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This awesome old cookbook from 1971, The Joy of Eating Natural Foods, by Agnes Toms, has been hanging around on my bookshelf for quite awhile. I picked it up at a thrift store about a year ago, thinking it would be … More
Therapy, behavior modification, maybe even medication. But a cookbook? That’s not something you usually think about as a potential powerful tool for eating disorder recovery. But luckily, registered dietitian Lori Lieberman did. Along with her co-author, Cate Sangster, she’s written Food To Eat, a cookbook specifically dedicated to help those with eating disorders gain back a healthy relationship with eating. We talked to Lori about the book, the importance of online community and how even those of us who haven’t been diagnosed with an eating disorder might able to benefit from changing our thinking about food. More
All-around perfect person and domestic goddess Gwyneth Paltrow is coming out with a new cookbook inspired by her own recent switch to a gluten-free, sugar-free, low-carb diet. A diet that she says makes her family, including husband Chris Martin and children Apple and Moses, hungry. Um? More
Earlier this summer, we riled some feathers by asking vegans which foods they missed the most–and which tempted them to cheat. But, when being honest, plenty of readers confessed that, even though they knew it was cruel and not-great for … More
Philanthropist and entrepreneur and health advocate Cornelia Guest is perhaps not a typical vegan. The daughter of actor, socialite, and fashion icon C.Z. Guest and polo champion Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, she’s about as blue-blooded as they come. But Guest is also an activist–and an animal lover. Which is what inspired her to write her new book, Cornelia Guest’s Simple Pleasures, which blends healthy vegan cooking and baking with high-brown entertaining. More
Need some fresh inspiration for fresh spring produce? These six recently published or upcoming cookbooks offer diverse takes on cooking with spring’s bounty—vegan, Southern, budget-friendly—but share a similar seasonal, simple and DIY approach to healthy eating. More
I really, really wanted to dislike Pinterest—all those crafts and elaborately-decorated cupcakes and the overall Etsy aesthetic. All those brides-to-be pinning shoes and rings and wedding porn. But then I realized how great the site is—easier to use than Tumblr, prettier than old bookmarking sites like del.ic.ious—for keeping track of, sharing and finding new recipes. Plus, a growing number of folks (including men) have been signing up, which has mitigated Pinterest’s cutesy/craftsy reputation and feel somewhat. If your tastes tend more toward avocado gazpacho and beet chips than pretzel turtles and cherry coke cupcakes, here are a few recipe pinboards to follow. More
Brian L. Patton is not a sexy vegan the way that PETA presents sexy vegans. He doesn’t, for example, wear a lettuce bikini. No, Patton is the Sexy Vegan, a joke that started when, after making the switch to a plant-based diet, he started a YouTube series for his friends, which featured him cooking easy vegan recipes. Now, what started out as a plan to lose some weight and make people laugh has turned into a cookbook–and a new philosophy on health. More
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Gwyneth Paltrow insisted on Twitter that she wrote “every word” of her 2011 cookbook, My Father’s Daughter, without the help of a ghostwriter. A New York Times article last week said Gwyneth—along with many other celebrities, chefs and celebrity chefs —don’t write their own cookbooks or even develop and taste all the recipes included. More
This recipe for oven-roasted beets with a winter citrus vinaigrette comes from Grow Cook Eat, a new “garden-to-table handbook” from writer and urban gardener Willi Galloway, with photos from fashion and food photographer Jim Henkens. Subtitled “A Food Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening,” the book also includes recipes and harvesting and storage tips. More
With recipe blogs, websites that curate or crowd-source recipes, and social media tools like Pinterest, savvy cooks can access tons of highly-specialized recipes without ever cracking a cookbook. A search for, say, ‘sugar-free gluten-free vegan banana bread’ will turn up dozens of recipes in seconds. So is the cookbook dead? More
For cookbook lovers, foodies, casual home cooks or anyone with (pun intended) good taste, here are a few holiday gift ideas, ranging from about $10 to $50. Think: Your vegan co-worker, brother-in-law with the exotic sea salt habit, windowsill-gardening friend from grad school, scone-making roommate, significant other’s stocking or your own holiday wish list … More
The Mayo Clinic Diet. The Longevity Diet. The Raw Foods Detox Diet. Pills, potions, cleanses, superfoods. There are so many diet and nutrition books (and their associated tools) out there claiming to provide the one true blueprint for good health; it’s hard for even the healthiest and best-read among us to know what works and what’s bunk. More
