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| Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats | 
 enlarge | Author: Sally Fallon
Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  321 reviews
Sales Rank: 540
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised and Updated 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0967089735
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780967089737
ASIN: 0967089735
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 GOOD INFO, VAGUE RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS September 29, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The author does a good job of documenting what is wrong with our diets and why. However, the recipes are extremely vague. For example, the crepe recipe on page 481 says to "heat a heavy skillet" but does not specify what temperature or setting. She also says "beat several minutes" which is open to interpretation. On the organ meats recipes, this may be a first for many people and getting these organs can be an ordeal, even for a farmer who raises meat like myself. As the butchers have to be specifically asked for these parts. In addition, those not living near the ocean or fresh, safe seafood like those in the Bible belt cannot partake in these recipes like Roe. And how many people out there have access to Venison, and beef heart, veal or lamb kidneys, sweetbreads and brains all at the same time? One of her recipes calls for 2 quarts of chicken stock that you are supposed to make yourself. It calls for a whole chicken or the parts and about $10 of other ingredients. Unless you are a Wall Street tycoon or have infinite amounts of money, many recipes in this book seems geared toward chefs, not average people.
 A Little Quirky September 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought I knew a lot about nutrition until I read this book. While some of the recipes seem very strange, "Make Your own Whey!" and some ingredients I have never been able to find, the book has been very helpful, especially the section on feeding babies, and the tidbits of information in the sidebars is great.
 Finally, real information! September 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions is fantastic. Finally a book that explains fats, proteins, sugars, the lot and in language I can understand without needing a diploma in chemistry! I haven't tried many of the recipes yet but have changed our families eating habits and we are all enjoying flavoursome food again, just like when we were small! How quickly we get sucked into the supermarket ready to eat mentality. Thank you!
Back to traditions September 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book that reviews healthier traditions of many cultures and of our past that covers preparation of foods that are healthier than our modern culture. Something we seriously need to look at and implement in this toxic culture we have created. I commend her book. It is a great reference book as well as recipe book. Everyone whould have this in their health library.
 Another review August 31, 2008
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
As one other commenter mentioned, circular reasoning abounds with the teaching in this cookbook. Circular reasoning ALSO abounds in the people who follow the teachings in this book. Those of us who dare to question any of the "arguments" Fallon provides are marginialized.
The teachings her followers subscribe to are blogged about with great "authority" (as if they themselves were expert nutritionists), and the followers of her teachings treat those who question them with exclusivity against others who disagree with certain of her "findings" by "unpublished studies". Much of the expert advice in her book have been addressed here.
There seems to be an aire of "heightened spiritual salvation by nutrition" in many of Fallon's followers. "Their god is their belly."
Someone mentioned MLM's. That was the first thing that I thought of, too. Many of those MLM's have come a knocking to try to convince me that their exclusive nutritional food was going to change my life. It changed my wallet, is all. And, for what it's worth, I've had respected, nutritional teachings by REAL nutritionists since 1978, and some of what Fallon teaches "may not" harm people, but some of it certainly can, and is based on unconvincing folklore. This cookbook is one that gets a once read-over (from a loaned copy), but then be sure to go back to basics without Fallon's (or her follower's) advice for healthy eating and nutrition.
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