For last minute gifts, nothing quite fills the bill like books- particularly cookbooks because they are a gift that keeps on giving for months.. even years. So I bring you a range of 3 different cookbooks and they range from vegan pies and tarts to healthy super-foods to an anti-aging/healthy food book that could have you losing every pound (and then some) you put on this holiday season.
Pies and Tarts with Heart is an interesting blend of sweet and savory pies and tarts with unique ingredients that will leave you swooning. Dynise Balcavage is the author of Celebrate Vegan, Urban Vegan and Pies and Tarts with Heart
Balcavage’s cruelty-free recipes have appeared in VegNews, Vegetarian Times, Philadelphia Daily News and Végétariens magazine (in French). Dynise has been interviewed in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and has done cooking demonstrations across the globe, from New York to Paris. She teaches food writing at New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute and is an avid runner and traveler. She lives in Philadelphia with her 2 former alley cats. She blogs at urbanvegan.net and tweets and vines at theurbanvegan.
Available at most bookstores, also ebooks like Kindle and online! It’s definitely a great cookbook that will appeal to everyone! MSRP: $25.00
Peruvian Powerfoods: 18 Superfoods, 101 Recipes and Anti-Aging Secrets from the Amazon to the Andes!
This is one unique book and will get the adventurous cooks and eaters attention pretty swiftly. This is a book that’s more than a cookbook and definitely worth the time buying and perusing it. Leave it out as coffee table book but also plan on getting messy with it too!
Written by Manuel Villacorta and Jamie Shaw this book is both a guide to the flavors of the various countries that are resources for these power foods as well as the how-to on how to cook them. It’s almost a travel manual as well.
A nationally recognized, award-winning registered dietitian with more than 16 years of experience as a nutritionist, Manuel Villacorta, M.S., R.D., is a respected and trusted voice in the health and wellness industry. He is the founder of Eating Free, an international weight management and wellness program, and one of the leading weight loss and nutrition experts in the country. He is the author of Eating Free: The Carb-Friendly Way to Lose Inches, Embrace Your Hunger, and Keep the Weight off for Good (HCI, May 2012) and Peruvian Power Foods: 18 Superfoods, 101 Recipes, and Anti-aging Secrets from the Amazon to the Andes (HCI, October 2013).
As the nation becomes more aware of healthful eating, a new class of ingredients dubbed superfoods is entering the public consciousness. These foods are some of the most nutrient-rich, high-benefit foods known to man. Long limited to their native Andes and Amazonian regions, these precious resources are now being imported to the U.S. and Eating Free is making them available to you!
Peru is “The New Superfood Capital of the World.” While superfoods have entered the health food conversation in recent years, those fruits, seeds, oils and vegetables from the Andes and the Amazon region represent the most powerful such foods on the planet.
We define superfoods as hardworking functional foods that far surpass basic nutritional content. They are, quite simply, the cleanest, most powerful, antioxidant-rich, anti-aging foods available anywhere. Proving tremendous health benefits form heart health, brain health, boost immune system, bone health, increasing energy and strength, increasing sexual drive and helping with erectile dysfunction. Please read each product to learn what they can do for your health.
To make things easy, check our online EatingFree.com before hunting around online. This site carries a good many of the power foods we reference, so it’s they’re a good starting point.
• PICHUBERRY: Ideal for weight loss, tissue repair, and heart health; great for someone with diabetes as it has a low glycemic index (25); contains anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties.
• MACA: Increases sexual drive, energy, strength, and stamina, a great pre-exercise fuel. Improves fertility, decreases menstrual issues & menopause, helps to control anemia.
• CACAO: Aids in diabetes, cholesterol, and weight management; antioxidant and anticancer properties, promotes brain and heart health, mood booster.
• KIWICHA (AMARANTH): Great source of protein, aid in heart health, reducing cholesterol, and regulation of blood pressure, involved in anti-aging processes.
• CAMU CAMU: Excellent source of vitamin C (60 times more than an orange), which aids in anti-inflammatory & anti-carcinogenic functions, immune function, protection of the nervous system, heart health, and optimal brain performance, as well as maintaining healthy gums, eyes, and skin.
• PURPLE CORN: Strong antioxidant promoting anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer processes, improves vision and brain health, aids in the prevention of long term Diabetes-related damage.
• SACHA INCHI: Great source of Omega-3 fatty acids as well as antioxidants that aid in brain health, anti-inflammatory properties, and heart health.
• LUCUMA: Low glycemic index (25) ideal for diabetes control; anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and anti-aging properties; supports immune system, heart health, and skin health.
• YACON SYRUP: Promotes stimulation of probiotics involved in digestion health by regulating intestinal flora that could lead to relief from constipation, increased colon health, and increased absorption of calcium, magnesium, & B vitamins; low glycemic index (1) that can help with blood sugar control; promotes weight loss.
• QUINOA: A complete protein that is high in fiber that helps to regulate blood sugar and can aid in weight loss; has anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties; promotes brain, heart and bone health.
• BEANS: High in fiber to help with heart health, lowering cholesterol, controlling blood sugar, gut health, and having anti-cancer properties.
You can find this book at all the usual places (and then some) like the EatingFree.com online store where the Peruvian Powerfoods book retails for $18.95!
What’s interesting is the turn-around menus and food choices all of these cookbooks espouse and will provide you with some fun and interesting dishes to make. Not only are they tasty, but they are not as hard to make once you get used the to rhythm of the food prep.
If these books don’t do it for you, there are TONS of great cookbooks out there and I would certainly recommend Sunset Magazine subscriptions if only for the food inspiration too!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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Yummy tarts! Looks delicious!
hehehe, please don’t send me any cookbooks! I have shelves full of them. But, I do love getting a good novel!
Fiona.. I can send you some novels and non-fiction.. 🙂
Yacon syrup is new to me.. now i need to try it. Vegan has come a long way, baby. It is so popular now I can’t believe all the kinds of people trying it..the power of Bill Clinton..