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Get It Ripe: A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living
A book by jae steele
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If you're interested in general healthy living and want to learn not only what to eat but the nutritional breakdown of how it affects your body, Get It Ripe is an accessible introduction to a healthier lifestyle– that just happens to be vegan, sustainable and pro-planet earth. While most "healthy" oriented diet and cook books can be pretty unforgiving about falling off, Get It Ripe gives a point by point summary on why you should eat whole foods, so that when you do fall off, you're more bummed about missing out on the nourishment than about caving into your fat foods temptation. It's also not so much about eating vegan as it is a way to eat better, since there enough literature that states how bad refined flour, sugar, dairy and non-organic meats are for you.
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Jae Steele is a chef, certified nutritionist, activist, and long time publisher of cook zines, and Get It Ripe features the best of her recipes as well as her approach to whole foods cooking. If you're not familiar with whole foods, it's not the expensive market but food in it's whole state, unprocessed, organic, and natural. What I really liked about Steele's approach is that she gives plain spoken explanations of other nutritional philosophies (raw, macrobiotic, and locavore), integrations the best of each of them into her cooking, and explains the nutritional value in each recipe! She appreciates the yin and yang/ hot and cold energies from eastern macrobiotic cooking, and uses more sea vegetables in her recipes. She's also all about encouraging raw foods in the summer when its easiest and most plentiful. If you're scared of giving up carbs, she also includes tons of wheat-free and gluten free baked goods recipes.
She also touches on exercise, body brushing, and wearing as much natural fibers as you can. She's also an activist, and gives the contact info for organizations that can point you to local farmers and food co-ops, if you're willing to put the effort in. While this is all pretty interesting stuff, what's most valuable about this book is that her recipes are easy, call for commonplace ingredients, and are pretty liberal with substitutions. You get the sense that's she's really just providing a blueprint for you to develop your own healthy regiment, and guiding you to figure out what's right for your body.
The book is broken down by sections— why go vegan, what you need in your kitchen, cooking, baking, and desserts, and also features tasty color pictures. Check out the white bean quinoa salad, cauliflower chickpea curry, blueberry breakfast polenta, and maple mashed sweet potatoes. I'm getting hungry already!
Check out Steele's popular food blog: http://domesticaffair.blogspot.com/
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norelpref
March 31, 2009
I've been looking for a good read after Veganomicon. Perhaps this will be it.
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stephaniezhu
February 10, 2009
Sounds like a great non scary way to eat healthier. And I LOVE that it has photos... can't do food books without photos! :)
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HealthyRache
February 10, 2009
Great review! This sounds like a really non-threatening approach to a vegan diet. There are so many out there that are too preachy and overbearing. I'll have to check this out next ... thanks Raina!
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