Amazing book filled with recipes based on a wholesome and natural philosophy. Recipes are accompanied by plenty of information from various sources and introductions to chapters are very useful. I highly recommend this book.

My seven word title is the gist of this book, although I could have added, "and stuff derived from animals". Obviously, I'm a fan of Michael Pollan's "In Defense Of Food".

While "Nourishing Traditions" may appeal to a segment of the North America population who long for the good ole days, it's out of step with what's been learned about the healing benefits of plant-based nutrition, and in particular, cruciferous vegetables.

Before you buy into the "It's all the fault of processed foods!" theory, read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and then his In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

After that, if you're still longing for raw cows milk, read Colin Campbell's The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health.

Six or seven years ago, a friend of mine underwent bypass surgery, when he was in his mid-sixties. Shortly after that he stumbled on to the Weston A. Price Foundation, where he met Mary & Sally. They told him what he wanted to hear. His heart disease was all the fault of processed foods. High-fat animal foods are heart healthy! Cholesterol is a nutrient!

Not too long after that he took up running, and I first met him at a pub run. I also had become quite interested in nutrition, especially after reading The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. Needless to say, while we were both in agreement on the dangers of processed foods, we had near polar-opposite views on animal-based foods. We passed information back and forth for a while, but neither one swayed the other. Finally we just agreed to disagree.

About two and a half years ago, while running alone on an intown trail in some pretty cold weather, he passed out for a good chunk of time. As it turned out, from lack of blood-flow to his brain.

A few months later, he told the surgeon who restored greater blood-flow through his most severely blocked carotid artery, that he now intended to adopt a plant-based diet. He was very surprised by his doctor's response. "If it were me, that's what I'd do". He later told me, "So they know!"

To be fair, my friend likes ice-cream! ( Probably the worst processed food out there for anyone with severe cardiovascular disease. )

This cookbook is pretty much a vegetarian's nightmare. It is loaded with a lot of "meaty" recipes and not very many good veggie recipes. However, it does provide some overall good dietary info.

My seven word title is the gist of this book, although I could have added, "and stuff derived from animals". Obviously, I'm a fan of Michael Pollan's "In Defense Of Food".

While "Nourishing Traditions" may appeal to a particular segment of the population who long for the good ole days, it's out of step with what's been learned about the healing benefits of plant-based nutrition, and in particular, cruciferous vegetables.

Before you buy into the "It's all the fault of processed foods!" theory, read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and then his In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

After that, if you're still longing for raw cows milk, read Colin Campbell's The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health.

For the most part, a friend of mine followed the Weston A. Price Foundation's nutritional recommendations. He'd already undergone bypass surgery in his mid-sixties when he stumbled onto their website. Two or three years later, while running alone on an intown trail in some pretty cold weather, he passed out for a good chunk of time. As it turned out, from lack of blood-flow to his brain. He told the doctor who restored greater blood-flow through his carotid arteries that he now intended to adopt a plant-based diet. He was quite surprised by his doctor's response, "If it were me, that's what I'd do".

To be fair, my friend likes ice-cream! ( Probably the worst processed food out there for someone with severe cardiovascular disease. )

NOURISHING TRADITIONS is the Nutrition Bible for the world. This book explains the diet of peoples around the world who never had disease. Current research is now proving the importance of the right type of fats in balance. Plastic fats made from processed vegetable oils are causing many disease and ill health. Saturated fats are not the villains. Raw cows milk from pasture fed animals, organic eggs from free range chickens may not give a variety in the diet but you do get better health!
Read this book, try the recipes and be healthy!

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Read the book.A question for the Low-Fat Politically Correct people :
Did your ancestors, whether they be from Rome,Africa,Central America,Norway,etc., ever eat a low-fat diet? Think about it and thank your ancestors they were obviously doing something right before the pharmacuetical & low-fat industries came along......

