(Part 2) Best organic cooking books according to redditors

Yes!!!! Like the other post says - unless you're an athlete protein isn't really a concern, assuming you eat a fairly balanced, healthy diet. If you are an athlete I can't recommend this book enough. Actually, all of his books are great.

I went vegan over 4 years ago and have never felt better or been healthier in my life! Plus it's nice to know that I'm doing my part to help animals and the planet. Here's a list of some other books/resources that have helped me immensely along the way, for anyone else who might be considering the transition:


Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Oh She Glows (Food Blog)

Keepin' It Kind (Food Blog)

It takes work and is difficult at first, like most things in life that are worthwhile, but I promise you that it is very, very rewarding once you understand that you have made the commitment to live in a healthy and kind way. :)

r/PlantBasedDiet - Great sub with good active members always willing to help!

The Starch Solution - I have read this and follow this. Losing weight constantly.

The Forks over Knives Plan - I have not tried this but the documentary they made is what changed my way of eating (hopefully for life)

Edit: I don't count calories, I eat what is allowed in the diet until I am full (ad libitum). I follow visual guidelines of how much food should be of each group. I try not to cheat except for special occasions. My lipid and Hb1AC numbers have come down to where I have never seen them before since I have started tracking them and lost 24 lbs in 3-4 months or so.

You want a weight loss and health-promoting diet which also is disease-preventing.

Good luck!

I'm no expert, but it seems like other than the small pot that you mentioned, things are fine. I would recommend the book Homegrown Tea by Cassie Liversidge as it details the proper conditions for growing tea in a container. I'm hoping to grow tea myself one day, which is why I picked it up.

Again, I'm glad your techniques worked for you and your family members. I still think you're underestimating how much most of us on this forum have changed our lifestyles to try to remedy our IBS. We don't sit around eating doughnuts and then wonder why we feel so bad. Everybody here is smart enough to know that when someone says "cut down on processed sugar" they don't mean go from four doughnuts to two. Not everyone with IBS has diarrhea either, and I don't think your list would come close to cutting it for someone who has chronic constipation like I do. I need to be on Miralax every single day to be able to go to the bathroom at all. No amount of full body exercise or probiotic pills or sunshine is going to change that.

I have a few other chronic illnesses that definitely can't be resolved through lifestyle changes alone, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome being one of them. Still, there are people who say that their POTS, a disease that causes dizziness upon standing and fatigue because of blood not circulating throughout the body the way that it should, say that theirs was resolved through dietary changes. This popular blogger, Deliciously Ella, is literally using the claim that her whole foods, plant-based diet "immediately cured" her POTS to sell these cookbooks. Some people with POTS, IBS, and many of these other disorders that doctors don't know the cause of just get better over time. Doctors know that some young people like that blogger with POTS grow out of it (this is coming from my cardiologist). Doctors also know that some people with IBS (especially post-infectious) heal over time. And then when the people with POTS or the people with IBS who got better attribute their recovery to whatever lifestyle change they were making at the moment, that hurts everybody else who's still sick. Because it gives the general public, who are mostly ignorant about the epidemiology and symptoms of our illnesses anyway, some neighbor or cookbook author to point to who had IBS or POTS who got better because they "just did X." And suddenly, still having that illness becomes your fault, and whoever is talking to you has effectively dismissed you and all of the problems that come with your very real, very incurable, and very painful chronic illness. And that just sucks.

Sorry, I know that I should not read into this at all. But my first thought was.....

What are the names of those books!? Kind of like when Brit posts on IG with all the Book titles readable, which also happens in the OA at the bookstore in Grass Valley where you can see all the environmental books behind Karim, like the original, Silent Spring.

What I read here are yes, you guessed it, books on how to save the planet:

• Anthropocene
  
• The End of Ice
  
• Slime
  
• Whole Earth Field Guide
  
• There is No Planet B (maybe, hard to read)
  
• KRS written on the glass...
  
  Sorry, I just have a hard time believing Zal leaves anything to chance. He is always looking for the right shot, so I think his shots are exactly what he wants to show for whatever reason, and yes, not likely connected to the OA.

