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Great if you are a hppie living in Berkeley!!!

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I ordered this book for my son who is one year old and has severe allergies to dairy, eggs and nuts. I thought this would be a wonderful cookbook to make him recipes with...Boy was I wrong! Most of the recipes are listed several times within the book, making the description of 450 recipes a joke! Not to mention the ingredients she lists are so far out of reach for any normal Joe living in the city or remote country area...they just aren't available in my state(trust me, I have exhausted my resources trying!) And when I was actually able to find the ingredients to MAKE the recipe...it turned out less than bland, it was gruel! I figured if I didn't even want to eat it based on the appearance alone, my son wasn't going to have anything to do with it...so I tasted it and realized the taste was just as bad if not worse. Definitely not the book for someone who is just starting on a vegetarian or restricted-diet journey. My husband recommended throwing it in the trash, but I am not about to throw away something I paid almost $20 for!!!

Recipes that will make you glow from the inside out.

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Meridith McCarty has written a marvelous cookbook that satisfies various niches: it is a macrobiotic cookbook, but would also suit vegetarians who are not finding the peaceful energy that comes from balancing foods properly & cooking them according to methods used for thousands of years by our ancestors. How can you bake bread without yeast (which most of us are allergic to)? How do you cook esoteric grains such as quinoa, buckwheat & amaranth? How do you incorporate sea vegetables into your diet without scaring your family? Oh, and if you enjoy "reading" cookbooks as if they were novels, you'll learn how our ancestors (recipes are from throughout the world) made homey, hearty, & ultimately nourishing meals & desserts from simple ingredients & utensils. A must for anyone trying to "get back to nature" or needing a bit of inspiration beyond the typical macrobiotic diet.