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by Anne-Marie Fryer Wiboltt
A heart-centered, warmth-filled
guide to the nurturing art of cooking. |
We are very pleased to carry our friend Anne-Marie's beautiful new book - it is as warmth-filled and joyful as she! This book is a gift to any reader, arising as it does from Anne-Marie's deep understanding of anthroposophical cosmology and nutrition.
Anne-Marie takes her readers on a seasonal journey through the garden. But while one could fill one's shelves with seasonal based cookbooks, Anne-Marie gives practical exercises, based in the garden (or farmers' market!) and kitchen, showing us how the foods we choose to cook can heighten our connection to the cycle of the year. The book is full of contemplative and artistic exercises designed to help us develop our connectedness both to the Earth and the Heavens as we take up our sacred task of preparing food for ourselves and our families.
In his forward, Robert Sardello writes:
By far the most significant aspect of paying this kind of new attention to the natural world in relation to food and eating is to begin, slowly, to live into the element of rhythm that characterizes the movements of the cosmos, the earth, and the human body. The rhythms of the days, seasons, the years, of morning, noon, evening, of waking and sleeping, and of expansion and contraction, intertwine with the rhythms of plant life. These natural rhythms and their relationships one to another are severely disrupted, so it is hardly surprising that pathologies of eating are rampant, ranging from the obvious epidemic of obesity to the more secret epidemics of anorexia and bulimia. Neither psychological answers nor fewer carbs nor fast-food lettuce and tomatoes rather than fast-food hamburgers are likely to do much, because all of these ways of trying to address eating pathologies neglect the necessary element of rhythm. More than anything else, this book is about refinding our place in the great natural motions of the cosmos as manifested in the growth of the foods we eat. Eating can be a way of coming home to our place within the cosmos.
Those of you inspired by Nourishing Traditions perspectives on nutrition will find much that is familiar in this book (though Anne-Marie is a bit sparse with dairy products) as will anyone who is interested in a whole-foods based healthy diet. Many of the recipes have a macrobiotic ring to them and though there are a number of dishes including dairy or other animal products, vegans will find plenty of recipes as well.
Read an introduction to the book by Anne-Marie (PDF).