Having already assembled an extensive library of nutritional information it's an understatement to say I was pleasantly surprised and pleased at both the quality and practicality of so much long lost knowledge so well presented in Ms. Fallon's excellent book, Nourishing Traditions. Reading it transports me back to my own childhood years (the 50s) on my grandparents little farm, where nearly everything we ate was home grown - and we were never sick! Nourishing Traditions confirms in simple, concise layman's language what I always suspected, that most modern processed foods aren't fit for man or beast. It also reveals many of the little "secrets" that my grandmother's innate and old-fashioned knowledge utilized to keep all who entered her house well fed and healthy.
So far I have personally purchased 10 copies (1 for each of our kids, 1 for my doctor, the rest for wedding gifts) and recommend it to anyone with a health issue who will listen to nutritional information. Anyone can read and understand it.
Besides all of the above, I quickly came to consider it the most user-friendly health-related book in my library. It is now my first "go to" for health or nutritional information. Thanks to the authors and publisher for a superb and valuable piece of work and thanks to Amazon for making it available at such a reasonable price.
Keith Lunders
Elk River, Idaho

This book is a staple in a household who follows the Weston A Price Foundation. Not only does this cookbook cover recipes but it is loaded with educational findings, little known side facts and interesting trivia. I keep it handy in my kitchen!!!

Sally Fallon has done a great service. With concrete evidence for eating real food and preparing it in ways that truly nourish our bodies, this book provides all you need to know to stay healthy.

The work of Weston A. Price, DDS, as well as many others is highlighted throughout the book, giving hard core evidence of the need to eat nutrient dense foods.

The mental health field alone, is justification for eating better. Folks who eat nutrient dense foods tend to be happier.

The most exciting aspect of this information is that we can turn our own health around and young women can create healthy bodies that can bring healthy babies into the world.

This book should be required reading!!

If you are fed up with being sick and wondering why, read this informative cookbook that teaches you where our society has gone wrong with it's fast-food eating habits,over-processed foods laden with chemical cocktails, and a USDA that is dictated to by huge agri-business, which by the way is about money, not quality,safe food!!!
The author explains why eating like our ancestors will bring us back to our optimum health and vitality with good wholesome foods!! This is not a diet book...it is a whole 'new' way of eating for life and health that will effect your whole lifestyle!! I've never read a book that has so completely changed my life for the better as Nourishing Traditions has!!

This book is full of good insight and wisdom. I thought I knew a lot about nutrition and wellness but this book puts what I knew and the rest of what I needed to know in one volume. I read it regularly to review and pick-up new information. Very helpful.
Mary Quilter

this is a great book for anybody who is interested in nutrition and healthy eating. it's very detailed and explanatory. must have.

Since reading this book I have really started changing my eating habits - not b/c I feel I should, I WANT to! Learning what goes in to food has been eye-opening for me. I will say that I threw out all of my margarine. The recipes are really tasty. Try the cream cheese - it is easy and yummy!

This is a great book and I'm so happy I decided to purchase it. I use it for reference a lot and find it to be much much more than a cookbook. In fact, I rarely use it as a cookbook.

This book is not only intuitive, but it is very well written and backed up by numerous references for the analytical ones who need data. The state of our health as a human society is so poor, and getting worse all the time, one needs to ask what has gone wrong. Well, this book and the work of Weston A. Price in general have the answers. It is imperative that the people take back their own health; no one else will. Here is a great place to start!

Not only is Nourishing Traditions a well researched educational book, but it also contains practical useful resources that can help make your life more enjoyable, called recipes!

One of the best recipes in the book is chocolate rugelach. It is also called "Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastry." The recipe uses cream cheese, butter and fresh ground flour to make the most delicious dessert.

Another favorite recipe is lamb sausage, it tastes really good and has a good mixture of spices.

Finally our family has enjoyed making the marinated raw fish dishes, like ceviche and pickled salmon. These dishes help preserve your food and at the same time increase its ability to be digested.

