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NATURAL FOODS COOKBOOKS
Recommended by: Dr. David Richard, Naturopathic Doctor, Claremont, CA
At Integrative Natural Health, we recommend the following cookbooks and resources to help you get started on a natural foods diet. These books are available at local new & used bookstores or over the internet.
The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit, by Rosie Daley and Andrew Weil, PhD; Knopf, 2002
The Voluptuous Vegan: More Than 200 Sinfully Delicious Recipes for Meatless, Eggless & Dairy-Free Meals, by Myra Kornfield; Clarkson Potter, 2000
The Tassajara Recipe Book, by Edward Espe Brown; Shambhala, 2000
Classic Indian Vegetarian Cookery, Julie Sahni, Grub Street Publishing, 1999
The New Vegetarian Epicure, by Anna Thomas; Vintage Books, 1996
Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances M. Lappe; Ballantine Bks, Rev. Edition, 1992
Complete Whole Grain Cookbook, by Carol Gelles; Donald I Fine, reprint, 1991
The Natural Gourmet: Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Balanced Eating, by Anne Marie Colbin; Ballantine Books, 1989
The Grains Cookbook, by Bert & Norman Greene; Workman, 1988
Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
Horn of the Moon Cookbook, by Ginny Callan; Harper and Row, 1987
Laurel's Kitchen Recipes
Natural Foods Cookbook: Vegetarian, Dairy-Free Cuisine, by Mary Estella; Japan Publications, 1985
Vegetarian Dishes from Around the World, by Rose Elliot; Random House, 1982
Vegetarian Epicure: Book Two, by Anna Thomas; Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
The Wonderful World of Natural Cookery, by Eleanor Levitt; Hearthside Press, 1971
The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)
Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts
The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home Moosewood Collective; Simon & Schuster, 1994
Still Life with Menu; 10 Speed Press, 1988
New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant; 10 Speed Press, 1987
Bread Making:
The Tassajara Bread Book, by Edward Espe Brown; Shambhala, 1995
For Children and Their Families:
Feeding the Whole Family: Whole Foods Recipes for Babies, Young Children & Their Parents, by Cynthia Lair; Moon Smile Press 2nd Edition, 2002
Allergy: Survival Guide and Cookbook to Your Good Health. Stone, Carolyn; Beima, Janice. C. C. & Company Publishing, 1988.
Allergy and Candida: Cooking Made Easy. Lewis, Sandra K. Dietrich Blakely, Lonnett. Canary Connect Publishing, 1996.
A resource for anyone with yeast-related health problems. Suggests appropriate treats and snacks while on the road to recovery.
Allergy-Free Cooking: How to Survive the Elimination Diet and Eat Happily Ever After. Rhude Yoder, Eileen. Perseus Press 1995.
Written by a Nutritionist with twenty years of experience preparing allergy-free meals. This book is helpful in doing an elimination diet – that necessary step for anyone with food allergies.
Allergy Free Eating: A Key to the Future. Devrais, Joanna; Reno, Liz. Celestial Arts, 1995.
The purpose of this work is to provide updated, well‑rounded, clear information presented without extremes or gimmicks. It is also a collection of low‑fat and nonfat recipes.
Special Diet Celebrations: No Wheat, Gluten, Dairy or Eggs. Fenster, Ph.D., Carol. Savory Palate, 1999.
Written by a wheat‑intolerant home economist, this cookbook offers 150 recipes. Instead of wheat flour, recipes use combinations of flours made from rice, potatoes, tapioca, corn, soy, or beans.
The All Natural Allergy Cookbook. Martin, Jeanne Marie. Harbour Publishing Co., 1997.
Good resource for baked goods, frozen desserts, main courses, soups and sauces. Most are vegetarian or vegan.
The Allergy Cookbook. Shattuck, Ruth. Mass Market Paperback, 1986.
Recipes with no wheat, dairy, corn or eggs. Substitution tips and 300+ recipes.
The Allergy-Free Cookbook: Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Egg Free, No Added Sugar. Berriedale-Johnson, Michelle. Thorson’s Publishing, 1999.
A wide (over 100) selection of easy-to-prepare recipes, information on coping with food intolerances and valuable tips on healthful alternatives.
The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have!
More than 150 appetizing recipes incorporating substitutions that finally make it possible to eat what you want without adverse reactions.
