Books – Food – Organic & Wild food
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New Kitchen Garden by Adam Caplin and Celia Brooks-Brown
Discover how to grow your own herbs, vegetables and fruit organically and harvest them to make delicious healthy meals. Focusing on plants that are easy to grow, Adam Caplin takes an illuminating new look at the delights and challenges of cultivating edibles, showing how they can be grown – on their own in beds and containers, in mixed borders, and decoratively with flowers – for their ornamental as well as their nutritional value. Celia Brooks Brown presents 35 mouthwatering vegetarian recipes – for soups and starters, main courses, salads and light dishes, salsas and chutneys, and sweet things.
Paperback, 144 pp, $39.95. Buy
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Food to Live by: The Earthbound Farm Organic Cookbook by Myra Goodman
Organic food is synonymous with premium quality, deep, rich taste, conscientious farming, and optimum health. It’s what we need to feed our kids and what we deserve to feed ourselves. And no one is doing more to popularise organic food than Myra Goodman, a mother and creative cook, and co-owner of Earthbound Farm, the world’s largest grower and purveyor of organic produce.
In ‘Food to Live By’ – a dazzling full-colour cookbook – Myra Goodman offers an utterly appealing, new casual style of cooking based on using the best ingredients, organic or otherwise.
Paperback, 402 pp, $45.00. Buy
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Naturally by Jo Wood and Jane Graham-Maw
Jo Wood is a former model and wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood. She was inspired to start eating organic food when her self-destructive rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle made her seriously ill – and the change in her health was dramatic. Today Jo is healthy, beautiful and brimming with vitality. She explains the huge benefits of eating organically and describes the diet that brought herself and Ronnie back to health. She details the chemicals (some thought to be cancer-causing) that are used in cosmetics and household products and absorbed through our skin, and tells the reader how they can find organic alternatives.
Hardback, 256 pp, $40.00. Buy
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Esalen Cookbook by Charlie Cassio
The world-renowned Esalen Institute, located on the sacred cliffs above the ocean in Big Sur, California, is a place of peace and beauty, a place where people can contemplate, think, and discover. At the heart of Esalen is its kitchen, where food is made daily from the organic farm on its grounds. Recipes from Moroccan Lamb Stew to Pecan-Encrusted Chicken and Sponges of Love Pancakes to Chocolate Chunk Cookies delight newcomers to Esalen and veterans alike. Many years in the making, Esalen Cookbook is finally here, and features dozens of delicious recipes that emphasize healthy, fresh, and organic ingredients, and food made to satisfy the soul as well as the stomach. Also included are tips on how to make vegetarian versions of these recipes
, 224 pp, $59.95. Buy
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The Organic Cook’s Bible by Jeff Cox
An organic food resource that helps consumers demystify the array of organic ingredients available and learn how best to choose, store, and prepare them includes more than 150 kinds of organic ingredients and 250 inspiring recipes, from meats, poultry, dairy, and eggs to beans, grains, herbs, and spices
Hardback, 560 pp, $54.95. Buy
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Organic Baby and Toddler Cookbook by Lizzie Vann
How to prepare quick, delicious and nutritious meals for your baby and toddler. Fresh, additive-free natural foods are essential for the healthy development of all children. Now every parent can prepare tasty and nutritious meals with the Organic Baby and Toddler Cookbook. Children love Lizzie Vann’s simple and mouthwatering recipes that burst with new tastes, textures and flavours. Including essential nutritional information for each stage of your child’s development – from birth to preschool – this inspiring cookbook is much more than a tempting collection of recipes. It is your guide to introducing your child to healthy eating habits for life.
Paperback, 144 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Organic Super Foods by Michael Van Straten
Paperback, $4.95. Buy
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Food by Laura Buller
Whether you want to learn about what makes organic food different or how your body breaks it down, this guide will show you the inside story of everything edible. See, learn and discover everything about food, from what is healthy to eat and the different ways of cooking, to GM crops and the changing ways we farm livestock. Ages 8+.
Hardback, 72 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Food for Free by Richard Mabey
Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format – ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations. (Note: this is a British title – it may not be as useful in Australia.)
