New Seaweed Cookbook or A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

New Seaweed Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Discovering the Deep Flavors of the Sea

Author: Crystal June Maderia

Recent trends suggest a wide range of consumer concerns in food choice and consumption. Increasingly, buyers prefer organic and locally produced ingredients; good taste; high nutritional and medicinal value; and low-allergen factors. The humble seaweed, nature’s richest source of iodine and loaded with minerals, addresses all these concerns.

In this combination cookbook and food guide, Crystal June Madeira explains the properties of each variety of seaweed—kombu, nori, arame, wakame, and dulse–and provides simple instructions for its preparation in delicious recipes such as Lime Cumin Aioli, Sautéed Wakame and Green Beans, Summer Chicken Soup with Sea Palm, and Baked Figs with Honey Lemon Thyme Sorbet. Seaweed’s healing properties in detoxifying the body, alleviating cramps, and lowering blood pressure, have been well documented. That factor, along with the absence of gluten and other allergy triggers, make these recipes ideal for anyone seeking improved health, as well as those who enjoy sea vegetables in Japanese cuisine and want to learn how they can eat them more often. Maderia includes current information on how to purchase local foods, and a directory of seaweed harvesters worldwide.

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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

Author: David A Bender

This dictionary is ideal for anyone who enjoys food and would like a handy, non-technical guide to the terms they encounter on food labels, in advertising, or in the media. All entries are fully revised for this brand new second edition. Food dishes from around the world are included, from accoub and fair maids to mushy peas and zakusa. With 6,000 entries on all aspects of food,nutrition, diet and health, the dictionary is invaluable to consumers, cooks, and a range of students and practitioners of catering, home economics, food technology, and health care. Ten appendices list food additives, vitamins, and nutrients, and clear guidance is also included on which foods are good sources of major nutrients.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
	Dictionary	1
	Appendices
I	Units of measurement	571
II	Estimated average requirements for energy	572
III	The vitamins	573
IV	US/Canadian Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and Acceptable Intakes (AI), 1997-2001	574
V	EU Population Reference Intakes (PRI) of nutrients, 1993	575
VI	UK Reference Nutrient Intakes (RNI), 1991	576
VII	Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNI) for vitamins, FAO 2001	577
VIII	Food additives permitted in the EU	578