Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet
“If you want to learn how to make a variety of delicious primal masterpieces in your own kitchen then you’ll find Primal Cuisine a handy edition to your recipe book collection. However if you want to go a step further and expand your knowledge to include our evolutionary heritage with regards to nutrition and health and the link between how our ancestors ate to becoming a guide for ‘the proper nutrition for modern humans’ then you will thoroughly enjoy this read!” (Under the Primal Influence Blog, October 2013)“The author, Pauli Halstead, is a long-time chef and caterer, and it shows in her cookbook. Her recipes look and sound gourmet, but are easy enough for the average home cook to follow.” (Poor and Gluten Free Blog, January 2013)“Primal Cuisineproves that one does not need to give up gourmet gustatory pleasures to enjoy a healthy, high-nutrition diet similar to the one humanity has evolved eating.” (Wisconsin Book Watch, January 2013)“Primal Cuisineoffers the home chef an indispensable tool of health empowerment. Each recipe represents one step away from the man-made world of sickness toward a life in balance with the remaining bounty of nature.” (Cate Shanahan, M.D., family medicine physician and author of Deep Nutrition)“Finally, the cookbook we’ve been waiting for. Just reading these recipes was satisfying--they’re dense with real food, rich with flavors, and luscious with that wonderful ingredient everyone else has shunned: fat.” (Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth)“...a fabulous book of recipes, based on healthy, primal nutrition, that will have you drooling as you head for the kitchen. From a healthy breakfast of Fried Eggs with Asparagus & Pecorino Romano or Wild Mushroom & Roasted Garlic Frittata, through Smoke Trout Paté, Curried Onion & Ginger Soup, Barbecued Chicken Salad, Mahi-Mahi Fish Tacos with Butter Lettuce Tortillas, and Lamb Shanks Adobo, to Nora’s Coconut Bliss Truffles and I Am Bright Avocado-Lime Pie, eating healthy becomes an exciting journey of delights.” (Anna Jedrziewski, Inannaworks.com, February 2013)“So not only does the book do an excellent and concise job of educating about how to select quality foods (Paleo diet or not), it’s also got some great recipes.” (Maria Rickert Hong, Maria Rickert Hong Blog, February 2013)“As a nutritionist, I particularly appreciate cookbooks that include important information about the health benefits of a particular diet plan in addition to appealing recipes.Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet, by chef Pauli Halstead, offers both...This cookbook and guide for eating a healthy primal diet includes a wide range of recipes for both the beginner and the gourmet cook. Chef Pauli Halstead has indeed done her homework and offers this guide to fun, wholesome, and nutritious meals, from appetizers to what she calls her dessert recipes: Perfect Ending.” (Yaakov Levine, NTP, Price Pottenger Journal, August 2013)“What do I like about this book? 1). I love the cover, the paper, the font, the lay-out and the size of it. It just feels good to hold and to read. 2). The FOOD! These recipes are clear and not too difficult but the emphasis is on that caterer’s magic touch – FLAVOR AND APPEARANCE. Follow Pauli’s lead and you’ll look like a sous-chef yourself! There are party platters here, as well as breakfast, salad dressings and desserts. 3). The first 40 pages are about food, health and why grains, sugars, food additives and bad fats are out. It’s not preachy, but perfect for some gentle coaching of readers wanting to know more of the WHY as well as the HOW. 4). There are 20 pages on stocking the pantry. Excellent resources are given as well as info on how to find real olive oil and the best spices and seasonings. 5). It’s a great gift book! My suggestion is to buy 10 copies and your holiday and Birthday shopping for a year are done! The price is only $19.95… A relief when so many books are topping $35 these days. Pauli and I share a lot about our health issues and life changes, as well as laughing at some behind-the-scenes looks at several of those dessert recipes! Buy it. Love it. Share it. You’ll like this one. ” (Beverly Meyer, On Diet and Health Blog, September 2013)“Mouthwatering recipes gorgeously photographed, Primal Cuisine is an invaluable nutritional health resource you won't want to live without!” (Jimmy Moore, author of 21 Life Lessons From Livin' La Vida Low-Carb)“Primal Cuisine provides a clear and straightforward guide to any beginner of the primal lifestyle and a fabulous tool for any well-seasoned primal aficionado. Pauli has written a heart- felt yet informative book that I highly recommend.” (Lauren A. Noel, ND )“As a passionate advocate for removing gluten from the American diet, Chef Pauli has hit a home run with Primal Cuisine.” (Frankie Boyer, host of the Frankie Boyer show)“Everyone should read this book. No kidding, we all need to experience the shock of finding out how iffy our food supply is, and how to get beyond it. You'll be "reading labels" after going through this gorgeous book, with its full-color dishes, like Endive "Spoons" and Curried Onion and Ginger Soup and Panna Cotta (ice cream). Junk food equals junk health, and Halstead's chapters are a clear guide to the Paleo diet (the kind our genes expect). Cholesterol problem? Overweight? Medical issues? It's mostly how we eat that got us there. Not a typical cookbook, PRIMAL CUISINE's recipes steer us away from toxins, carcinogens, gluten, carbs, sugar and trans-fats - and tastefully so! Here at last is the gourmet's handbook to health.” (Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., author of Time of the Quickening)