lot about the human animal. Very persuasive (just not quite persuasive enough for me) and highly-recommended.
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I tried vegetarianism a few years ago, and this book was one of my "readers". It's a fascinating, well-written and erudite book, and kept me with my nose in the pages for an entire camping holiday in France! It didn't work for me, in that I soon started eating meat again and felt much better as a result, but that doesn't detract (for me) from its virtues as a classic and highly-readable book. Vegetarians will no doubt love it, as it confirms everything they believe, but non-veggies can just enjoy a great book that expands the mental horizons and teaches a lot about the human animal. Very persuasive (just not quite persuasive enough for me) and highly-recommended.
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This book was recommended to me when my children were very small.I'm not vegetarian, but wholfood minded. We all loved the home baking recipes for cakes and biscuits that really are GOOD for you and taste SCRUMMY! My children are now in their twenties, but still remember the goodies from Rose Elliot's book. I lent my copy out and never got it back - I NEED another copy!! I want to make crunchy bars and eggless fruit cake again!
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This book was recommended to me when my children were very small.I'm not vegetarian, but wholfood minded. We all loved the home baking recipes for cakes and biscuits that really are GOOD for you and taste SCRUMMY! My children are now in their twenties, but still remember the goodies from Rose Elliot's book. I lent my copy out and never got it back - I NEED another copy!! I want to make crunchy bars and eggless fruit cake again!
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