MINNIE wrote:Patty, I just read the book. It was interesting, although I didn't learn anything I hadn't already known for his and Dr. McDougall's other books.
I would still recommend it for people who are new to this way of eating, and want to understand why the cheese habit is so hard to break - and why it's worth their while to do it.
I glanced at the faux cheese recipes, but they didn't interest me as something I would use. If I don't like real cheese, why do I want to make t fake cheese? Too much trouble for this lazy person
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I live in Wisconsin AKA dairyland, where cheese-making is revered and has almost cult status. I don't think Dr. Barnard's book will be a big seller around here, unfortunately.
But I will donate a few copies to libraries in the area and hope that someone will read them and at least begin to think about the issue differently.
I hear what you are saying:) And yikes... you must be so surrounded by cheese addicts. Someone posted a link to a podcast where Dr. Neal Barnard was promoting "The Cheese Trap." I think I already had downloaded it from Audible.com, but hadn't listen as yet. He shared about the pain of the separation of the calf and mother. I already had known from another one of his books, "Breaking the Food Seduction" about how mother's milk has opiates so the calf doesn't wander, which is the one I would gift. So immediately I got what the book was about. And actually what I heard in the podcast was worth the whole book. Dr. Neal Barnard used the expression of methadone cheese. In the interview I felt he was referring the commercial cheeses that you purchase in the health food store, that have a lot of oil. I purchase a lot of cookbooks as I like to look at the recipes. If my memory is correct Dr. Neal Barnard had listed the commercial cheeses, and all the recipes have a cashew base. So in essence for me, it was all the methadone cheeses. The hook is still there and that is why I would gift one of his other books.
I am too a lazy cook but actually making cheese with ground lentils is very easy:) It took watching Jeff Novick's two dvds on nuts, for me to understand there is fat in all plant foods. I am not a gourmet cook, more of a fast food junkie.
In my work as a caregiver I am reminded everyday there is no greater love then parent and child. Sometimes to get to that love it takes a lot of inside work as the greatest addiction is "me". I feel whoever you are talking too is the most important person (mother and child). And maybe that was the string that was pulled. I gift Dr. Neal Barnard's, "Power Foods for the Brain", a lot as in that book you catch his pain from Al and dementia. And I am grateful for it as "Dr. McDougall's Digestion Tune-Up", as how can anyone not identify.
A riddle that is shared a lot in AA, There are three frogs on a log. One jumps off. How many are left? Cheese has kicked my oklee. I am so grateful for the members who have posted cheese recipes, without or suggestions for nut/soy replacements. I have to smile, as I am 74 and I realize my tolerance is wearing:), and then I think of where you reside.. and yikes. I imagine Dr. Neal Barand's "The Cheese Trap", would be a great methadone hit. I have to become more educated about the IGF, to share about how our young sub teens are maturing too fast.
Mahalo, patty