Many of you might already be familiar with
Heidi Swanson and her blog
101 Cookbooks. She began her journey in 2003 cooking her way through her massive cookbook collection and chronicling her adventures in wholesome, natural cooking on her blog, illustrating each post with her airy, light-filled photos. Her latest cookbook,
Super Natural Every Day is filled with nourishing, vegetable and grain heavy recipes, the sort of inspired dishes that elevate vegetarian cooking to something truly incredible. Enter here to win a copy.
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If you've been following along with this week's Cook the Book feature, you'll have gotten to know the kinds of foods that cookbook author and longtime food blogger Heidi Swanson loves to make and share with readers. But we wanted to know a little more about
her. So she's the subject of this week's Meet & Eat.
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Alaina mentioned earlier today that we'd be giving away five (5) copies of Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking. Don't let the subtitle scare you. Swanson's book is full of recipes that are good for you without sacrificing flavor. And if you're new to this style of cooking, there are primers galore throughout its pages. Anyway, if you want to win a copy of this book, let us know what food you find most healthful and pleasurable at the same time. Leave your thoughts in the comments and we'll choose five winners at random at the end of the week. You have until 9 p.m. PDT Saturday to enter. Serious...
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I've had egg salad sandwiches foisted on me all my life at picnics despite the facts that a) I think they're gross and b) no one I know actually likes them. I mean, c'mon now—mushy cold eggs and mayo on soggy bread, what's to like? Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks hates egg salad sandwiches so much she went and made a good one, something I didn't think was possible. Add a little bit of chopped bacon, and I'll be happy to eat it!...
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In Salon today, Sarah Karnasiewicz interviews Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks about her own new cookbook, Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking: The problem I started to notice was that often, beyond the fruits and vegetables and artisan meats I'd see customers buying, the foundation ingredients that people used to cook or support their farmers market finds were still heavily processed -- like nutritionally barren flours and grains, highly refined sugars, jams and jellies, or nut butters made from heavily sprayed crops, and industrially produced cooking oils.So in a way, the cookbook grew naturally out of what I was doing in my own kitchen. I'd decided that I wanted the supporting...
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