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For Michael Potter, a man who lives his life fully. Your passion drives you to make the world a better place, protecting the purity of the food we eat. With Eden Foods as your vehicle, you have shown the world that pure food is not only delicious but our birthright. For your passion, dedication and commitmentand for making many of my dreams come truethank you, thank you, thank you.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This is my fourth cookbook. I sometimes cant believe it. I didnt know I had one book in me, let alone four (with ideas for five and six rolling around in my head). Sure, my voice and knowledge are in these pages, but more important, at least to me, is the support and love that is extended to meconstantlyby the people around me. They work hard to create an atmosphere in which I can do my best work and I would be lost without them. John Keats said I am certain of nothing, save the holiness of the hearts affections. Truer words were never spoken.

Everybody needs someone who holds it all together. Michele Gambino, the glue of our operations, and my sanity, I am deeply grateful to you. Your skills, wisdom, perseverance, humor and love bless my life.

To Mary, Sue, Tina, Gayle, Elaine, Rob and Lois, for the truest and most loyal friendship. Your counsel, your wisdom, your confidence and your serenity are like fresh air to me.

To Cynthia, my best friend, for your unwavering love and wise advice. Our history has shown us that we can do anything. Every time I see you, I remember that. Thank you.

To Richard, thank you for hearing me. Thank you for your loyal, honest partnership and support, and for your respect and trust. I love you dearly.

To Sue Becker and everyone at Eden Foods. There are no words to express how deeply grateful I am to you for all that you do. Your loving support and friendship has made working together a dream.

To Susan Morano and all the brilliant minds at Suzannes Specialties: Thanks for sticking with me all these years. I love you guys.

To John Duff and Jeanette Egan and everyone at HPBooks, for all your guidance, encouragement, friendship and support. You have been with me from the start of this journey and I love you all. You are wonderful to work with and bring out the best in me.

To Jon, there are no words to express the joy that your music and friendship have brought to me as I wrote this book. My life has been blessed since you came into it. I love you.

To all my cherished mentors, friends and students, for keeping me true and teaching me to live open in love and place no conditions or judgments on others.

Finally to sweet Robert, my love, my other half, my hero... for making me prove myself, for making me the best I can be, for your inspired ideas, for keeping me honest, for holding my heart tenderly in your strong hands, for loving me for who and what I am... no matter what.

FOREWORD

The third of six company goals at Eden Foods, as articulated by myself in the summer of 1974, is To cultivate sound relationships with other organizations and individuals who are like-minded and involved in like pursuits.

Christina Pirello is such an individual, and consistent with the goals of this company we are blessed to have a dynamic working relationship with her in her efforts to help people rediscover the vegetable kingdom, its powers and order.

Christina and what she is doing are exceedingly rare. I am unaware of anyone else who is consistently accurate in presenting to society skillful, intuitively sound ways to choose and prepare food to accentuate its inherent energy and its nurturing and healing power. Christina cuts through the hype and spin of food selection and preparation. Her work transcends culinary art and becomes healing cooking.

When presented with the opportunity to team up with Christina we considered the fact that everything she tells folks is, in our opinion, on point and accurate. Her teaching is grounded in the principles of macrobiotics and warmed by her unique life experience. We could not pass up the uncommon chance to become part of a team supporting her in her endeavors.

Please allow Christina to help you move into the world of natural foods, a powerful arena of progressive change and a process of discovery, achievement, repair, prevention, health and happiness.

Michael J. Potter
President, Eden Foods, Inc.
Clinton, Michigan

INTRODUCTION

I love cooking. I love life in the kitchen. There isnt one aspect, one piece, one detail of the process of cooking that doesnt enchant me. I recently read an interview with Julia Child during which she was asked her feelings about the new phrase domestic arts being used to describe cooking. She said (indignantly) that she felt that it made life in the kitchen seem unimportant. She said cooking should be called what it is a life skill... that its importance should never be marketed nor trivialized.

For me, cooking is about far more than the process of combining ingredients so that we can eat a meal. Cooking is not just a time-consuming means to an end. Cooking itself is a healing, nourishing meditation. Cooking is how we make our love manifest.

By cooking, we share in the work that sustains our lives; we share in Mother Natures abundance. Gorgeous winter squash, its vibrant orange flesh as vivid as the sun that gave it color, hearty carrots as sweet as the earth that cradles them, leafy greens stretching luxuriously open to the raindrops that quench their thirst, whole cereal grains that wave in the gentle breeze that lifts them to maturity; our food is a gift from the earth that so generously sustains us. We sell ourselves short if we see cooking food as simply a way to feed our hungry tummies. Handling food is an expression of sincerity and appreciation for the gifts of our lives. We honor the ingredients, and each other, by preparing food with mindful consideration and open hearts.

Cooking provides a vehicle for making our lives whole. If we can find pleasure in the process of cooking, the shopping, the cleaning, the slicing and dicing, the sauting and simmering, instead of thinking that the joy comes only in the eating, when the work is complete, we experience joy for joys sake, not in anticipation of a reward. The true joy is in the journey. There is no end.

We have forgotten what truly nourishes us. If we disconnect with nature, our life grows dead and empty. To see food only as fuel to operate our bodies is to create profound impoverishment of the spirit. We can achieve intimacy no greater than that with our food. It joins with us, becomes us, helps create our characters. There is nothing more sensual, more delicious than the experience of preparing food for our loved ones. Cooking is the realization of life. Lets taste the flavor of each divine bite, understanding that what enlivens us affords us the blessing of our ability to taste, smell and be aware. Cooking makes us conscious of the gift we give whenever we nourish others or ourselves.

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