Spice for Life™: Self-Healing Recipes, Remedies and Research
Dr. Ed Bauman & Shiela Moorthy with Preface by Donnie Yance, 2020
Spice for Life™: Self-Healing Recipes, Remedies and Research provides a unique blend of practical information on the culinary and medicinal use of ten healing spices — turmeric, basil, ashwagandha, ginger, cinnamon, garlic, peppers, saffron and salt. These top ten spices, especially when blended in combination with one another, build a flavor profile for scrumptious healing recipes and powerful home remedies. Spices are the secret ingredient to health, wellness, and longevity. They make ordinary food taste extraordinary. Spices switch on our metabolic engine. The 114 recipes and remedies in the Spice for Life™ will awaken your digestive fire, immune strength, and neuro-hormone balance. Spices have been cherished kitchen commodities since the beginning of time.
Readers will love the cross-pollination of nutrition, culinary arts, clinical research, botany, and culture that is offered in the Spice for Life™. The 165 dazzling food photographs alone make this book a kitchen table centerpiece. In this age of transformation, returning to the hearth to prepare savory, aromatic meals, and share with family, friends and neighbors is a healing balm. This reconnects us to our ancestry, and offers a way forward to create community and foster sustainability. The way forward is back to our old ways with new skills and inspiration that Spice for Life™ will provide.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
— Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC)
This is especially true when we include culinary herbs and spices. In Spice for Life™, the combination of wonderful recipes, with in-depth information on health benefits, and beautiful photography will entice and draw you in. Soon you will be in the kitchen creating one of these dishes or running to the store to pick up a spice you may have never ever used before. Spices not only enhance the flavor, aroma, and color of food and beverages, but they can also protect humans and animals from acute and chronic diseases. Turmeric, basil, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, oregano, rosemary, and sage are not only delicious seasonings. They also offer powerful health benefits. These common culinary herbs are used daily and liberally in virtually all traditional cultures, where they are valued for their ability to aid our health at the molecular, cellular and organ system level. They assist us in an array of way, now scientifically validated from epigenetic reprogramming to modulating inflammation, to activating a wide range of detoxification pathways, scavenging free radicals, protecting organ system and genomic integrity.
“Spice for Life: Self-Healing Recipes, Remedies and Research is not only beautiful in its design and text, but its organization far exceeds standard nutritional books. Dr. Bauman and Sheila Moorthy have placed each spice/herb in its own comprehensive section which includes lore, clinical studies, medicinal formulas, recipes, and propagation. This template is used for each herb which makes the book easy to reference and easily ‘digested’. The combination of science, traditional uses and colloquial material makes the book remarkably informative, comprehensive and fun.”
— Armand Brint, Founder, Berkeley Holistic Health Center, former Poet Laureate, Ukiah, California