Raw Food Primer
Author: Suzanne Ferrara
Eating is more than just taking nutrients in. It's also pleasure, communion, and the taste of life. With the blossoming of raw food as an artistic cuisine, eating is also about discovering intense natural flavors and enticing high palate food lovers to explore new/old ways to eat. As the raw food movement enters the culinary mainstream, Chef Alex is right here to help with The Raw Food Primer as a starter kit. Those who try these succulent recipes will enjoy deep comfort, great nutrition, and fresh paths to glowing health.
For many, raw food is already a way of life. But when we try to explain it to friends, family or students who don't yet know the pleasures and the benefits of eating "raw", they may say, "You can't keep up your energy with raw carrots" or "Yuck! That sounds really boring" or "I can't give up my pasta!" To answer such remarks, Chef Alex has written The Raw Food Primer. She gently introduces "first timers" to the concept of raw foods and a vegetarian diet. Encouraging them to add raw food slowly to their diet, she avoids a zealous approach that may frighten off people curious about "uncooking" but not quite ready to give raw cuisine a full embrace. With her charming, low-pressure style, Ferrara eases the reader into true eagerness to try tasty raw dishes and reap the health benefits like more energy. Many people who have gone raw report that they have a leaner structure, clearer skin and eyes, and they no longer experience problems with allergies or fatigue.
The Raw Food Primer is perfect for curious students of this revolutionary food experience or the more experienced raw foodist — or anyone who merely appreciates delicious food. And priced $19.95 (a full $10 off similar-seeming books) they can afford Chef Alex's guidance to begin a raw or modified raw diet.
About the Author
Suzanne Alexander Ferrara is a raw food chef, specializing in training restaurant owners and "private citizens" in the preparation and joys of raw food and is a food columnist. Before becoming a raw food chef she owned and operated a restaurant, a snack bar, and health food store. A talented painter and a sculptor, she has had sixteen solo art exhibitions and illustrated The Raw Food Cookbook with 25 original paintings. She recently developed recipes for Roxanne's Restaurant in Larkspur, California. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Chef Alex now resides chiefly in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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See also: The Glow or The Way We Eat Author: Jeanine Young Mason Do you need to add caring to your course? Do your students need to become more aware of the process patients and families go through as they adapt to an illness or death? Sixteen contemporary autobiographical case studies written by children and adults who have experienced psychiatric and physical illnesses are contained in this extraordinary text. Each case study begins with a brief description of the patient's clinical situation. Chapters are followed by points for discussion and study questions to further direct the exploration of the accounts and enhance students' critical thinking skills. This is a compilation of narratives where the authors write autobiographically about their experiences with physical and mental illness. The purpose is to increase healthcare providers' sensitivity to and compassion for the suffering of others. Further, the text is meant to assist healthcare providers in practically and politically dealing with conditions impacting on vulnerable individuals. The editor describes this text as being geared to ""students in nursing, medicine, and allied health."" This is an appropriate audience for the book. The doctorally prepared editor, who works as an associate professor of nursing at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and who is a regular contributor to the journal CNS, is a credible authority on the subject matter. Further, the authors of each chapter are credible, having lived the experience of the illness about which they are writing. The book features a table of contents that includes a title, the chapter author's name, and a quote taken directly from the chapter. A special feature of the text is the critical thinking exercise located at the end of each chapter, designed to assist the reader in critically analyzing the narrative accounts. This is a powerful text that includes 16 autobiographical accounts of illness narratives. Each chapter explores a different dimension of the illness experience. The text would be beneficial for individual purchase. Because the text highlights human responses to illness, it would be especially suitable for purchase by nurses and for use in schools of nursing. Reviewer: Cheryl Laskowski, DNS, RN, CS (Daemen College) 4 Stars! from Doody The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness
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Description: This is a compilation of narratives where the authors write autobiographically about their experiences with physical and mental illness.
Purpose: The purpose is to increase healthcare providers' sensitivity to and compassion for the suffering of others. Further, the text is meant to assist healthcare providers in practically and politically dealing with conditions impacting on vulnerable individuals.
Audience: The editor describes this text as being geared to "students in nursing, medicine, and allied health." This is an appropriate audience for the book. The doctorally prepared editor, who works as an associate professor of nursing at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and who is a regular contributor to the journal CNS, is a credible authority on the subject matter. Further, the authors of each chapter are credible, having lived the experience of the illness about which they are writing.
Features: The book features a table of contents that includes a title, the chapter author's name, and a quote taken directly from the chapter. A special feature of the text is the critical thinking exercise located at the end of each chapter, designed to assist the reader in critically analyzing the narrative accounts.
Assessment: This is a powerful text that includes 16 autobiographical accounts of illness narratives. Each chapter explores a different dimension of the illness experience. The text would be beneficial for individual purchase. Because the text highlights human responses to illness, it would be especially suitable for purchase by nurses and for use in schools of nursing. Rating
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