The book also contains vital recipes such as bone broths, and teaches people how to prepare their food in traditional ways to enhance digestion and your health.

Usually books are just filled with entertainment and useful information, but how rare is it to find a book that can help you enjoy life more with delicious recipes.

Rami Nagel is author of Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition, which teaches people how to use traditional foods to halt and remineralize cavities.

The recipes in this book are good. The only recipe that I had trouble with so far was the biscuits. They turned out a little dry. I am not sure if this was because I didn't have access to freshly ground flour or not. This has a lot of idea that are against the norm and ideas that should help you to improve your health. The quotes and excerpts from other books were also helpful in directing you to other books that might be beneficial.

This book was recommended to me by a friend recovering from a cancer diagnosis. Though it is not specific to cancer, it is chock full of amazing recipes and good solid approaches to healthy eating. I promptly ordered four copies for family and friends!

This book is a great place to start when learning about tradition foods and methods for preparing them. It is comprehensive, providing information and recipes for all types of foods. It will serve as the foundation for the foods I choose and the ways I will prepare them.

I love this book. It not only educates you about why you should prepare your food naturally but how to prepare it. Knowing how processed our food is, is the beginning. This book helps me do something about it in my world

A lot of people with the negative reviews are all over the place with their critique. Food is very complex and you need to read ALL the basics to give yourself a foundation from which to judge the effectiveness of any method. First you need to do cleansing and get in shape in order to become sensitive enough to even be able to judge the effects of every little thing you put in your mouth. A daily yoga practice is almost a necessity because it gives you a daily barometer. I would recommend reading Weston Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" so you can read his research findings for yourself! You should also read "You are all Sanpaku" by George Osawa. Then you should look into raw food diets. Don't try something for one day/one meal and pronounce loudly that it failed. Try it every day for a month and see what happens.

This is a WAKE UP CALL! However, personally I feel I cannot follow all the things suggested but I realized a lot of things I can change that is so beneficial to the health of myself and my family and my growing children. This is a way to get back the health God intended for us without all these poisons and toxins we are adding. To have optimum health I would read this book.

The first time I read this book, I thought it was pretty extreme, given the current fashionable dietary recommendations.
But I have since come around to realize that much of what the author writes regarding nutrition is very true.
Some of the recipes might not be practical for everyone, but the concepts can be very helpful in improving your health.

I can't say enough about this book. It's a research book. It's a cookbook. If I could only save one thing from my burning house, it might be my ear marked NT book. Seriously.

Interesting to read but a lot of things she says in the book contradict with each other.
Pork is bad for you but fermented pork or traditionally made ham is good for you. She says: "blood tests have shown undesirable results after people eat pork; however many traditional long-lived cultures consume pork as a principle food (e.g. Soviet Georgia)." I am from there and I have never had pork in all the 20 years I lived there. Lamb was the only thing available and only thing consumed with lots of red wine (also fails to mention in her book) She brushes about French Paradox of French eating high fat proteins, yet says no word about red wine consumption. That's a big part of a high fat French diet that's balanced with a consumption of antioxidants in red wine. People in Georgia and France also don't eat the portions people eat in this USA. In fact a regular American portion would feed the whole family of 4 in Georgia and France. I will continue to eat my balanced whole food diet, drink my red wine, have a desert on the weekend and have fun. Her book also has a Russian Shrimp soup recipe...hmm - they don't have any shrimp in Russia. Go figure.

As a cookbook, the recipes are excellent. We have tried several and we were surprised with how good each dish tasted. Allow yourself plenty of time to prepare them as some of them can take considerable time to prepare. It also includes an introduction that challenges recent-day dietary advice. Some of my co-workers found the ideas radical, however it is the way my great grandparents (and some grandparents) at all their meals. Not really all that radical.

I was excited to find this book, which I suppose made my disappointment with the amount of axe-grinding it contains all the greater. Let's just look at one thing--the authors' antagonism to vegetarianism.