The Dairy Free Cookbook. Zukin, Jane. Prima Publishing, Revised 2nd ed., 2000.
Over 250 recipes, nutritional analysis and a discussion about feeding babies dairy-free.
The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children and Others with Problems Associated with Food Additives and Salicylates. Feingold, Ben F. Random House, 1979.
For parents of children who have been labeled ODD, ADHD and other hyperactive behavior disorders.
The Food Allergy News Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes from Food Allergy News and Members of the Food Allergy Network. Munoz-Furlong, Ann and Food Allergy Network. Chronimed Publishing, 1998.
A great resource for the cooking-challenged. Good alternative ingredients for any type of food allergy.
The Rotation Diet Cookbook: A 4-Day Plan for Relieving Allergies. Carter, Jill; Edwards, Allison. Element, 1997.
A unique 4-day diet plan includes a wide range of recipes for delicious meals, plus reassuring and sympathetic advice including helpful alternative remedies.
Wheat-Free Recipes and Menus: Delicious Dining without Wheat or Gluten. Fenster, Ph.D., Carol. Savory Palate, 1997.
300 recipes that can be made without dairy as well. Perfect for people with food allergies and intolerances, celiac disease, autism, and auto-immune diseases. Extensive index teaches you how to recognize hidden sources of wheat and gluten.
Wheatless Cooking. Coffey, Lynette. Ten Speed Press, 1986.
Feeding The Whole Family. Lair, Cynthia. Moon Smile Press, 1997.
An excellent resource of whole food vegetarian recipes for the entire family. Adaptations for nutritional needs of babies, kids and pregnant women. Nutrient analysis for individual recipes, meal planning ideas and lunchbox recipes. Includes instructions on buying, storing, and cooking beans and whole grains.
How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes For Great Food. Bittman, Mark. MacMillian 1998.
Bittman’s many recipes are easy to follow to help you prepare healthful, delicious meals. The book has over 250 step-by-step illustrations to make food preparation easy. Also, information on various whole foods is discussed.
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home. The Moosewood Collective. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
A combination of carefully honed and tested recipes, tasty ingredients, time-saving tricks, and planning suggestions to help you make delicious whole-food meals that are quick and easy.
The Healthiest Diet In The World. Goldbeck, Nikki and David. Plume 2001.
Simple, tasteful recipes. Colbin incorporates Eastern eating philosophy and western eating habits. A very inspiring way to look at foods. Each recipe is classified according to the Chinese Theory of the Five Phases, making it easy to combine the various courses to create a balanced, harmonious meal.
Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook
Lots of practical cooking tips, including equivalency tables for ingredient substitutions, glossary of cooking terms, preservation tips on freezing, canning, pickling, jams & jellies, and drying. There are 1,500 recipes from categories like; appetizers, soups, sauces, sea vegetables, legumes, bread and nuts/seeds, sprouts, eggs, meats, dairy, fish, deserts and beverages, to name a few.
Still Life With Menu. Katzen, Mollie. Ten Speed Press, 1994.
Light, fabulous recipes arranged in a menu format. Often inspired by different ethnic kitchens. Chapter in the back discusses ways to optimize time management in the kitchen. Beautiful illustrations.
Superfoods: Cooking Your Way To Health. Steinback, Jyl. QVC Publishing 2001.
Coffey, Lynette WHEATLESS COOKING. Recipes written by the mother of a wheat and gluten allergic child. A must for anyone with the same culinary needs.
THE NATURAL GOURMET. Colbin, Annemarie Simple, tasteful recipes. Colbin incorporates Eastern eating philosophy and western eating habits. A very inspired way to look at foods.
THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK from FIT FOR LIFE. Diamond, Marilyn The fit for life approach to foods is based in the study of Natural Hygiene-that the body is self-cleansing, self-healing and self-maintaining. One of the tenets is proper food combining for optimal digestion. The recipes are dairy-free and there are a lot of vegan substitute recipes and may recipes for kids. The recipes are easy to follow and there are nutritional charts and tables in the back of the book.
THE NEW FARM VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK. First published in 1975. The Farm, a vegetarian community, pioneered much of what we know about vegan nutrition and soyfoods. This has been updated for the 90’s with lower salt and fat. Includes information as to how to make tofu and soymilk as well as other basic recipes of a vegan kitchen.
THE SUPERMARKET HANDBOOK. Goldbeck, Nikki Nutrition information that is easy to understand with recipes at the end of the book. Includes recipes for lunch boxes.
