Product Description
As the executive chef-in-residence at one of the country’s leading cancer wellness centers, Rebecca Katz knows that cancer patients and their caretakers want science-based recipes that are tasty, healthful, and easy to prepare. This book features whole-foods and big-flavor recipes designed to ease symptoms along with customized menu plans specially formulated for all treatment phases, cancer types, side effects, and flavor preferences. THE CANCER-FIGHTING KITCHEN includes full nutritional analysis for each recipe and notes that teach readers how to build a culinary cancer-fighting pharmacy.
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery
Originally posted 2009-10-28 22:43:07.
Wednesday, 28. October 2009
This is TRULY the book I’ve been waiting years for!! I am an Integrative Oncology Nurse who’s passion is to empower people being treated for cancer to take charge of their health and “The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen” cookbook is a GREAT tool in this regards. It is so thorough, filled with concrete helpful tidbits to help ease many of the side effects of chemotherapy in natural ways – which I find more and more people are searching for….. all “wrapped” in a package of beautiful, mouthwatering pictures. The presentation is easy to understand, categorized so nicely and filled with humor, heartwarming introductions that make you feel as if she’s right there with you as you cook your way to health and give your body the support it needs. Rebecca Katz has given us (as health care practioner’s) a real “gift” to suggest to our patients and their family members or caregivers, so they can know there is alot they CAN do to heal themselves on the journey from “illness to wellness”.
Rating: 5 / 5
Thursday, 29. October 2009
The Cancer Fighting Kitchen is empowering to anyone who wants to get some control over this horrible disease and resulting treatment- whether they have been diagnosed with caner or not. Rebecca’s book provides a wealth of information that everyone can put to use in their daily lives to help in the fight against cancer— who knew that something as easy as a pinch of cinnamon could make a difference. Rebecca’s anecdotes are food to the soul. The recipes are not overwhelming and breathe life and taste into simple foods that are healthful. I even got my kids to eat green beans and enjoy them for the first time and it only took a shallot, basil and some lemon!
Rating: 5 / 5
Thursday, 29. October 2009
This is book is so much more than just a cookbook. I purchased this for myself and for a friend who has a brother currently undergoing cancer treatment. When the book arrived in the mail, we sat down on the front steps of my house and flipped through the pages together. We were drawn in by how delicious the recipes sounded and looked throughout, and quickly found that beyond the recipes this book is a wonderful step-by-step guide to how one can put the kitchen to work in healing and the wellness of others. This book briefly discusses research that has been conducted with regard to food and cancer, the healing properties of ingredients found in these recipes, strategies for eating before and after treatment, and how caregivers can set up support teams for patients so that no individual feels overwhelmed by the care giving task. There is even a resource guide at the back of the book that provides a myriad of sources for people to turn to for cancer support and food information. We were blown away by the breadth of information contained inside. There are recipes to suit all taste buds and for someone who does not have cancer but likes to eat for good health, like me, this has also been a great resource. The recipes tried so far have been delicious.
Five stars to the author for handling a heavy topic with sensitivity and smarts. I wish this cookbook had been published years ago! A must read.
Rating: 5 / 5
Thursday, 29. October 2009
“Cancer Fighting Kitchen” isn’t just a cookbook; nor is another treatise on nutritional philosophy. It’s indeed a cookbook, but so much more. Now that I’ve spent a couple of days with it, I know it’s a nutritional arsenal with the kind of firepower that’s perfect for what can seem like a tough assignment: cooking for someone going through cancer treatment. But whether you’re cooking for someone who really needs to eat well in order to heal– or you just want to understand how the food you eat influences your overall health and wellness, this is an amazing find. The recipes look and sound simple and delicious — I can’t wait to cook my way through all of them. This is the perfect follow-up to “One Bite at a Time” — my first real friend in the kitchen when I needed a whole new way to look at cooking. I’ve cooked my way through it over the last three or four years, and I’m ready for the next step and this is it. Her Magic Mineral Broth is an amazing elixir that aids in whatever ails you — I’ve made gallons of it, and now I’m thrilled to see two new takes on the basic recipe in this book.
This time Rebecca Katz offers us lots of easily digestible nutritional science along with recipes that look so tempting that I can almost taste and smell them just from the photos. But it is her disarming and sympathetic humor that leads you into each chapter and recipe with a little smile of recognition and a tidbit of personal insight. The Culinary Pharmacy section in her “Cancer fighting Toolkit” is worth the purchase price alone. It’s a virtual encyclopedia of what we’re all trying to learn about ingredients that add health-supportive magic to what we slave over in the kitchen. At a time when food TV is busily persuading us that cooking is something between a spectator sport and a reality show, this book points us back to what preparing food should be — a loving spoonful of something special and sustaining. You don’t need to be a patient or a caregiver to appreciate all that is in these pages, but if you are, this book is an amazing gift.
Rating: 5 / 5