Welcoming Food, Book 1: Energetics of Food and Healing: Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers

by Andrew Sterman

Overview

The two books of Welcoming Food offer a step-by-step tour of digestion and the way to use foods to maintain or return to optimal health. Thoughtfully drawing on the best modern research and the exquisitely detailed dietary teachings of classical Chinese medicine, Welcoming Food explains how foods work in common sense language and provides easy-to-follow recipes for appetizers, soups, grains, vegetables, fish, meats, breakfasts, desserts, sauces and condiments. Welcoming Food is for everyone, a comprehensive guide to putting food wisdom into delicious daily practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983772095
Publisher:	Ann Cecil-Sterman, PLLC
Publication date:	01/22/2020
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	509,181
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Andrew Sterman's dietary work integrates Chinese medicine with modern cooking. He teaches cooking for health in classes and private sessions throughout North America, Europe and Australia, and his articles and online Food Chats have introduced classical food energetics to a widening circle of health professionals and food lovers. As a musician and composer heard on film scores, recordings, live theater and concert stages around the world, Andrew has had unique opportunities to learn from chefs and family cooks of many cultures. This integration of traditional food wisdom collected from decades of traveling along with three decades of careful study of Chinese medicine informs his special way of incorporating food and healing into daily cooking routines. Andrew lives in Manhattan with his wife, acupuncturist and author Ann Cecil-Sterman, and their two children.

Table of Contents

Welcoming Food, Book 1, Table of Contents

1. Invitation

2. A Fresh Look at Food

3. Opening the Door to Food and Healing

4. The General Guidelines

5. Whetting the Appetite

6. Soothing the Stomach and Pancreas-Spleen

7. Supporting the Liver and Gallbladder

8. Care and Feeding of the Small Intestine

9. Digesting with Ease: Clear Meals

10. Healing the Small Intestine: Foods to Relieve Inflammation, Cold, and Leaky Gut Syndrome

11. Helping the Small Intestine Through Serious Illness: SIBO, Chronic Lyme, and the Mysterious Condition Known as Gu Syndrome

12. Tending the Pilot Light Within: The Role of the Kidneys

13. Inhaling the Breath of Heaven: The Role of the Lungs in Digestion

14. Exploring the Mysterious Ileum

15. Nurturing the Large Intestine

16. Nursing the Lower Gut: Resolution of Serious Problems and Guidance for Everyone

17. The Cook as Healer

Sources and Further Reading

Index

Editorial Reviews

Andrew Sterman has a passion for putting traditional Chinese medicine principles into practice. In Welcoming Food, he has lovingly written a comprehensive book filled with valuable information that honors the long tradition put forth by sages of promoting heath and healing disease through food first.

Stephen Cowan MD, author of Fire Child Water Child

As a veteran practitioner of Chinese medicine, I have waited a very long time for a book such as this one. Welcoming Food is one of the only texts that targets both health professionals, patients, cooks and the general public on dietetics according to the principles of Chinese medicine. The explanations are clear and simple, the recipes creative and dynamic. I highly recommend this text to anyone who wants to improve their health and that of their patients and families, and plan to make it a staple in my office waiting room!

Z’ev Rosenberg, L. Ac., author of Returning to the Source and Ripples in the Flow

I love these books! It’s like Andrew is at my home kitchen table explaining potentially complicated things about food, making everything simple. It’s fascinating. This work will be very helpful for a lot of people.

Philip Glass, composer

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