GOOD FOOD, MILK FREE, GRAIN FREE. Hills, Hilda. Includes dairy substitutes, meat, fish, and recipes for breads, soups and cakes.
TEN TALENTS. Hurd, Rosalie. A Seventh day Adventist approach to vegetarianism. Includes recipes for baby food, food remedies, charts and tables of nutritional needs, food glossary and many simple whole foods recipes. Good for beginners to vegetarian cooking.
THE NOW AND ZEN EPICURE. Nishimoto, Miyoko . An elaborate, elegant and somewhat complex collection of vegan recipes.
THE GRADUAL VEGETARIAN. Tracy, Lisa. Separated into three phases 1) Chicken, fish and dairy 2) Fish and dairy 3) vegan. Addresses strategies, sweeteners and allergies too.
THE VEGETARIAN TIMES COOKBOOK. Ideas about what to have in the house, cooking to maintain nutrition and over 400 recipes.
SIMPLY VEGAN. Wasserman, Debra. Very basic and easy to prepare vegan recipes.
Best-Ever Vegetarian: The Definitive Cook's Collection
This book assembles over 200 of the world's best vegetarian dishes from all over the world to celebrate the diversity of choice in a vegetarian diet. Divided into seven sections: Soups, Appetizers, Salads, Side Dishes, Light Lunches, Suppers and Special Occasions, the book explores the various tastes and textures of vegetarian cuisines.
Cooking Vegetarian: Healthy, Delicious, and Easy Vegetarian Cuisine. Melina, Vesanto; Forest, Joseph. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1998.
Featuring more than 150 recipes for wonderful fare from breakfast to special occasions. This book also provides advice on healthy vegetarian cooking/eating every day, plus complete nutritional facts. Eight color illustrations.
Ecological Cooking. Stepaniak, Joanne & Kecker, Kathy. The Book Publishing Co., 1991.
Haedrich offers over 250 recipes that consider such important issues as: Does it taste good? Will my family eat it? Can I prepare this in a reasonable amount of time? Are the ingredients easy to find? And, is it healthy and balanced?
Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook
A handbook of vegetarian cookery and nutrition that provides lots of useful information including research findings that support an optimal diet, food group guide for creative meal planning, nutrient needs for all ages and some illnesses, a breakdown of micronutrient food sources, and RDA’s.
Glorious Roots: Recipes for Healthy, Tasty Vegetables. Sombke, Laurence. MasterMedia Ltd., 1992.
Indian Vegetarian Cooking at Your House. Humbad, Sunetra. The Book Publishing Co., 1995.
Simple, delicious Indian recipes including chutneys, salads, grains, and desserts. Also includes a glossary of unusual ingredients.
Introducing Vegetarian Cookery. Westooft, Alison. Ashgrove Press, 1991.
How to make soups, appetizers, main courses, and desserts bursting with flavor, color and texture without much fuss.
May All Be Fed: 'a Diet For A New World : Including Recipes By Jia Patton And Friends. Robbins, John. William Morrow & Co. Inc., 1992.
Information about where our food comes from, how our food choices affect us as well as the Earth, and delicious vegan whole food recipes.
Murrieta Hot Springs Vegetarian Cookbook. Murrieta Foundation. The Book Publishing Co., 1987.
Tasty recipes to suit three diets: the purifying diet, the health building diet, and the gourmet vegetarian diet.
The Meatless Gourmet. Hinman, Bobbie. Prima Publishing, 1995.
Favorite recipes from around the world – Mexico, the Caribbean, Italy, idle East, Eastern Europe, India, and the Orient. Good section on cooking and storing grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Also includes a good list of spices, their descriptions, and uses. Each ethnic section has a page of information on the food culture of that country, plus suggested menus in addition to numerous recipes. This book is not whole food focused but is easily adaptable if looking for ethnic vegetarian recipes.
The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook. Hagler, Louise & Bates, Dorothy. Book Publishing Co., 1989.
The Farm, a vegetarian community, pioneered much of what we know about vegan nutrition and soyfoods. First published in 1975, this book has been updated for the 90’s with lower salt and fat. Includes information on to how to make tofu and soymilk as well as other basic recipes for a vegan kitchen.
The World in Your Kitchen. Wells, Troth. The Crossing Press, 1993.