On p. 28, the authors write, " Vitamin B12 deficiency has been found in breast-fed infants of strict vegetarians" and cite something that pretends to be a study: [Vitamin B12 deficiency in the breast-fed infant of a strict vegetarian.] Nutr Rev. 1979 May;37(5):142-4. Well, I went and looked this up at PubMed, the NIH's database of all articles published in peer-reviewed journals. And guess what? It's about ONE PERSON. The author didn't even deign to sign his name to it. It looks like some kind of anecdote that was written up and sent in. Not good. Certainly not proof that breast-fed infants of strict vegetarians are vitamin B12 deficient. But let's move on. Maybe they have something else to back up the other somewhat inflammatory statements they make about vegetarianism.

According to the authors, when Hindus moved from "unsanitary" India to "sanitary" Britain (their words) in 1979, they came down with pernicious anemia in droves because their food was no longer full of bugs, as it was back in the Old Country. What is their proof of this? Something called Nature's Way, 1979, 10:20-30. This appears to be a popular magazine instead of a peer-reviewed journal, and once again, no authors are listed.

Later, on p. 29, the authors make the statement that "Strict vegetarianism is particularly dangerous for growing children and for women--and men--during their child-producing years." What do they offer to back up this statement? Nothing. No reference of any kind.

The authors go on to attack the cultivation of grains and legumes as "a far more serious threat to humanity" (yes, really!) than raising cattle because, according to them, growing these plants "depletes the soil." I guess the authors don't know that legumes fix nitrogen from the air and are typically grown as a green manure. They also state that grains and legumes "require the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides." Apparently these authors have never heard of organic grains and legumes.

The authors do cite valid articles, but many of them are more than 20 years old, which is the Pleistocene when you are doing research. This does not even to touch upon the occasions when the authors cite articles they themselves have written to back up their arguments. That is not okay.

I should have known better than to buy a book with the words "political correctness" in the title. This phrase has become the general term of abuse for every self-serving, axe-grinding argument for the past two decades. And so it is here.

The authors of this book apparently intended readers to be impressed by the very fact that they used citations. Maybe they figured nobody was going to check any of their references and we would all be bowled over by their very presence. The authors need to understand that citations to garbage make their work garbage. When they lie like this about one thing because they apparently really, really, really want to make a particular point, they undermine everything else they have said.

Too bad. This could have been a really neat book. I gave it a few stars for the recipes.

I just started this reference book. My friend highly recommended that I buy it, and now I see why!
I know I will be referring to this book again and again for years to come.

I discovered this book through my personal trainer. What he told me he'd learnt from this book made it impossible for me not to order my own copy. It's almost horrifying to discover how some of our everyday foods are processed and how it effects our bodies. This is not just another recipe book. It's a bible for healthy food consumption. Do yourself and your family a favour, become educated about what is actually passing your lips and look forward to a healthier future.

This is the best book I have read on nutrition, and as a bonus it's even a cook book! I am thrilled at how informative it is throughout the entire book, with even with sidebars on the recipe pages. It has an appendix I found very helpful, titled "Limited-Time, Limited-Budget Guidelines" with useful tips on where to begin. I'm your typical "American Mom" with cupboards full of hydrogenated convenience foods. This book was what I needed to make a positive change in my family's diet. I truly believe what author Sally Fallon tells us about the current foods we eat and how our foods are what makes us (and keeps us) sick. Also helpful is her section on feeding babies that even contains recipes for making your own formula! If you think that sounds extreme, I would read what the author has to say about commercial formula before you decide. I agree with another reviewer who said if you only own one cook book, make it this one!

This book is excellent. I learned things in here that were great: about homogenization of milk, what color margarine REALLY is (and why would anyone want to eat it?), what fats are healthy, how cereal is made.

I like the "guess this product" sidebars where the ingredients are given and then you try to guess what "food" product is the summation of those chemicals.

Also, informative about what different types of people from around the world eat and stay very healthy and live long lives without dying from Cancer, diabetes, etc.

