Cooking To Conceive the Inconceivable: One Chef's Journey to Fertile Fatherhood - Softcover

Edward N. Baum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966007832 ISBN 13: 9780966007831

Publisher: Adell Press, 2018

Synopsis

When Edward Baum and his wife, Julia, were told that Julia's soaring hormones signaled the end of her childbearing years, the couple set out on a quest to challenge that prognosis. Baum, a Culinary Institute of America graduate, became not just the supportive husband, but the executive chef in a plan to eat for optimal fertility and to cook the comforting meals that would carry them through the anxiety and frustration of their journey. Baum began his career at the storied La Caravelle in New York City and also ran his own restaurant.

In Cooking to Conceive the Inconceivable: One Chef's Journey to Fertile Fatherhood, Baum offers a first-time glimpse into the struggle to beat the odds against infertility from a male partner's perspective and a chef's view of how food can be both medicine and an expression of love.

The book also includes accounts by four other men who struggled with infertility, and a foreword by Marc Goldstein, MD, DSc (hon) FACS, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Weil Cornell Medical College.

Cooking to Conceive the Inconceivable is a companion book to Inconceivable, written by his wife, fertility educator and advocate Julia Indichova.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Baum is the co-founder of Fertile Heart, L.L.C. a patient driven online community focused on whole-person approaches to reproductive healthcare. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. His contributions as a chef, musician, videographer, photographer, graphic artist, editor and programmer, have made FertileHeart.com one of the most trusted resources for people seeking a health-affirming path to family building. He lives with his family in New York s Hudson Valley.

Review

It s the level of honesty in examining his own heart and mind that makes Edward Baum s Cooking to Conceive the Inconceivable such a profound, funny, refreshingly candid book. As a clinician I also applaud the inclusion of additional case histories which offer the reader a compelling view of their many treatment options. --Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAC Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

A much-needed book for couples of all genders, inspiring them to face a diagnosis as partners intent on being there for each other and strengthening the bonds of their relationship. It is now on the must read list for all my patients searching for guidance with a challenging life crisis. --Marc Goldstein, MD, DSC (hon), FACS Surgeon-in-Chief, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery

It s funny that as we delve deeper into the hard science and genetics of male infertility, diet and lifestyle seem to matter more than ever. As Chef Baum dances poignantly through a life of food and cooking, mixing his personal history into every recipe, he raises to a high art the concept of good nutrition, one of the unsung treatments for male infertility. --Paul Turek, MD Director, The Turek Clinics, Los Angeles

Edition details

• Publisher: Adell Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0966007832
• ISBN 13: 9780966007831
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215