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Simple Food for the Good Life

Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations

by Helen Nearing

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader ix
Part One - Simple Food for Simple People
1 : How & Why I Came to Write about Food & Cookery 3
2 : The Work of Cooking: Need It Be Drudgery? 17
3 : To Cook or Not to Cook: Raw Versus Cooked Food 25
4 : To Kill or Not to Kill: Flesh Foods Versus Plants 37
5 : Complicate or Simplify: Processed Versus Fresh Foods 57
Part Two - Preparing the Good Food
6 : On Recipes in General 71
7 : Break Fast with Breakfast? 83
8 : Soups & Soups & Soups 97
9 : Salads for Health 127
10 : Vegetables for Vigor 149
11 : Herbs & Other Seasonings 191
12 : Leftovers & Casseroles 203
13 : Baked Goods & Over-Starching 225
14 : Desserts & Other Delicious Delights 243
15 : Water & Other Beverages 267
16 : Storing & Preserving the Good Food 279
Index 293