A compilation of recipes from over a hundred different authors, this book has remained faithful to the personality behind each recipe. For instance, we have kept most of the text in the first person, and have retained many of the authors' personal comments. Where recipes call for additional cooking, it is for a purpose such as preventing food contamination, or concentrating jams, jellies, and so on. Maximum flavor and nutritional value are retained. Methods have been tested and are easy for families to try out.
Ingredients are whole or minimally processed, and locally grown, apart from a few exceptions.
Terre Vivante hosts courses on regenerative gardening and farming, renewable energy, and ecological building techniques. In addition to more than fifty books, Terre Vivante publishes the influential organic gardening magazine, Les Quatre Saisons du jardinage . Terre Vivante is a nonprofit association founded in 1980 to promote a way of life that is respectful of the natural environment. Until the early 1990s, Terre Vivante's main activity was the publication of an organic gardening magazine, Les Quatre Saisons du jardinage . Although the effects of pollution can now be traced throughout the world, at Terre Vivante the malign impacts of human development are being minimized.