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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
by
Sally Fallon
This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Sally Fallon dispels the myths of the current low-fat fad in this practic...more
Paperback, 674 pages
Published
April 8th 2003
by New Trends Publishing
(first published 1995)
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My stepmother gave me this book for my birthday. Looking it over at first I thought-- "Wow, she thinks I'm a spelt-eating, raw-milk drinking, conspiracy theorist lunatic." This book begins with 80 pages of single space size 10 font INFORMATION-- about how the USDA, the American Cancer Association, and your pediatritian are all part of a sinister alliance to give you cancer, heart disease, cavities, and arthritis, and about the vast conspiracy of misinformation in the health and food world, and m...more
I am a reformed vegan. I will say this again and again with no shame. I was a longtime vegetarian who went vegan after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. I thought I was eating "cleaner" and "healthier". I guess I did feel morally superior but physically I felt like crap and I never felt any relief from autimmune disease flare-ups. Then I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I felt like my body was turning against me even though I thought I was healthy. After finding out t...more
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May 26, 2011
Lucinda
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5 of 5 stars
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Anyone who eats! Especially vegetarians!
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As a child I lived in the city, playing outside, watching a lot of tv and chasing down the ice cream truck until my dad remarried when I was 8 and we moved to a small farm. On that farm, our family ate EXACTLY how she teaches in this book. We milked our cow and goats and drank raw milk. We raised and butchered our own cow, pigs and chickens. My step-mom made us eat liver (organs) and lacto-fermented foods like sauerkraut and pickled veggies. She was German but now I am wondering if she lived by...more
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Mar 14, 2008
Krista
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Following Fallon's guidelines for NT made me very sick and I am doing much better now that I've found my own, individual, pathway for nutrition and health. Don't get me wrong-I keep NT as a resource because Fallon has invaluable info (and preparations that I continue to use) concerning bone broths, soaking, sprouting, and lactic fermentation. But the emphasis on fatty red and organ meats, dairy, and huge amounts of saturated fats (healthy though they can be when not eaten in excess)were making m...more
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I came upon this book three years ago at Barnes and Noble. I read it, sitting in the bookstore, leaning against the bookshelves over the course of a few weeks, while my kids were at preschool for an hour. Fallon puts together a very interesting book though she isn't an anthropologist, a researcher, or a very good chef (though some of her salads are delicious).
She denounces modern food preparation methods, including the pressure cooker and the microwave in favor of old-fashioned methods of preser...more
She denounces modern food preparation methods, including the pressure cooker and the microwave in favor of old-fashioned methods of preser...more
This book inspired me to become a nutrition consultant. It's a must-read. The first part of the book discusses nutrition concepts, and the second part presents a plethora of recipes. Don't worry if you are vegetarian; while Fallon focuses much of her time on meats, there is plenty of other information to be gleaned from this volume.
Wow! This book is seriously challenging my notion of good food and a healthy diet. Just getting into it, but I think many of her ideas are right on: lacto-fermentaion, sprouted grains, cultured dairy products, meat - especially organs, and real butter! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when, over a bowl of my homemade granola, I read the intro to the chapter on whole grains: "Nor do we recommend granola, a popular "health" food made from grains subjected only to dry heat and therefore extrem...more
This is another good foundation book if you're looking at eating traditional foods. She talks a lot about culturing foods to encourage enzyme growth which promotes good digestion and gut flora.
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.
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, kimch...more
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.
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, kimch...more
As a cookbook, its ok. It has a few odd and interesting recipes, but nothing really that jumps out as memorable.
As for the rest. Its starts out by trashing fad diets while trying strongly to encourage you to believe it isn't a fad diet itself. Then rumbles on into telling you that packaged, prepared food is bad for you, you're gonna die of malnutrition. Packaged, prepared ingredients are bad for you, you're gonna die from malnutrition. Your only chance is to get hard to find and expensive raw in...more
As for the rest. Its starts out by trashing fad diets while trying strongly to encourage you to believe it isn't a fad diet itself. Then rumbles on into telling you that packaged, prepared food is bad for you, you're gonna die of malnutrition. Packaged, prepared ingredients are bad for you, you're gonna die from malnutrition. Your only chance is to get hard to find and expensive raw in...more
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The joy in this tome is the encouragment I received to go beyond my notions about diet and preparation and to consider, then put into practice, pretty logical and sound health concepts. Basically, this book argues that we should incorporate a variety of quality fats, fermented foods, raw dairy, and organ meats to our diets for optimal mental and physical health, for us and the generations proceding. Party! As a warning, though, Nourishing Traditions is really bound up in a kind of disturbing med...more
Jun 23, 2011
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BIG book with lots of information and I have not even gotten close to the recipes yet! This book was recommended by Dr. Terry Wahls who has overcome her MS (wheelchair bound, now biking and horseback riding) through diet and electrical stimulation used to retrain and rebuild nerves and muscles.