Vegetarian recipes from Africa, Asia, and Latin America for Western kitchens.
Vegetarian Fast Food: Over 200 Delicious Dishes in Minutes. Elliot, Rose. Random House, 1995.
Each recipe in this cookbook is healthy and original, and each takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. 36 color illustrations.
100 Low Fat Vegetable and Legume Recipes. Netzer, Corinne T. Bantam, 1997.
This cookbook features healthy and delicious recipes complete with full nutritional breakdowns on calories, fat, sodium, cholesterol, protein, and carbohydrates. Not only does it provide recipes for soups, salads, and main courses that are entirely vegetarian, it also includes recipes for dishes where beans and vegetables provide a healthy complement to meat and fish.
Raw: The Uncook Book. Lenkert, Erika; Brotman, Juliano. Regan Books, 1999.
New vegetarian food for life. Raw is the first major guide to preparing gourmet raw cuisine.
The Garden of Eden Raw. Avery, Phyllis. Hygeia Publishing Co., 1992.
Delicious vegan recipes including hor’ doeuvres, fruit and vegetable drinks, nut and seed milks, fruit dishes, fruit syrups, dips, soups, and more.
The Raw Gourmet. Shannon, Nomi & Clement, Brian. Alive Books, 1998.
Conscious Conception, Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality, Baker, Jeannine Parvati, and Frederick Baker and Tamara Slayton, 1986, Freestone Publishing Company, 960 S Ross Lane, Sevier, UT 84966
Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy Naturally, Guay, Terrie, 1978. Possibly available through Emergence, 185 Beacon Books, Ashland OR 97250
The Personal Fertility Guide, The Natural Way to Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy, Guay, Terrie, 1980, 1986, Beaufort Books, New York, NY.
The Ovulation Method: Cycles of Fertility, Guren, Denise and Nealy Gillette, 1977
The Fertility Awareness Workbook, Kass-Annese, Barbara and Hal Danzor, 1986, by Printed Matter, Inc., P.O. Box 15246, Atlanta, GA 30333
A Cooperative Method of Natural Birth Control, Nofziger, Margaret, 1976, by The Book Publishing Company, 156 Drakes Lane, Summertown, TN 38483
Signs of Fertility: the Personal Science of Natural Birth Control, Nofziger, Margaret, 1988, by MND Publishing Inc, P.O. Box 210813, Nashville
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson
The Five love languages of Children by Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell
Love and Logic, Magic for Early Childhood (Practical parenting from birth to 6 years) by Jim Fay & Charles Fay
The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg
The Happiest Baby on the Block –the new way to calm crying & help your baby sleep by Harvery Karp
Kids are Worth It—giving your child the gift of inner discipline by Barbara Coloroso
Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Kline
Positive Discipline—the first three years by Jane Nelson et al
The Nursing Mother's Companion: Revised Edition
How Weaning Happens by Diane Bengson
Hypnobirthing—a celebration of life by Marie Mongan (can’t read my writing; it could be Marie Morgan)
Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives
The Vaccine Guide by Randall Newstaedter
The Vaccination Dilemma by Christine Murphy
The Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children & Infants by Mary Bove
Superimmunity for Kids by Leo Galland
The Baby Book—from birth to age two by William Sears (our guest said that it is a series, and that there is a book about complementary and alternative medicine by the same author)
Sign With Your Baby by Joseph Garcia
The Patient's Guide to Homeopathic Medicine
Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Optimum Health
Eating Well For Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating by Andrew Weil, MD, 2001.
American Heart Association: To Your Health! A Guide to Heart-Smart Living by the American Heart Association, 2001.
American Heart Association Quick & Easy Cookbook : More Than 200 Healthful Recipes You Can Make in Minutes by the American Heart Association, 2001.
The Cooking Cardiologist by Dr. Richard Collins, 1999.
8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil, MD, 1997.
Vegetarian Cooking for Healthy Living : An Ultra Low-Fat Nutrition Guide for Living Well by Mary Ter Meer and Jamie Gates Galeana, 1997.
Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish: 150 Easy, Low-Fat, High-Flavor Recipes by Dean Ornish, MD, 1997.
American Heart Association Fitting in Fitness : Hundreds of Simple Ways to Put More Physical Activity into Your Life by the American Heart Association, 1997.
Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
Heart and Soul: A Psychological Guide to Preventing and Healing Heart Disease, by Bruno Cortis, MD, 1995.
