New Whole Foods Encyclopedia

Description

By Rebecca Wood
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780143117438
480 pages, 6.25 x 8.50″

The author provides an alphabetical listing of more than 1000 whole foods: grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, seaweeds, fungi, sweeteners, fats, oils, herbs, and spices. Entries include historical information, health benefits, uses, and buying guidelines. Sidebars throughout the text contain interesting anecdotes, recipes, and even the occasional poem. Wood includes a helpful section on how to store whole foods and a list of mail-order sources. She derives her information about the healing properties of foods from a combination of Western nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, and Indian Ayurvedic medicine. The book is filled with practical information that would be useful to anyone wanting to further their food horizons.