The Healing Patch Cookbook: A gentle transition from cooked to raw foods, with a taste of joyful wit - Softcover

Hoffenberg, Julie Cara; Woodward, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578028131 ISBN 13: 9780578028132

Publisher: Healing Patch Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The Healing Patch Cookbook is the perfect guide for transitioning into a more healthful lifestyle. It brings the reader through a gentle, humorous, and self-loving journey from cooked to raw food. This cookbook suits everyone from the seasoned raw foodist looking for deeper connection with their diet, to the newbie who needs help taking their first step into the world of raw food! While many health experts come from a restrictive view with a specific protocol, Julie and Sarah remain open as they guide the reader to become more intuitive and self-sufficient with their health. Complete with a few cooked transitional recipes, loads of raw food recipes, and gorgeous photos, The Healing Patch Cookbook is a superb blend of everything people need to guide themselves to their most divine level of health. Not only are the recipes clear, the first half of the book is loaded with information to help people along their way. The authors gift the readers with a joyous new connection to themselves, their plate, and the planet. Raw food becomes something deeper than itself; a new energy, a new consciousness, a new life!

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Cara Hoffenberg and Sarah Woodward, founders of The Healing Patch Raw Cuisine, are two gals with vastly different backgrounds. Their differences create a perfect balance to help people along their way to a healthier lifestyle. Friends and family of Julie call her the health nut and joke that she is full of the most random health tidbits on the planet! She has over seven years of experience in the natural health field and also holds an education degree, which enables her to clearly and simply guide people through their health transitions. Sarah s family refers to her as the miracle , as she is a survivor of ovarian cancer. Her unique approach to healing, combined with raw foods, resulted in a new life of divine health. While most women do not survive ovarian cancer (and those who do feel less than great), Sarah is living proof that balancing the emotional and physical aspects of life can bring unexpected incredible outcomes to assumed impossibilities! Julie and Sarah are the authors of The Healing Patch Cookbook: A gentle transition from cooked to raw food, with a taste of joyful wit. In addition to helping people gain greater health and vitality through their book, they are also available for one-on-one consultations.

Review:

HOMESPUN VEGETARIAN The Healing Patch Cookbook: A Gentle Transition from Cooked to Raw Foods Sometimes the most difficult part of adopting a new way of eating is getting started. You want to cut down on your sugar intake, or eat more fresh food instead of packaged, or keep an eye on your calorie count...but taking the first step can be a little intimidating. One of the biggest dietary jumps of all is when a standard omnivore/carnivore tries to go vegetarian. And the stakes are even higher when the target diet is not only vegan-no food of any kind from animal sources-but raw as well. The authors of The Healing Patch Cookbook, who operate an online seed store and blog of the same name (rawhealingpatch.com), understand those concerns. They ve made that difficult transition themselves, coming from totally different directions. Julie Hoffenberg got hooked on the raw vegetarian lifestyle after working seven years in the natural health field. Sarah Woodward s switch in diet was made under more dire circumstances: She has survived a bout of ovarian cancer. The Healing Patch Cookbook holds up the cookbook part of its title with a number of tasty-sounding recipes, all thoughtfully labeled cooked vegetarian, raw vegetarian or raw vegan. And the authors provide lists of kitchen staples and recommended readings, along with a ton of useful tips. But this playful, deeply personal book also serves as a reflection of Hoffenberg s and Woodward s belief that [t]here is no one, specific way to be a vegetarian. They encourage you to find your path to healthy raw vegetarian eating by becoming aware of how and why you eat the way you do. Food relationships are important to analyze, the authors write. They help us decipher why we have cravings and addictions. You might not become a raw vegan. But if The Healing Patch Cookbook helps you understand and change your dietary patterns, it will have been worth your while. --Lisa James, Energy Times Magazine

I invite you to read this passage in Julie and Sarah's book it really touched me! The book is not only a cookbook but it is inspirational. This is the first cookbook that I have ever purchased that I could not put down once I started reading. You ve got to check this out. Julie and Sarah thank you for this wonderful cookbook . I can't wait to begin trying the recipes. "I do not believe that, in this society, we can become fully compassionate, conscious beings without deeply questioning the food we eat. But that does not mean any of us are to blame for the illnesses we might experience. I m talking about greater self responsibility here, not greater guilt. None of us should ever be made to feel a failure for becoming sick, or for failing to cure ourselves. None of us should ever be made to feel that we are letting ourselves or anyone else down if we become ill. Eating healthfully raises your odds of being well. It greatly reduces your risk of many diseases, and it opens the door to experiencing new levels of joy and passion and purpose in your body. But it cannot guarantee that you won t become ill. The research undeniably shows that vegetarian and low meat diets create lives with less disease, but there are numerous paths to take and many of them will keep you healthy." ~ by Sarah and Julie ~ --Gloria P., I.C. Anonymous

About this edition

• Publisher: Healing Patch Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0578028131
• ISBN 13: 9780578028132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133
• Editor: Sindon Deborah, Woodward Heather, Woodward Vincente E.