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This fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling cookbook, including 45 new recipes, shows parents how to make nutritious meals for the whole family, including babies and young children. For over 15 years Cynthia Lair's classic cookbook has been the source for parents who want to cook one healthy meal for the entire family, including babies. With more than 200 recipes this revised fourth edition teaches the basics of understanding a balanced whole-foods diet, from grains and beans to meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables. Lair includes information on breastfeeding, beginning babies on solid foods, food allergies and intolerances, raising healthy eaters, and the importance of sharing nourishing meals as a family. In each recipe Lair offers instructions on how to adapt meals so that babies who are just starting solids, as well as older babies, can enjoy the dish, while children and adults eat a more complex version to satisfy their palates. All recipes use easy-to-find ingredients, are simple to follow, and will be enjoyable for the whole family.
About the Author
Cynthia Lair has been a Professor for Bastyr University's School of Nutrition and Exercise Science since 1994. She founded their B.S. in Nutrition and Culinary Arts program. Find her on video in the on-line cooking show Cookus Interruptus: how to cook fresh, local, seasonal whole foods despite life's interruptions.
Watch her TEDx Rainier talk "How to Cut an Onion" on YouTube.
Ms. Lair has been an invited speaker at the Food as Medicine Conference, La Leche League conventions and the 2015 and 2017 Nutrition & Health Conference (Arizona) . She has taught whole foods cooking classes at the Puget Consumer's Coop, Sur La Table, Evergreen Hospital, Pike Place Market and many other venues. Latest schedule: www.cynthialair.com.
A new, fully-revised fourth edition of her popular cookbook, Feeding the Whole Family (which has sold over 80,000 copies) comes out November 2016. Her second book, Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players and Parents was released in 2012.
