Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563 EAN: 9781587612756 ISBN: 1587612755 Label: Celestial Arts Manufacturer: Celestial Arts Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 215 Publication Date: 2007-03 Publisher: Celestial Arts Sales Rank: 5374 Studio: Celestial Arts
Product DescriptionEveryone knows that whole foods are much healthier than refined ingredients, but few know how to cook with them in uncomplicated, delicious ways. Using a palette of natural ingredients now widely available in supermarkets, ''Super Natural Cooking'' offers globally inspired, nutritionally packed cuisine that is both gratifying and flavourful. With her weeknight-friendly real-foodie, Heidi Swanson teaches home cooks how to become confident in a whole-foods kitchen by experimenting with alternative flours, fats, grains, sweeteners and more. Including innovative twists on familiar dishes from polenta to chocolate chip cookies.
What Others Say
Good Info
A good book overall. I found the information about how to substitute healthier options for the more commonly used ingredients the most useful. Recipes are pretty simple.
Love this approach to cooking
I think that I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to healthy eating, but still, before getting Super Natural Cooking, I considered items like margarine and fat-free dressings to be healthy. But Heidi Swanson's way makes much more sense -- doesn't it stand to reason that foods that are naturally cultivated would be received and digested by our bodies with far greater ease than factory-made approximations of real food? I for one would now much rather have a homemade amaranth-flour biscuit with real organic butter over a piece of sliced, processed bread with margarine.
It makes even more sense when you take into account that Heidi's recipes are delicious. Following the advice in the book, I have completely restocked my pantry ... Read More
Some Of My Favorite Recipes, All In One Book!
Even if you're not into 'natural' foods, this is a terrific cookbook. Full of gorgeous photography and really delicious recipes (which are easy to make), it's a perfect cookbook if you're wanting to try some healthy foods or even just some different versions of some vegetable side dishes, new salads, etc.
I especially love the Big Curry Noodle Pot recipe, as well as the fantastic brussels sprouts recipe. Everything I've tried (I've tried about 10 or recipes from here) has been delicious. Very inspirational also when trying to decide 'what to cook'.
Great book to get you started!
Here is a cookbook thats based on a solid food philosophy but never sounds preachy. Excellent design and graphics, written as if you were exchanging recipes / meal ideas with a friend. The books includes lots of details without getting too busy, and indeed successfully preserves a sense of serenity. Most importantly, the recipes work well - otsu and the biscotti are my favorites! I can't wait for Heidi's next books and hope they continue to grow in scope and innovation.
Not Exactly Super
The book itself is beautiful- I love the photography throughout- but, unfortunately, most of the recipes aren't a hit with me. It's (obviously) a vegetarian cookbook, but I guess I was hoping it would contain more vegan recipes (or recipes that could easily be veganized). Because I am vegan, I personally don't find it to be very useful. A friend of mine who recently became vegetarian has Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking and does like several of the recipes in it, so I can see the usefulness for someone who chooses to eat eggs/dairy. To be fair, I have only tried a small handful of the recipes (the ones that are vegan or veganizable), so my disappointment is based more on the fact that it wasn't what I expected it to be.