I have made a few recipes from it i.e. Cucumber Yoghurt Dip (page 173) and Chicken Stock (page 124) and am already making them again!

[...]If you care for your family and friends, buy and use this book.

This is the best cookbook I have ever had. I read it sometimes, just for fun and for the education in nutrition it provides!!! The recipes are easy and bestow health!!! I am watching my family get well. Many illnesses, complaints , chronic back pain and asthma are all disappearing. I am continually amazed by the simplicity of wholesome diets humans should be eating!!! Get this book!!!

It takes time to realize that progress does not always mean improvement, that MRI's don't always mean better medical care, that infant formula is not an improvement over the real thing. Sally Fallon's yummy, nutritious recipes, and fascinating, common-sense sidebars share the accumulated wisdom of the ages, results of thousands of years of knowledge accrued by the people who cooked, used resources, fed families most wisely, the ones who survived and thrived. Roxanne B. Sukol MD MS Cleveland Ohio

I bought this after an co-worker lent it to me. The recipes are delicious and the chapters on nutrition enlightening. As I was reading I kept thinking "Of course!" I bought a copy for my chronically ill mother and just be improving her nutrition her health has improved. Though, I will say this book isn't for everyone, especially vegetarians. It's a good fit for me as I am able to get raw milk and butter. But for most people grass fed beef is impossible to come by. Still, I highly recommend it.

This book is full of information that's useful to anyone trying to eat in way that our bodies were meant to. Ms. Fallon has extensively researched the history of food, how it's made and eaten by traditional cultures, nutrients, nutrient availability and many other topics. It's a great reference book as well as a cookbook. I've given at least six copies of this book to friends and family members, and I use it regularly myself.

I though I knew how to eat. This book, and the Weston A Price organization website, are astounding. It is shocking to discover how much information about healthy eating has been lost in this century, and the rampant disease in our industrialized society no longer surprises me.
This book is well written, interesting, full of useful info and recipes, and utterly terrifying.
The recipe for rugalah is great, but they only need to cook for roughly 20 minutes, certainly not 45.

So many have already tried and reviewed this book that I wanted to say a little something different. This book will enable you to start a journey of lifelong healthy eating by giving you the abundance of knowledge found from all over the world to try and to enjoy foods and beverages and techniques you may never have heard of before. After you read this book you should check out the Weston A. Price Foundation website for updates and ongoing articles related to the book's material. Then for a new spin on the same foundational research you should read William Wolcott's Metabolic Typing Diet which takes Weston Price, Pottenger and others' research and applies them in a very sensible way to help you eat your way to wellness. After that check out Sue Gregg's cooking website and put into practice everything you have learned letting Sue's videos show you how to do it.

If you only keep one cookbook, keep this one. It is an extraordinary work, in scope and depth -- a feast of information about health and natural cooking. It will become your bible. You'll want to give copies to everyone you know. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Nourishig Traditions by Sally Fallon. Make it the one and only cookbook that you use. Packed with useful information about healthy foods it explains why the traditional foods are not good for you and has hundreds of great recipies. It's a great addition to the Maker's Diet.

This is an excellent book to get us back to the basics of how God intended for us to eat. The American diet is so unhealthy, and this book reminds us that sometimes getting the best for ourselves takes a little more time but is worth the extra effort.

While I like some of Fallon's ideas, once she starts bashing vegans and soy her real agenda comes out. Recommending animal products and discouraging vegetarian lifestyles is exactly what puts readers' health, as well as our environment, in danger time and time again. I found out that Fallon's organization, the Weston Price foundation, is composed of "farmers" who sell and profit off of animal parts and fluids. That is exactly why they are so anti-vegan and anti-soy. They claim not to be funded by the meat or dairy industry, but if their members are selling animal parts and fluids then they ARE the meat and dairy industry, whether large or small, they are all components of the industry. Definitely an extremely biased, not balanced book.

