Simple Food for the Good LifeFifty years before the phrase "simple living" became fashionable, Helen and Scott Nearing were living their celebrated "Good Life" on homesteads first in Vermont, then in Maine. All the way to their ninth decades, the Nearings grew their own food, built their own buildings, and fought an eloquent combat against the silliness of America's infatuation with consumer goods and refined foods. They also wrote or co-wrote more than thirty books, many of which are now being brought back into print by the Good Life Center and Chelsea Green. Simple Food for the Good Life is a jovial collection of "quips, quotes, and one-of-a-kind recipes meant to amuse and intrigue all of those who find themselves in the kitchen, willingly or otherwise." Recipes such as Horse Chow, Scott's Emulsion, Crusty Carrot Croakers, Raw Beet Borscht, Creamy Blueberry Soup, and Super Salad for a Crowd should improve the mood as well as whet the appetite of any guest. Here is an antidote for the whole foods enthusiast who is "fed up" with the anxieties and drudgeries of preparing fancy meals with stylish, expensive, hard-to-find ingredients. This celebration of salads, leftovers, raw foods, and homegrown fruits and vegetables takes the straightest imaginable route from their stem or vine to your table. "The funniest, crankiest, most ambivalent cookbook you'll ever read," said Food & Wine magazine. "This is more than a mere cookbook," said Health Science magazine: "It belongs to the category of classics, destined to be remembered through the ages." Among Helen Nearing's numerous books is Chelsea Green's Loving and Leaving the Good Life, a memoir of her fifty-year marriage to Scott Nearing and the story of Scott's deliberate death at the age of one hundred. Helen and Scott Nearing's final homestead in Harborside, Maine, has been established in perpetuity as an educational progam under the name of The Good Life Center. |
Contents
Part One Simple Food for Simple People | 1 |
How Why I Came to Write about Food Cookery | 3 |
Need It Be Drudgery? | 17 |
Raw Versus Cooked Food | 25 |
Flesh Foods Versus Plants | 37 |
Processed Versus Fresh Foods | 57 |
Part Two Preparing the Good Food | 69 |
On Recipes in General | 71 |
Salads for Health | 127 |
Vegetables for Vigor | 149 |
Herbs Other Seasonings | 191 |
Leftovers Casseroles | 203 |
Baked Goods OverStarching | 225 |
Desserts Other Delicious Delights | 243 |
Water Other Beverages | 267 |
Storing Preserving the Good Food | 279 |
Other editions - View all
Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations Helen Nearing Limited preview - 1990 |
Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations Helen Nearing Limited preview - 1990 |
Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations Helen Nearing No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat Howard F. Lyman Limited preview - 2001 |