Nourishing traditions
by Sally Fallon · first published 1995
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Why HN recommends it
Recommended as a go-to cookbook and guide to traditional food preparation, such as soaking and fermenting grains, for readers exploring paleo, low-carb, or gut-health diets.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Recalling the culinary customs of our ancestors and looking ahead to a future of robust good health for young and old, Nourishing Traditions offers modern families a fascinating guide to wise food choices and proper preparation techniques. Nutrition researcher Sally Fallon unites the wisdom of the ancients with the latest independent and accurate scientific research. The revise and updated Second Edition contains over 700 delicious recipes that will please both exacting gourmets and busy parents.
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2010 - Outliers, Malcom Gladwell 2011 - In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan 2012 - Born to Run, Christopher McDougall 2013 - Four Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss 2014 - Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon 2015 - Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins 2016 - Black Swan, Nicolas Taleb 2017 - Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman, Richard Feynman 2018 - The Prophet, Khalil Gibran 2019 - Three…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…I only need to eat once or twice a day. For anyone interested, there's a lot of good paleo sites out there, but I'd start with http://paleonu.com and http://freetheanimal.com And if you can, pick up Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.
on “Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)” ↗…following a similar diet (GAPS) to improve some health issues and found that the first few weeks were tough because of sugar/carb withdrawal symptoms but it improved a lot after that. I'd recommend the book Nourishing Traditions for anyone wanting to keep eating some carbs. It's based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet which it's my aim to transition to eventually as it's a bit more relaxed about grains/pulses/dairy when prepared…
on “Green Faces (or How to Hack Your Metabolism)” ↗Lookup "Nourishing Traditions" online. It's a fantastic research topic for hackers. It's because of poorly processed foods that gut issues are so common nowadays. If grains (plus legumes and nuts) are prepared traditionally, the…
on “Why Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods?” ↗…101/how-to for this diet (and include one for pescatarians like me). Cuz this is great. Second, my friends and I (years and tears ago) got really into Price and the (recipe /cook) book based on his work, Nourishing Traditions. I recommend this work to anyone into the above. Was this book a part of you coming to these conclusions?
on “Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?” ↗Weston A Price is really the go-to for the early research in nutrition and dentistry. His book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was making the rounds back when Nourishing Traditions became popular. Price, conclusively in my mind, showed that the moment the modern western was introduced into cultures who ate traditional foods, the next generation had terrible teeth, jaws that were…
on “Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?” ↗…dairy/cheese/butter costs. I mentioned in another comment that I'm raising 50 chickens for meat and eggs and have already learned to butcher them. They taste AMAZING! We follow the GAPS Diet and Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions cookbook, and also the Weston A Price foundation. We take lots of High-Vitamin Butter Oil and Fermented Cod Liver Oil. We infuse a variety of herbs. We take pharmaceutical grade Pro-biotics when necessary.…
on “Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point” ↗It's been building for decades in alternative health circles. There's legitimate science about them dating back to the late 80s/early 90s. In 1999 Sally Fallon published a book called Nourishing Traditions which argued for rejecting modern industrial foods. A lot of the arguments you see today about seed oils originate from this book. These got amplified in 2014 by Nina Teicholz who published a book called…
on “Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter” ↗…decades mentioning Weston A Price and his book of dental studies, which no doubt dates us. (The side-by-side jaw images left an impression on me as well). I'm guessing you were also part of the Price to Nourishing Traditions cookbook pipeline? Everyone I knew had at least the cookbooks back in the day.
on “Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers” ↗