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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. 
~Marcel Proust

Stiff-neckedness is both the symptom and the cause of many ills.
-Chef Jay

Resources

Books:
Cooking:
"The Improvisational Cook" Sally Schneider
"The Flavor Bible" Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg
"How to cook Everything" Mark Bittman

Therapeutic foods:
"Dietary Wellness" Phyllis A. Balch
"The Encyclopedia of Healing foods" Micheal Murry
Spiritual health:
"Bible" El Shaddai
"A more Excellent Way" Henry W. Wright

Therapeutic Chef Resources

 East Bay Chefs Co-op
A network of Personal, private, public chefs and nutritionist in the East bay of San Francisco. This site is a resource and place to connect and share with other likeminded professionals

Bauman College
A school for the certification of Holistic Chefs and Nutritional professionals.

 Biblical Health Resources:

Web Sites:
"Be In Health Ministry"
We are an International ministry teaching the biblical principles that bring healing of relationships and health. We offer teaching to unravel the mysteries of disease and reveal pathways to health and wholeness based on scriptural insight and understanding. Dedicated to helping people, we offer insights to why mankind has disease, spiritual roots of disease and blocks to healing.

Biblical Health Institute
An educational resource for biblical health principals and coaching.

Articles:
M.D. (Medical Dieity)?
Biblical health summary...prevention.

Cooking Resources:

Recipe sites:
Epicurious
Cooks.com

Recommeded products

Blender:
Vitamix "Vita Prep 3" (model 1005)
Avg price $490
Vitamix has been the trusted industry leader in quality long lasting, high powered blenders for over 70 years. The Vita-Prep 3 is a workhorse in the commercial kitchen, puréeing quicker and smoother than any blender or food processor you have ever used without over heating. Vita-Prep Variable speed control allows you to chop, grind or blend. The tamper tool sets this apart from any other blender, which allows you to force foods down into the blades to keep the vortex working and evenly blend your items. The Vita-Mix Vita-Prep 3 has become the chefs tool of choice. With 3hp. the Vita-Mix Vita-Prep 3 can handle any day to day workload required and last for years to come.

Cutting Boards:
Epicurean Cutting surfaces:
Best all around cutting surfaces, they are made of Forest Stewardship Council certifed paper and a non-toxic food grade resin. This makes for a long lasting and versitile cutting surface. I like them because they are thin, sturdy, won't dull your sharp knifes, and don't harbor bacteria like other materials like bamboo and softer woods.

Superfood/supplements:
Excula Iridesca
hands down the most concentrated and most bioavailable food source of nutrition in one product!

 

Therapeutic Treatment centers: for "terminal" diseases

Hippocrates Health Institute
 

Brian and Anna Maria Clement, Ph.D., L.N.C. have continued the work of Ann Wigmore and guided the Institute into an era that has begun to see international recognition of the benefits of wheatgrass and also the advent of natural approaches to healthcare. Modern research has illuminated direct links between certain foods and health risks, and authorities universally confirm the severe decline of health in Western civilization. Hippocrates remains on the cutting edge of educating people about disease prevention and the effects of positive diet and lifestyle choices.

The Gerson Institute
The Gerson Institute is a non-profit organization located in San Diego, California, dedicated to the alternative, non-toxic treatment of disease, using the Gerson Therapy.

The Gerson Therapy is a safe, natural treatment developed by Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920’s that uses organic foods, juicing, coffee enemas, detoxification and natural supplements to activate the body’s ability to heal itself.  Over the past 60 years, thousands of people have used the Gerson Therapy to recover from so-called “incurable” diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.


 

Traditional and Local food

Three Stone Hearth
A worker-owned cooperative, offering
nutrient dense foods to homes and families around the San Francisco Bay Area

Dom's Insite
A website dedicated to sharing all you wanted to know about various ferments and Kefir cultures. Scroll to the bottom for his other pages

Slowfood USA
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.