Paperback, 256 pp, $14.95. Buy
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Farmer’s Market Round-The-Seasons Cookbook by Ysanne Spevack
The benefits of organic produce are widely known, and a wide and exciting choice is now available. In this fabulous collection of over 100 recipes, organic expert Ysanne Spevack shows how to make the most of fresh seasonal food from spring to winter. All the recipes – even the dessert ideas – are as delicious as they are healthy, and there are suggestions for all kinds of meals from light lunches to elegant dinner parties.
Paperback, 128 pp, $30.95. Buy
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Fresh and Wild by Ysanne Spevack
This fun, light-hearted organic cookbook looks at household and health management, and how you can improve your life by living ‘green’. Like Nigella’s Domestic Goddess and The River Cottage Cookbook, the 100 recipes are accompanied by fascinating stories and details – a real social, historical and geographical smorgasbord for any food lover. The sort of recipe book which makes a great armchair read. Contains tips useful to newcomers and committed organic consumers alike, such as: – choosing produce for ideal taste, according to appearance and texture – buying, storage and preparation for tonight’s meal and beyond – supplements and herbs — cooking for babies and toddlers – different dietary needs and guidelines, (e.g. wheat and dairy-free).
Paperback, 368 pp, $30.95. Buy
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The Organic Baby and Toddler Cookbook by Daphne Lambert
A comprehensive but easy-to-follow nutrition guide for babies from weaning to toddlerhood (four to six months to three years old). It recommends a seasonal, mainly raw wholefood organic diet, and advises on how to achieve optimum health for babies and toddlers
Paperback, 128 pp, $26.95. Buy
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The Elder: In History, Myth and Cookery by Ria Loohuizen
The elder is a tree or bush for which humanity has found a use for each and every part: the leaf, the bark, the wood or branch, the flower and finally, the berry or fruit. Some of these functions, or associations, are both mythic and grounded in superstition: that the elder encourages the fertility of cattle for instance; or its relation to witchcraft; or its place in Celtic folklore. Others are most nearly medicinal: it is essential to the classical and medieval physician. And, of course, it may be eaten and drunk. Loohuizen has pursued the elder into every corner of history, literature and kitchen usefulness. In an evocative text, she explores its meaning to early physicians, its place in mythology and folklore, its occurrence in literatu
Paperback, 140 pp, $42.95. Buy
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Your Organic Kitchen by Jesse Ziff Cool
This guide to organic food includes 160 recipes for all kinds of delicious, completely organic dishes, complete with the author’s thoughts on the organic philosophy and information on organic companies across the US.
Paperback, 304 pp, $32.95. Buy
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The Joy of Organic Cookery by Gilli Davies
Ordinary recipe books don’t take account of the different techniques required due to the more intense flavours of organic ingredients and this book of quick-and-easy ingrediants brings people the possibility of enjoying flavours from the best of ingredients.
Paperback, 194 pp, $39.95. Buy
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Go Organic! by Bob Flowerdew
Bob Flowerdew gives advice on how to make your organic garden more fertile and self-sufficient, by letting nature do the work. Avoid common pests and diseases by choosing the right kind of plants and encouraging the right kind of wildlife for pesticide-free gardens.
Paperback, 140 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild by Antonio Carluccio
This volume give expression to Antonio Carluccio’s years of interest in and knowledge of wild food, from stinging nettles to crayfish. Here he revels in the natural bounty of the woods, fields, hedgerows and seas, and creates 120 dishes using foods that are freely available, not cultivated by man.
Hardback, 224 pp, $76.95. Buy
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Food for Free by Richard Mabey
A guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered in the wild in Britain, this book explores the history and folklore of the foods as well as explaining how we identify them and the best ways to cook and eat them. This reissue contains new recipes and arranges the foods by seasons.
Paperback, 192 pp, $43.95. Buy
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The Organic Food Sourcebook by Elaine Marie Lipson
This comprehensive reference explains the important health and environmental benefits of organic foods, detailing where to find and buy them on a budget, and how “organic” differs from other “eco-labels”.
Paperback, 176 pp, $34.95. Buy
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Super Organic Food by Michael Van Straten
This sourcebook of organic food explains all aspects of why we should buy organic as opposed to non-organic foods. It also features a range of simple, healthy recipes designed to make the most of generally available natural organic ingredients.
Paperback, 128 pp, $41.95. Buy
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