Nourishing Traditions Cookbook

Over the last several years, I’ve gotten more serious about preparing healthy meals for us. These meals, while healthier than fast food, still weren’t as healthy as they could be. I recently began reading traditional food blogs, and just purchased a cookbook called Nourishing Traditions.

I’ve learned so much about how bad processed foods really are for us. I always knew that whole foods were better, but didn’t quite comprehend EXACTLY how bad processed food really is. They were just so much more convenient and easier to use. Since I am still learning how to cook, things like roasting a whole chicken, and making my own chicken stock were a little intimidating to me. I can now proudly say that I have done both. Yay for me! 🙂



This book is challenging everything that I have ever thought about healthy eating. I am still working my way through the book and learning, but so far it has been very enlightening. I have to say that the claim of butter being a health food was very intriguing. Real butter? Sign me up!

This is not a fad diet book by any means. This is a very well-researched book that explains how we have been duped by the “Diet Dictocrats” into thinking that saturated fats and cholesterol are bad for us. This book details how high-cholesterol diets promote good health, and that saturated fats can protect the heart,etc. It may sound totally crazy, but the more I read online and in this book, the more sense it makes. I would like to point out that the authors are encouraging raw whole milk products, pastured beef and chicken, not conventional food products. I haven’t made the leap into trying raw dairy yet, but I haven’t ruled it out. That is just a pretty big step for me to take, but I do buy full fat dairy products now. I am seeking out the next best thing to raw dairy. I purchase Kerrygold unsalted butter, which comes from grass-fed cows. The other dairy products that I buy come from grass-fed cows, are non-homogenized and VAT pasteurized at the lowest temperature possible in order to allow the milk to retain more of its nutritional value. The brand that I buy is Kalona Supernatural.



I haven’t had any luck finding their milk in stores, but our Whole Foods does sell milk from a local dairy called Texas Daily Harvest that is low-temperature pasteurized and non-homogenized. It.Is.Delicious. They do sell raw milk at their farm in Yantis,TX.

I’ve also purchased grass-fed beef at my local Sprouts grocery store. Pastured chickens are a little harder to find at the store, but I did see some at one of the Whole Foods here in the DFW area. In the future, I may seek out farmer’s markets or farms themselves to buy these, but for now this is way more convenient for us.

I found my copy of Nourishing Traditions at a Half Price bookstore for about eight bucks. I have the second revised edition that came out in 2003. This book was co-written by Sally Fallon Morell and Dr. Mary Enig, who also co-authored the Eat Fat Lose Fat book. I checked this book out of our local library, and it is a great read also.

By Tempie at November 18, 2011.