Nourished Magazine :: Wisdom to thrive by

Sometimes reading nutritional texts can be quite dry, and well not very nourishing. This is not the case with Nina Planck’s, Real Food: What to Eat and Why. Liberally seasoned with snippets of her life and fascinating food truths, her book is so more-ish you’ll find yourself tucking into it whenever you can.

A natural and generous storyteller, Nina has a gift for imparting knowledge while sharing a scrumptious tale or two. Her book follows her journey from well-nourished farm girl to finicky urban [tag]vegan[/tag] and back. And what a journey it was. She shares her experiences along with her emotional and physical responses to various phases in her life so well, I couldn’t help but empathise.

When she opened the first [tag]farmer’s markets[/tag] in London, after years of veganism, Nina found real food again and began to eat good old-fashioned farm fare like butter and cream, pastured meats and lard. Her body transformed. She lost weight and her health massively improved. How was this so? Could the nutritional experts be wrong? Everything about what she’s discovered screams yes.

Drawing on the latest research, Nina is able to lay to rest the paranoia we have inherited from our priggish forefathers and re-establish trust in the old food ways. She rigorously defends [tag]eggs[/tag], [tag]butter[/tag], [tag]lard[/tag], [tag]raw milk[/tag] and [tag]red meat[/tag] and clearly explains why our grandparents’ favourites are superior to any new fangled concoction. Reading this book will free you from the shackles of the modern nutritional hegemony and give you food freedom you have only dream of. It’s fully referenced; so invaluable for students, practitioners and those who love to argue.

“Real Food” is a robust appraisal of our current food system and offers many alternatives to plugging into the corporate machine. It will inspire you to make new decisions around nourishing your family and to whom your food dollars go. But even if you’re just in the mood for a good holiday read I can wholly recommend this book. With chapter headings like “My Virtuous Diet Makes Me Plump and Grumpy” Real Food entertains, inspires and nourishes the body and mind. Best if all, Nina says chocolate is good for us! Yay!

About the Author...

Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine, Chief Nourisher and Mother of three is very grateful to live in Byron Bay and be able to share all she has learned about Nourishment. She has trained as an Acupuncturist (unfinished), Kinesiologist (finished) and parent (never finished). She serves the Weston A Price Foundation as a chapter leader. She loves sauerkraut, kangaroo tail stew, home made ice cream, her husband Wes and her kids Isaiah, Brynn and Ronin (in no particular order…well maybe ice cream first).