I expect this book is going to be a prominent fixture in my kitchen as I work through the post-CCSVI procedure period.
Wow! Great recipes, great information. I am done reading and thus far have made severa...more
I expect this book is going to be a prominent fixture in my kitchen as I work through the post-CCSVI procedure period.
Wow! Great recipes, great information. I am done reading and thus far have made severa...more
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This book set our whole childcare co-op afire, and it spurned many discussions within CSA membership. I and friends with young children did a significant re-design of our homecooked menus. Rather than feeling like compromised or failed vegans we began to recognize the value of omnivore eating with heavy vegetarian influences.
There is much value in this book. The first 100 pages is theory that has enough citations that you could continue (and some did) to study the precursor scientific papers. Th...more
There is much value in this book. The first 100 pages is theory that has enough citations that you could continue (and some did) to study the precursor scientific papers. Th...more
First, I want to say that I wholeheartedly disagree with the basic views and principals of the Weston A. Price movement. A high fat diet is not healthy and there is no medical/nutritional conspiracy to hide "the truth" away from you.
Most of the nutritional advice in this book is pure quackery and runs contrary to years of scientific research in the fields of medicine and nutrition. Some of the advice might even be dangerous: raw meat for babies for example. Stay away from the section on infant...more
Most of the nutritional advice in this book is pure quackery and runs contrary to years of scientific research in the fields of medicine and nutrition. Some of the advice might even be dangerous: raw meat for babies for example. Stay away from the section on infant...more
The problem with the diet gurus is that they tend to work up a schematic nutritional world view that rests on a few primary shibboleths. This is then packaged and patented as though the whole thing is self evident. The problem with Fallon is that she takes this on as a major assertion that she is ever so right and the alternative options are ever so wrong. I don't think that is the best method. It is simply food fadishness in disguise.
This is a recipe book with a long introductory essay justify...more
This is a recipe book with a long introductory essay justify...more
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 relation...more
Any book that contains the word "dictocrats" in the title should probably be read with a wary eye. This is a rant in the form of a cookbook, based on the work of the Weston Price Foundation. I'm sympathetic to many of the ideas here (especially the idea of eating natural, organic, unprocessed foods) but I think the authors use questionable science to back up many of the more out-there ideas. There's some serious cherry picking of references here. If it convinces people to eat healthier, to eat c...more
I have always been conscious of nutrition and health, but this book was a real eye-opener! While I'll admit that Fallon is a bit of a fanatic and that some of her "research" may be questionable, my gut tells me that, overall, she is correct. Certainly, she gives us all something to think about.
The basic premise of the book is that people (and Americans in particular) need to get back to our ancestral methods of growing, preparing, and eating food. She blames a myriad of health problems (from the...more
The basic premise of the book is that people (and Americans in particular) need to get back to our ancestral methods of growing, preparing, and eating food. She blames a myriad of health problems (from the...more
Sep 19, 2009
Elizabeth
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Table of Contents
Preface xv
Introduction
Politically Correct Nutrition
Fats
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Milk & Milk Products
Vitamins
Minerals
Enzymes
Salt, Spices & Additives
Beverages
51 (5)
About Food Allergies and Special Diets
56 (7)
Parting Words
63 (1)
Guide to Food Selection
64 (2)
A Word on Equipment
66 (3)
Kitchen Tips & Hints
69 (3)
References
72 (7)
Mastering the Basics
79 (82)
Cultured Dairy Products
80 (9)
Fermented Vegetables &...more
Table of Contents
Preface xv
Introduction
Politically Correct Nutrition
Fats
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Milk & Milk Products
Vitamins
Minerals
Enzymes
Salt, Spices & Additives
Beverages
51 (5)
About Food Allergies and Special Diets
56 (7)
Parting Words
63 (1)
Guide to Food Selection
64 (2)
A Word on Equipment
66 (3)
Kitchen Tips & Hints
69 (3)
References
72 (7)
Mastering the Basics
79 (82)
Cultured Dairy Products
80 (9)
Fermented Vegetables &...more
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I haven't read this cover-to-cover (it's a cookbook!) but I did finish the intro chapters on nutrition and skimmed most of the recipes. It's a good overview of a lot of the same information you see in books like Good Calories Bad Calories, albeit from a different perspective, and it's not so rigorously scientific. A lot of the info can also be read online at the Weston A. Price Foundation website.