If she wants health and vegan, go for:

http://www.amazon.com/Forks-Over-KnivesThe-Cookbook-Plant-Based/dp/1615190619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449959651&sr=8-1&keywords=forks+over+knives+cook+book

This is known as the bible of vegan cooking. It has basics from how to stock your pantry, to cooking rice, etc. Recipes are categorized and they have low cal, I believe:

http://www.amazon.com/Veganomicon-The-Ultimate-Vegan-Cookbook/dp/156924264X

This is from one of the original farm-to-table vegan restaurants in NYC. Everything is healthy and they have basics:

http://www.amazon.com/Angelica-Home-Kitchen-Rousings-Restaurant/dp/1580085032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449959834&sr=8-1&keywords=angelica%27s+kitchen+cookbook

One book that I'd suggest is Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. It's an historical/anthropological study of food, told by devoting a chapter to each ingredient in a meal. I found it absolutely eye-opening to see how these things we take for granted have changed so much over the course of human history.

Oxford Companion To Food

Marcella Hazan's Ingredienti - worth also listening to on Audible

Have you tried a facsimile of the original Mrs Beetons?

Ooh, This one looks good

http://smile.amazon.com/Happy-Herbivore-Cookbook-Delicious-Fat-Free-ebook/dp/B004EPYW8S/

http://smile.amazon.com/Everyday-Happy-Herbivore-Quick---Easy-ebook/dp/B006L8KGKY/

http://smile.amazon.com/Happy-Herbivore-Abroad-Travelogue-Fat-Free-ebook/dp/B00AGBW90M/


Also you need to change your country here to get the discount. Not in your delivery address section.

Kitchen Seasons, by Ross Dobson

I've made almost everything in this book and every recipe is absolutely scrumptious. The photography is lush and most recipes are relatively simple.

1 gallon, all grain brewer here, too :)

The yeast says the temperature ranges.

I've used Brooklyn Brew Shop's Beer Making Book for quite a few recipes. It has 52 different recipes for 1 gallon batches (along with sidebar with 5g sizes). They have a new book coming out soon called Make Some Beer with more 1g batch recipes.

• http://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Brew-Shops-Beer-Making-ebook/dp/B005U3UZ7U/
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Make-Some-Beer-Small-Batch-Brooklyn-ebook/dp/B00GQAOMZW/
  
  I also scour the Internet (and this subreddit) for recipes and just divide by 5 for grains and hops. Everything else works out great.

Hornsey Chemistry and Biology of winemaking is cheap but has all the correct science
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chemistry-Biology-Winemaking-Ian-Hornsey/dp/0854042660

Anyone who enjoyed this video would probably love A Cafecito Story, a relatively short and lightly fictionalized story by Julia Alvarez, based on real-life events and the author's coffee plantation. She actually started a small, community based coffee grower's coop-kinda thing and they are making a go of it while bringing nature and the native biotope back to an area plagued and stripped by industrial agriculture.

An interesting book I am reading on this topic, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World

Disclaimer: I haven't read these books, but the term I see used in this context a lot is "Veganic" gardening or farming so that may help you while searching for things.

Searching that I found this:

The Vegan Book of Permaculture: Recipes for Healthy Eating and Earthright Living https://www.amazon.com/dp/1856232018/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_FmwMBbXAVBB7X

And this:

Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933392495/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tmwMBb1XR1G0X

Once again, I haven't read either of these but I might check them out since this is also something I've wanted to do for some time too.

both of these books are written by popular chef, so they may be a little more upscale than what you are looking for. in my opinion Deep Run Roots has simpler recipes for a home cook to follow.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Run-Roots-Stories-Recipes-ebook/dp/B01E3V5P8S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483213393&sr=1-1&keywords=deep+run+roots

https://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Sean-Brock-ebook/dp/B00MEY9SZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483213500&sr=1-1&keywords=sean+brock

It's a good start. You'll probably enjoy this one too:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1616082615/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/176-8207950-3157550

This is a fabulous book:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Bite-Time-Revised-Nourishing/dp/1587613271

The magic mineral broth is sooooo comforting and nourishing, I made it for my mom after her hysterectomy and she really appreciated it.

It really is a book for everyone, not just cancer patients - I have loved everything I've made from it.