River Cottage Cookbook
Author: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
First published in the United Kingdom in 2001, The River Cottage Cookbook quickly became a hit among food cognoscenti around the world. Now tailored for American cooks, this authoritative and animated ode to eating well is one part manifesto and one part guidebook for choosing and storing food grown in the garden, butchered from prize animals, or foraged or caught locally. Fearnley-Whittingstall writes with humor, wit, and clarity, bringing American readers what his legions of British fans have enthusiastically embraced: the best techniques and recipes for getting the most out of simple, superior food, while supporting the environment, vibrant local economies, and resourceful use of plants and animals.
Publishers Weekly
Readers in search of a single tome illustrating not only how to deal with a pig carcass but also how to prepare a Shrimp and Sea Lettuce Tempura need look no further. English carnivore extraordinaire Fearnley-Whittingstall (The River Cottage Meat Book ) has revised his 2001 answer to the Whole Earth Cookbook into this new, slightly Americanized, edition. There are 95 healthy recipes, everything from Strawberry Sandwiches to Nettle Soup, Crispy Pig's Ears to Pigeon Pitas (yes, real pigeons), but the work is primarily an intense and heartfelt almanac of raising and eating organic plants and animals without the intrusive use of slaughterhouses, packaging plants or grocery stores. For cooks with an acre or two of land, or with access to woodlands, there are priceless lessons in raising sheep (a good ram is hard to find), choosing the right cow (bright eyes and lumpless udders) and picking the perfect wild mushroom. For city dwellers, the author, pictured on the cover with a plump piglet under each arm and later shown happily tearing apart a rabbit, might just be the Edgar Allan Poe of poultry. As a benchmark, somewhere between horror and hors d'oeuvre, consider this typical set of instructions before delving into the text: "A chicken is not ready to kill for the table until you think it is. Pick it up, feel its weight, and feel its breast. If it feels tempting, then you should kill it if you want to." (May)
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Fearnley-Whittingstall is a well-known British cookbook author and food writer, and he has been the host of several popular TV series, some of them filmed at River Cottage, his farm in Dorset. An American edition of his River Cottage Meat Book was published last year, and now comes this Americanized version of his first River Cottage cookbook for his growing number of U.S.-based fans. Fearnley-Whittingstall is committed to organic food, humanely raised livestock, and sustainable agricultural practices, and his hope is that this book will encourage more people to become aware of the source of the food they eat-as well as increase their pleasure in eating good food. The book is divided into four sections-Garden, Livestock, Fish, and Hedgerow (wild game and foraged food)-and each one includes practical advice on all sorts of topics, from starting a vegetable garden to raising pigs to smoking or pickling fish, along with recipes. The author writes with passion and humor, and his unusual book will be useful as both a reference and a cookbook. Highly recommended.
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The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Children and Others with Epilepsy
Author: John M Freeman
Sometimes called the "miracle diet," the ketogenic diet has helped doctors treat difficult-to-control epileptic seizures in thousands of children. Coauthored by two respected Johns Hopkins neurologists, The Ketogenic Diet continues to be the definitive guide for parents, physicians, and dieticians wanting to implement this strict diet. This fourth edition is extensively updated to reflect current advances in understanding how the diet works, how it should be used, and the future role of the diet as a treatment. The best-seller also includes sample meal plans, a food database, a section on how the Atkins and modified ketogenic diet can be used as alternative diets to control epilepsy, and much more.
Yevgenya A. Kaydanova
This book contains all the facts about the ketogenic diet, and shares parents' and physicians' treatment experiences in children with ketogenic diet. This edition is completely revised and updated and includes data of new studies and laboratory resources, new and improved menus, and revised instructions for diet calculations. The first edition was published in 1994. The purpose is to provide comprehensive information and to answer the question about ketogenic diet based upon advances in understanding of scientific basis and analysis of clinical data that has taken place in the last decade. This book is written for doctors and dietitians who treat children with epilepsy and for parents of children with seizure disorders. It also may be interesting for in neurology and pediatric residents. This book covers the broad spectrum of seizures related to ketogenic diet including historical overviews, scientific basis of curative effect of ketogenic diet, and practical applications. The best aspect is that it provides detailed and comprehensive guidelines for implementation of ketogenic diet as treatment option for uncontrolled seizure disorders children. The unique features are appendixes that include food databases and critical pathway charts. This is an excellent handbook not only for those physicians and parents who are naive in using the ketogenic diet for the treatment of children with epilepsy, but also for those who are already experienced in this field. All recommendations are made based upon analysis of latest clinical and scientific data. This is definite advantage of this book compared to its previous editions.
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Reviewer: Yevgenya Kaydanova, MD, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This book contains all the facts about the ketogenic diet, and shares parents' and physicians' treatment experiences in children with ketogenic diet. This edition is completely revised and updated and includes data of new studies and laboratory resources, new and improved menus, and revised instructions for diet calculations. The first edition was published in 1994.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide comprehensive information and to answer the question about ketogenic diet based upon advances in understanding of scientific basis and analysis of clinical data that has taken place in the last decade.
Audience: This book is written for doctors and dietitians who treat children with epilepsy and for parents of children with seizure disorders. It also may be interesting for in neurology and pediatric residents.
Features: This book covers the broad spectrum of seizures related to ketogenic diet including historical overviews, scientific basis of curative effect of ketogenic diet, and practical applications. The best aspect is that it provides detailed and comprehensive guidelines for implementation of ketogenic diet as treatment option for uncontrolled seizure disorders children. The unique features are appendixes that include food databases and critical pathway charts.
Assessment: This is an excellent handbook not only for those physicians and parents who are naive in using the ketogenic diet for the treatment of children with epilepsy, but also for those who are already experienced in this field. All recommendations are made based upon analysis of latest clinical and scientific data. This is definite advantage of this book compared to its previous editions.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Dedication | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet | 3 |
| 2 | Answers to Common Questions | 24 |
| 3 | An Historical Overview of the Ketogenic Diet | 33 |
| 4 | Initiating the Ketogenic Diet | 53 |
| 5 | Fine-Tuning the Diet: The Key to Success | 70 |
| 6 | Making It Work at Home and on the Road | 96 |
| 7 | Going Off the Diet | 110 |
| 8 | Calculating the Ketogenic Diet | 119 |
| 9 | Liquid Formulas and Tube Feedings | 143 |
| 10 | Sample Meal Plans | 153 |
| 11 | Studies and New Data | 183 |
| 12 | Conclusion | 192 |
| A | Medications | 197 |
| B | Johns Hopkins Hospital Nursing Critical Pathways | 205 |
| C | Selected References | 211 |
| D | Food Database | 215 |
| Index | 225 |
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