My passion for real food, real cooking, real baking and real healing and the knowledge behind them all has exploded.
My parents gifted me with cast iron and two (of the four) books for Christmas.
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I’ll be honest, I’m a little intimidated by cast iron. It just seems like a whole new “breed” of cooking and baking for me, but eventually I’d love to replace all of our cooking and baking pots and pans with cast iron. Why? Because doing so will help ditch even more chemicals, and that is one of my 2014 Unprocessed Goals.
To help with this intimidation and my passion to learn everything I can about real food cooking and baking, I’ll be reading, studying and learning even more…all year long, with 4 carefully selected books.
4 books in one year might seem like a trivial amount. That is, until you see how thick these are….
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4 {Real Food. Cooking. Baking. Healing} Books I’m Reading in 2014
- Cooking for Geeks. This is a “real science, great hacks, and good food” book. As I skimmed through it immediately, I knew this was the prefect book for my nerdy cooking ambitions. The book is chalk full of everything from kitchen organization to flavors and ingredients, baking variables and chemical interactions. Cooking and baking sound knowledge is the key to real kitchen success. I’m about to learn it.
- The Science of Good Cooking (Cook’s Illustrated Cookbooks). I think the front cover verbiage says it all, “Master 50 simple concepts to enjoy a lifetime of success in the kitchen.” This 475+ page book is packed with science. Cooking and baking comes down to science, and the more I can understand about it, the better. The first time I opened the book, I landed on page 373 where there was a whole diagram on “Butter 101.” I think I instantly fell in love.
- Grow Organic, Cook Organic. I’m not interested in making it any sort of immediate goal to grow all my own organic food. At some point, I’d love to start. For now, I want to learn about it. This book is packed with information about organic foods, and it is accompanied by a ton of recipes. I’m in need of some new inspiration!
- Healing Foods for Special Diets. I already know there is a ton in the book that I will not agree with. But lest what anyone things, I always like to hear out all sides. Furthermore, the book is packed with information about a ton of different foods and other diseases I’m not as familiar with (i.e. diabetes, cancer and arthritis). The more I can understand about food’s healing powers, the better.
Reading these books won’t be enough. As I read them, I’ll do 2 things:
- Share the information with you via my blog, Twitter and Facebook (and of course share/apply the ideas daily with my clients)
- Develop new recipes using the ideas and information presented
Knowledge is power. Healing the body with food and lifestyle vs. drugs and medication is my passion. I can’t wait to dive in!
Have you read any of these books? Thoughts? Interested in reading any with me?
Love your guts,
SKH