The thing that sticks with me the most is the miracle Fallon paints of butter from spring grass fed...more
The thing that sticks with me the most is the miracle Fallon paints of butter from spring grass fed...more
Some of the information on nutrients and oils is interesting and informative. However, Fallon does use outdated and poorly constructed studies to try to convince her readers that you will be healthier if you eat more meat and lard. I agree that fats are fine and that reducing fat is not healthy, BUT I think fats like avocado, coconut, and olive-based fats/oils (for example) are much healthier than fats like pig and cow fat. I think there are more than enough studies that are far more convincing...more
This is certainly not like most cookbooks. Ms. Fallon Morell was the editor of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Health Journal, before co-founding the Weston A. Price Foundation. Ms. Morell is also a gourmet chef so you don't need to worry about bland food in this health cookbook! Most of the recipies are haute cuisine, but you can easily use less herbs or even none with many and the food still tastes great. It is full-fat traditional food! (Yep it IS healthy ~ if the food comes from a f...more
Solid nutritional advice from the traditional perspective. People studied by Weston Price might not have been wealthy by Western standards but at the same time they were far healthier (both physically and mentally).
I took away a star for not letting go of grains. Or at least acknowledging that even whole grains, fermented or not, are not a good choice for metabolically damaged people (pretty much everyone in the western world these days, even kids). Not to mention it's just too damn hard and ti...more
I took away a star for not letting go of grains. Or at least acknowledging that even whole grains, fermented or not, are not a good choice for metabolically damaged people (pretty much everyone in the western world these days, even kids). Not to mention it's just too damn hard and ti...more
I love this book. I'm so bummed I took it to a friends' house to cook with and left it in my paper grocery bag and it got mistaken for recycling....*pout*. It was my most referenced reference book, probably (so much so that I might splurge for another), with loads of info on every vegetable and what vitamins and minerals it is rich in and what each of those vitamins and minerals does for you, and loads of info on diseases and ailments and what you should eat to get rid of them and oodles of yumm...more
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It seems strange to review a cookbook, or add it to my list of literature for that matter, but I will count this among my books because there is more context than recipes: On every single page in the margin is a passage about food, some of it coming from current health magazines, some of it from fiction, some of it from health guides from the mid-19th century, some that came from who-knows-where. I don’t know exactly what Fallon is up to here, but the concept interests me of having so much infor...more
Sep 27, 2011
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This is a book I first read about in another book (The Maker’s Diet by Jordan Rubin). It gives the “how to” of Rubin’s dietary suggestions. I checked Nourishing Traditions out of the library again and again and realized that I could not live without it so bought full price via special order at the bookstore. That is the only time I have done that for a book. Now I can see it is almost half the price on Amazon, but I do not regret the money because it is such an incredible reference book. It expl...more
This book forever changed how I think about food. I was already interested in Traditional Foods by the time I bought it, having recently left lifelong vegetarianism. This is way more than a cookbook - it's at least an equal part a nutrition encyclopedia. That said, every recipe in here is from scratch - and scratch doesn't just mean from whole ingredients, it means that there are a whole bunch of recipes that take overnight if not weeks. Make your mayonnaise. Make your own sourdough culture, kef...more
Absolutely one of the most inspiring books I've read in QUITE some time - especially considering that it's basically a cookbook. And the subtitle is correct - it is a challenge to everything you "think" you know about nutrition. I'm a self-professed (other people think so too ;)) health nut, but this book really caused me to stop and THINK about the differences in what we might consider healthy, and what your body actually needs to function.
As a "recovering vegan", this book laid out some specta...more
As a "recovering vegan", this book laid out some specta...more
My main reason for reading this book was to find more ways of fermenting food, since that is something I'm very interested in. I only had a chance to try a few of the recipes before it had to be returned to the library, but they were mostly pretty good. The constant quoting from Weston Price got old really fast, but if you ignore the sidebars the book is fine. I did enjoy the "guess the processed food from its ingredient list" puzzles.
This four star rating is subject to change after I actually try one of the recipes, but in the meantime, I have to admit I enjoyed reading Nourishing Traditions, and I can't say that I often choose to read cookbooks.
Are Sally Fallon's ideas kosher? No idea. There are almost 200 footnotes, and I'm in no mood to check them all just to make a sandwich. But for all her ranting against largely respected groups like the American Medical Association, Sloan-Kettering, etc. there is the fact that we as a...more
Are Sally Fallon's ideas kosher? No idea. There are almost 200 footnotes, and I'm in no mood to check them all just to make a sandwich. But for all her ranting against largely respected groups like the American Medical Association, Sloan-Kettering, etc. there is the fact that we as a...more
I love this book. A friend of mine, a chiropractor, recommended it to me about 10 years ago. Part textbook, part cookbook, when I first got it I spent days perusing it. "Listen to this," I kept shouting to my husband. It just made so much sense. This book has taken me on a wonderful journey and taught me so much. I love spending time in the kitchen where I can make things brew and bubble and ferment and rise. It brings out my "inner Ma" (as in Little House in the Big Woods!). I don't follow Sall...more
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