This is exactly as the name suggests, nourishing tradititions, with all of the promise of the past. This book is packed full of wonderful healthy information and recipes that makes sense. A must have for the health conscious and a perfect gift for those that you love. Every home should have this book, it does mean spending more time preparing your food but it definately does add that special ingredient. Love!

This has become my favorite book and reference. I am able to find many wonderful, wholesome, traditional recipes as well as a wealth of information relating to healthful eating and living. I have had this book for over a year and have used it enormously for both these reasons. I love the format of the book. It's a large paperback with nice glossy covers. The recipes are like the central part of the book, being the "main" entry on a page, and then there are sidebars on all pages drawn from many and varied sources. The sidebars give tidbits of information that I have found very helpful and often amazing as well. The sidebars are like a secondary book to the recipes pulling information about food, traditions, scientific studies, health, and more from sources both old and new. I bought one for my daughter also since she, too, has an interest in matters of healthy food purchasing and preparation and in personal health concerns. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in these issues.

I just love the book. It was a Christmas gift and I'm enjoying the recipes. Thank you!

This book is my food bible!! A must have if you are suffering from any chronic illness.Packed full of information and the recipes are delicious.Has helped me finally become free of medication!! I highly recommend this and this price is the best out there!

I agree with many of the points that Fallon makes in her book, however, I also agree with another reviewer in saying that Fallon's book should be taken as a STEP in the right direction, but not taken as the end-all to the debate on a healthy diet. As Fallon's beloved Dr. Price so vividly demonstrated, there is no ONE diet that is perfect for all humans. Some of the groups he studied relied heavily on raw milk as a part of their diets and other didn't use it at all, yet they were still quite robust. Finding the right personal diet for yourself and your family involves a combination of research on nutrition as well as investigating your own heritage and spiritual beliefs. For the most part, I love the work Fallon is doing to bring attention to food issues, but any time we start getting too dogmatic in our thinking it can close our minds to other potentially useful ideas. I would also recommend The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein

A wonderful cookbook that not only has recipes, but information on nutrition and nutrition history. This cookbook uses natural ingredients; no hydrogenated products or ingredients with transfats.

She asks you questions about various ingredients. You find the answers on other pages.

This book "goes against the grain" because she challenges you to consider the popular nutrition information of today, and gives you reason to reconsider.

This book has helped me see food in a different light. We are eating more healthfully now. I hope I never go back to all that processed junk food!!!

There is surely no field of scientific inquiry more fraught with confusion than Human Nutrition. Not only does it have enormous complexity, but its 'external factors' include every aspect of human existence. There is a great pool of conflicting research from which one can cull (or interpret) just about any notion you would like.

This is a case where somebody picked up an idea, became completely enamored of it, and then ran with it. The biggest danger of the book in terms of it being misunderstood is its counter-cultural packaging and seemingly anti-establishment tone. That is actually hardly what it is.

"When in Rome..." has a shallow truth in this case. It's generally good for one's health to be well adjusted. There are studies showing that coffee drinkers are healthier than non coffee-drinkers; that those who consume candy are healthier than those who do not; and etc. You get the picture, but the picture is one of a median grade that holds no promise of improvement. This is the driving constancy of the research quoted here.

As for the book being anti-establishment, critical of the food products business and their political influence -- it very much selectively chooses its targets. I've seen this book quoted in right-wing literature, and you can be sure that the dairy and livestock industries, whose influence is second to none, see no reason not to embrace it. The phrases in the title "politically correct nutrition" and "diet dictocrats" is a confused and contradictory way of labeling a target.

By not adequately separating the positive and negative contributions of technology upon the food supply, and maintaining only a shallow premise without a well-conceived long range view, this book has little in the way of usefulness.

This book shows what our grandparents and great-grandparents ate and why it was better than our modern processed foods. Most people assume whole foods are better, but don't really know why or which ones to eat. This book is sprinkled with many food lessons from history.