Cooked Alive! Life Savoring Whole Food Recipes to End Processed Food Dependence – coming Summer 2016

Cooked Alive! is a 13-chapter, 224-recipe cookbook passionately devoted to assisting modern consumers learn to love vegetables and fruits. It gives substance to the admonition made over and over by food authorities to “eat more vegetables and fruits.” It does this by providing original recipes that lift these foods, and especially vegetables, from the inferior outsider role they largely play now in everyday eating into “top gun” dish ingredient form. Cooked Alive!’s recipes accomplish this transformation through use of simple conservation-driven preparation and serving techniques. Capturing the vast—but now overwhelmingly and wantonly wasted—nutritional and flavoring capacity of vegetables and fruits, these conservation techniques convert vegetables and fruits into super nutritious and appealing foods. Built into common everyday dishes, conservation-powered vegetables and fruits serve to magnify the nutritional quality—and the health-building capacity—of common traditional dishes. Very importantly, they do so while maintaining the traditional appearance and attractiveness and, hence, the consumer acceptability, of the dishes.

As is clear from its title, Cooked Alive! is at the same time more than a cookbook. Along with providing attractive, workable, and genuinely healthful recipes, Cooked Alive! is also a timely and unique guidebook with a mission. Unlike virtually all other cookbooks, Cooked Alive! responds directly and emphatically to the widespread, indeed global, food quality crisis that is nowadays a matter of constant and anxious comment by both governmental and private authorities. It arms cooks—be they vegetarian, vegan, paleo, raw foods, gourmet, or conventional in cooking orientation—with the information, preparation techniques, and recipes they require to liberate themselves from dependence on nutritionally dead and chemically tainted processed foods, foods that have become deeply entrenched in the everyday eating habits of modern families with nothing less than devastating impact on health. Cooked Alive! provides cooks with information about why and how processed food dependence has developed and why it is so deadly. It equips cooks with the technical information cooks require to fully appreciate vegetables and fruits. It instructs them in conservation-focused preparation techniques for preparing vegetables and fruits. Thus armed, cooks are motivated and prepared to take advantage of the vegetable- and fruit-centered recipes Cooked Alive! supplies them. Yielding reliably attractive and tasty dishes that have potent nutritional content while being almost 100% free of fat-, refined sugar-, salt-, and chemically-laden processed food ingredients, Cooked Alive! recipes provide cooks with fully workable and effective means for taking control of their own health and that of their loved ones.