Gayle Pruitt - Dog-Gone Good Cuisine: More Healthy, Fast, and Easy Recipes for You and Your Pooch

ALSO BY GAYLE PRUITT AND JOE GRISHAMThe Dog-Gone Good Cookbook Photographs by Joe Grisham The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the authors copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. DOG-GONE GOOD CUISINE. Copyright 2014 by Gayle Pruitt. Foreword copyright 2014 by Fred Pescafore.

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to my two faithful companions,
Mimi and Mister Casper.

From Gayle Pruitt: First of all, I would like to thank Chancey Blackburn for her tireless effort in helping me with every aspect of this book. I will be forever grateful to my amazing agent, Linda Langton, who believed in this project from the very beginning. My sincere appreciation goes to Daniela Rapp, editor for St. Martins Press, who took my words and recipes and made them into a cookbook.

I also want to thank photographer Joe Grisham, his artist wife, Janet Healey, and set director, Keith Johnston. Each of their gorgeous photographs of food and dogs are works of art. I would like to acknowledge two important people in my life, Rick and Lavonne Bradford, owners of the Sunflowers Shoppe in Fort Worth, Texas. Rick and Lavonne believed in my philosophy on food and opened the door to a world of nutrition for me. Without them this book would never have been written. From Joe Grisham: To my wife and creative partner, Janet Healey, THANK YOU for always making work together so exciting.

Your incredible ideas and brilliant vision never cease to amaze me! Big thanks to Keith Johnston for your wonderful production design and styling. Also, thank you Katy Yost and Veronica Ramos for your help in the kitchen and keeping us on track every day. Special appreciation to Art Ortiz of DogFit Dallas for your innovative dog wrangling. On set and off, all the dogs love you. Susan Hubenthal, thank you for your witty chalkboard art and signage. You're a fabulous artist.

Finally, thank you to the extraordinary rescue dogs who showed up at our studio and gave us their all...just for some love and a few delicious treats. You're what keeps us going!

It gives me great pleasure to be writing the foreword to Dog-Gone Good Cuisine. I cant remember a time in my life when I didnt have a dog as a companion. Some of my earliest memories revolve around my first dog, Penny, and ever since I have been the proud companion of a dogeven in medical school and residency when there wasnt an ounce of time to spare, I always made room for my dog/child. Today, I work in private practice and am fortunate enough to be able to bring Remington, my beagle, to the office with me. He is a great source of joy for the patients (and the staff, too). He is the cutest and best dog on the planet (yes, I know, so is yours) and he brings an immediate smile to my patients faces.

Somehow what is bothering them becomes a little easier to bear. The simple act of a dog looking into your eyes can warm your soul and, scientifically, can help to boost your immune system. As you can tell, I feel that dogs are a wonderful species and do so much for us that it is our important responsibility to manage their health. This brings me to the second reason why I am honored to be a part of this book. I am a medical doctor who specializes in nutritional medicine. I am very proactive with my human patients and do not wait for them to get sick, but encourage them to do something that positively affects their lives each day.

This belief translates directly to the care of dogs. For the most part, pet food is filled with things I wouldnt feed my worst enemy, let alone the one being that I love the most in the world. Gayle has really taken the lead in bringing to light the similarities in the way we can eat together with our dogs. She has created healthy delicious recipes that will impact your dogs health in a positive way and that are easy to prepare. I especially enjoy how varied and easy the recipes aremany of which I would never have thought of. There are more than 100 recipes in this book, many of which will address human and canine lifestyle illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, kidney issues, and liver disease and with special sections on fats, oils, herbs, and spices.

You can see Gayle has love both for dogs and their owners as well as a commitment to cooking with healthful ingredients. Her passion is deep and her skill amazing. Just as humans are plagued with obesity and degenerative illnesses such as arthritis, so are our canine friends. This is wrong and the only way to address the problem is to go to the root cause, which is what we feed our dogs. It disheartens me when I bring Remington to the vet and see all of the obese dogs or the ones with arthritis and the medications they are on. I just want to scream and tell the owners it doesnt have to be this wayyou are killing your pet! Instead, I sit there and recommend Gayles book.

A remarkable transformation has taken place in the human world in the past decade, where we are paying much more attention to the quality of the food we place in our mouths and acknowledge foods importance to our health and well-being. I am so pleased to see this transformation now extending to our pets. Remington only gets raw vegetables for a treat and he loves them. His digestion is amazing, he never has diarrhea and his coat is extremely soft. This and more can all be achieved through good nutrition. Your dog doesnt have to be sick, and if he is, this book will quite possibly save his life.

FRED PESCATORE, MD,
MPH, CCN

Mom and Dad bought me an Easy-Bake oven when I was five years old. I was hooked and Ive loved to cook ever since. They also always had a large garden; the vegetables were so fresh, so good, and so very healthy! Okra, black-eyed peas, green beans, and luscious red ripe tomatoes were picked right out of the garden to use for dinner. Mom would walk down to the creek and pick watercress to throw in salads. My grandmother also had an herb garden, so mint and basil were always on the table. Many years later when I was working at a health food store, the store owners asked me if I would like to get my certification in nutrition.