Bean Book Club
12 Best Foods Cookbook - Over 200 Recipes Featuring the 12 Healthiest Foods
By Dana Jacobi
May 2005
ISBN: 1579549659
"Enjoying healthy eating should be easy," says foodie and cookbook author Dana Jacobi. And, many foods that taste great also are healthful, including beans and other legumes. These two companion books feature a dozen of the healthiest foods. Joining beans, the other 11 “superfoods” include broccoli, blueberries, chocolate, edamame, oatmeal, onions, salmon, soy, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and walnuts. Yet, working these good-for-you foods into real everyday eating still challenges many health-conscious people.
The Essential Best Foods Cookbook - 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and Most Delicious Foods
By Dana Jacobi
368 pages
April 2008
ISBN: 1594866685
Following on the author’s success with her best-selling 12 Best Foods Cookbook—Over 200 Recipes Featuring the 12 Healthiest Foods, she now offers up to her fans The Essential Best Foods Cookbook - 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and Most Delicious Foods. As in her first book, her latest cookbook, 225 Irresistible Recipes, includes recipes touting beans’ and other legumes’ many healthful properties.
In both of her tomes, Jacobi selects foods that offer the optimum combination of nutrients, versatility, and voluptuousness, then uses them to create recipes that delight the senses. Picking foods with maximum vitality insures that her choices offer “more nutritional bang for their caloric buck.”
A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization - The path food has taken through history is a fairly straightforward one; the space which it occupies today could not be more fraught.
By Kenneth F. Kiple
Published April, 2007 by Cambridge University Press.
384 pages, hardback.
ISBN: 978-0-521-79353-7
Food, at its most basic, fuels the human body. At its most refined, food has been elevated to a position of fine art. This sweeping narrative covers both ends of the spectrum, reminding us to be grateful for and delighted in a grain of wheat, as well as making us aware of the many questions that remain unanswered about what lies ahead.
The SuperFoodsRx Diet - 5 Steps to Lose Weight by Adding SuperFoods
By Dr. Wendy Bazilian
Published Jan 2008 by Rodale Press
Hardback
Dr. Wendy Bazilian is a doctor of public health and nutrition, registered dietitian, owner of Bazilian’s Health Clinic in San Diego, and the Nutrition Specialist at the renowned Golden Door spa and fitness resort in Escondido, CA.
Drs. Wendy Bazilian and Steven Pratt, authors of provide a program that fits the individual and focuses on science and practicality for busy people who want to lose excess pounds and improve their health, too. Losing weight takes work, but it doesn’t have to cost you your health, your social life or your happiness. In deciding on a diet, choose to have your health and weight loss too.