Product Description

Everyone 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 flavorful. With her weeknight-friendly dishes, 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, SUPER NATURAL COOKING is the new wholesome way to eat, using real-world ingredients to get out-of-this-world results.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2943 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 215 pages

Review
"At last a cookbook is coming that makes natural food appear glamorous and desirable..." -- United Press international, February 21, 2007

Swanson goes a long way toward helping "whole" foods shed their stale, hippie stigma... -- Salon.com, March 6, 2007

The evocative photographs, most of which were taken by Swanson, lure you into the book. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 10, 2007

From the Publisher
* An inspiringly stylish introduction to nutritional superfoods, with an emphasis on whole grains, natural sweeteners, healthy oils, and colorful phytonutrient-packed ingredients. * Features 80 recipes, a comprehensive pantry chapter, and 100 stunning full-color photos. * Shows how to build a whole-foods pantry with nutrition-rich ingredients like almond oil, pomegranate molasses, and mesquite flour--each explained in detail.

About the Author
Photographer, cookbook author, and graphic designer HEIDI SWANSON is the creator of the award-winning culinary websites 101 Cookbooks and Mighty Foods. Her work has been featured on NPR and in national and international publications, including THE WASHINGTON POST, VEGETARIAN TIMES, TIME, and LIFE. She lives in SAN FRANCISCO.

Customer Reviews

Haven't seen the book.....sent it as a gift.
My friend who received this book for her birthday said it was a wonderful book with beautiful photography but I haven't seen the book myself. I love the authors food blog and was motivated by that to order the book for a present.

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 with whole wheat and all natural flours and grains, and all natural oils and sweeteners. Now I reach for them when I cook, and I've come to appreciate even the process of cooking as something to enjoy and celebrate.

The actual recipes I've tried thus far are the amaranth seed biscuits (which I screwed up the first time; my own fault -- but the second time, they were delicious), the amaranth ginger shortbread, the mesquite chocolate chip cookies and the polenta-style teff wedges, which I've made a few times. It was all wonderful, homey and delicious. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to eat healthy and make a life-style change while doing it.