Cooking Well: IBS: Over 100 Easy Recipes for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Plus Other Digestive DiseasesIncluding Crohn's, Celiac, and Colitis

by Dede Cummings

Enjoy Delicious Recipes Specially Designed for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Other Digestive Diseases

Irritable bowel syndrome and digestive diseases (such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis) are complex disorders accompanied by a myriad of symptoms, which can make daily living very difficult. While there is not yet a cure for these conditions, a healthy, balanced diet can help alleviate suffering and enable you to enjoy a healthy, productive life.

Whether you have a digestive disease yourself or are looking to cook for a friend or family member with digestive problems, Cooking Well: IBS offers a varied selection of recipes created specifically to help aid digestion and improve gastrointestinal health.

Cooking Well: IBS also includes:
• An overview on IBS and other digestive diseases
• Lifestyle tips for reducing symptoms and improving overall wellness
• Dietary suggestions to promote healthy digestion and reduce flare-ups

Some of the over 100 easy and delicious recipes featured in Cooking Well: IBS include Gluten-Free Banana Granola Pancakes, Butternut Parsnip Soup, Chickpea Salad with Lemon and Parmesan, Cracked Crab with Curry and Ginger Sauce, Wild Rice Casserole, Chicken Tarragon, Chocolate Mousse with Raspberry Sauce, and more.

The Cooking Well series is specially designed to augment the treatment and symptom management of your disease through the benefits of specific, nutrient-rich foods. Featuring delicious and healthful recipes that are easy to prepare as well as helpful tips and information about the role of nutrition for your condition, this book includes everything you need to improve your daily functioning and enjoy your life to the fullest.

Genres: Cooking

168 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2011

About the author

Dede Cummings is a writer, award-winning book designer, publisher, and former commentator for Vermont Public Radio. At Middlebury College, she was the recipient of the Mary Dunning Thwing Award and attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as an undergraduate fellow. In 1991, she received a fellowship to study with Hayden Carruth at the Bennington Writers’ Workshop. In 2013, she returned as a poetry contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has been published in Mademoiselle, Connotation Press, MomEgg Review, Green Mountains Review, among others, and anthologized in Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry and Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection. She was a Discover/The Nation poetry semi-finalist. In 2016, she was awarded a writer’s grant from the Vermont Studio Center. Her first poetry collection entitled To Look Out From was the winner of the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and was published in 2017. Her second poetry collection, The Meeting Place, was published in 2020 by Salmon Poetry. Dede lives in Vermont, where she designs books and is the founder and publisher of www.greenwriterspress.com, a global press devoted to environmental activism, social justice, and sustainable publishing.

Dede lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, in a house built by her husband, Steve Carmichael. They have three children, Sam, Emma, and Joey. After Dede's most recent hospital stay and surgery for Crohn's disease in 2006, she began hiking the Long Trail (the length of Vermont) in one week sections, beginning to realize a long-term goal that had been put off due to illness.

Living With Crohn's & Colitis was her first published book. Her second book, "Cooking Well: IBS" came out October 25, 2011, and it is a description of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), and a helpful guide with lifestyle tips and over 100 recipes. The author was first diagnosed with IBS in her 20s, and it is her hope that by reading these books, people will become educated and informed about how lifestyle and diet are key to maintaining health in today's world. Book Number Three in this series is The Living With Crohn's & Colitis Cookbook.

Dede has published organic and holistic lifestyle series for Skyhorse, including The Medicinal Gardening Handbook, The Organic Gardening Handbook, and The Good Living Guide to Beekeeping.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the recipes included in this book contain ingredients that are incompatible with an IBS diet, or any sensitive stomach diet, for that matter.