Making sudden and drastic changes to your diet is a surefire recipe for failure. I often advise my patients to make simple changes, one at a time. Perhaps change your conventional bottled salad dressing to a health food store brand to eliminate hydrogenated oil and reduce salt, or use whole wheat spaghetti instead of white. For nearly ten years, the Food for Life Supreme Diner at 1846 Quindaro Boulevard in Kansas City, KS has served “transitional fare.” Now the diner has its own cookbook just in time for holiday gift giving, Food for Life: Transitional Recipes for Food Combining and Blood Typing by U.B. Right, a pseudonym for the contributors to the cookbook.
“If we had opened a vegetarian restaurant here, no one would have come,” says LaOta Rassoull Favors, one of the cookbooks contributors. “Fast food is the only food most around here have ever known. Children come here who never have been served before. Not only do they learn to eat healthy, they learn generosity and care.”
Food for Life Supreme is introducing their new cookbook at the Food for Life Supreme Women’s Health Day, Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at the Jack Reardon Civic Center, 500 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, KS, from 11 am to 2 pm. Admission is free. There will be book signings, free food tasting from the cookbook as well as live music and holistic health practitioners. I will be offering demonstrations of the Biomeridian Meridian Stress Assessment System, highlighted in the lcurrent issue of the Kansas City Wellness Magazine, as well as information on natural bioidentical hormone replacement. Receive a gift when you stop by my booth and tell me you heard about Women’s Health Day in this article.
The cookbook is organized by food, instead of categories such as entrees, with a fact sheet preface for each food. The recipes are simple and for the most part use readily available ingredients. Rice cheese and Braggs liquid aminos, may be new to some but are worth seeking out at health food stores. The cookbook makes eating by blood type straightforward. Each recipe is marked with a brightly colored icon noting the blood types benefited. The book concludes with lists of foods beneficial for each blood type. It treats food combining simply as well, cautioning against two combinations: proteins and starches, and fruits and vegetables. Many people experience improved digestion when these combinations are avoided. Of course, you can bypass all of this and just enjoy the recipes.
The cookbook is available at www.amazon.com, the Women’s Health Day and the Food for Life Supreme Diner. The diner is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 – 6:30 pm, with breakfast until noon. A heart marks menu marks items that can be made vegetarian or properly combined. The diner delivers just about anywhere in the city between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm, and offers catering. Call 913.281.9771.
Enjoy this transitional recipe, “nautical bacon,” as Ms. Favors called it. It tastes amazingly like bacon, without the nitrites.
Salmon Bacon Recipe
1 pound thinly-sliced salmon filet (lateral or vertical slice)
4 TBSP liquid aminos
5 TBSP Liquid Smoke
Combine liquid amino and Liquid Smoke to make a marinade. Marinate salmon at least one hour on each side. For best results marinate overnight. Broil on a cookie sheet until crispy. Good for all blood types.
A similar version of this article appeared in the November 2006 issue of the Kansas City Wellness Magazine.
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