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Fast Food My Way
by Jacques PépinEasy, everyday dishes with a French twist from the multiple James Beard Award-winning chef, &“a great teacher and truly a master technician&” (Julia Child). In this companion volume to the PBS series, Jacques Pépin shows you how to create great-tasting dishes ranging from stunning salads such as Tomato and Mozzarella Fans to Supreme of Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar and Shallot Sauce to his breathtaking Almond Cake with Berries, all special enough for company, yet easy enough for those weekday evenings when you have no time. Fast food Jacques&’s way involves no compromises in taste but saves you hours in the kitchen. His Instant Beef Tenderloin Stew, for instance, not only is far faster to make than traditional versions, but tastes brighter and fresher. With concise, clear directions, Jacques shares the secrets of his kitchen. He teaches you how to season a salmon fillet perfectly and cook it in a low oven, right on the serving platter. You&’ll learn how to make a satisfying homemade vegetable soup in seconds, a baked potato in half the usual time, and a succulent roast that takes minutes, not hours, to prepare. He also shows you how to create elegant meals from convenience foods: a bean dip that will keep guests coming back for more, silky soups, and caramelized peaches made from canned peaches. With Jacques Pépin Fast Food My Way at your side, the best food is always the simplest. &“French cooking, Pépin reminds us, is not just a matter of technique; it&’s a matter of chic.&”—Publishers Weekly
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric SchlosserUsing first-rate reporting, wry wit and careful reasoning, Schlosser shows how fast food has harmed the American culture.
Fast Food for the Soul
by Barbara BergerThe Road to Power... Fast Food for the Soul We are what we think. We can change our lives by changing our thoughts. Our thoughts and words are all-powerful. Through our thoughts and words, we create our lives. In this simple yet important book, Barbara Berger shows you how to harness the power of the mind to create the life you want. She reminds us of what is available to us - from the power of release and saying no to focusing, blessing, and giving. And she offers fast, effective techniques for solving health problems, financial difficulties, and other life challenges. Give your soul a boost and your heart a pick-me-up - when you change your thinking, you will ultimately change your life. Decide on the life you want, visualize it, affirm it, decree it, focus on it, believe it, have faith in it, and you will find yourself living this life much sooner and faster than you ever dreamed possible.
Fast Food, Good Food: More Than 150 Quick and Easy Ways to Put Healthy, Delicious Food on the Table
by Andrew WeilDelicious, nutritious, quick, and easy recipes from bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil's own kitchen.These days, fewer people than ever are cooking meals at home. Convincing ourselves that we don't have time to cook, we've forgotten how fast, simple, and wonderfully satisfying it can be to prepare delicious meals in our own kitchens for the people we love. In FAST FOOD, GOOD FOOD, bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil reminds us, with more than 150 easy-to-prepare recipes for delectable dishes that are irresistibly tasty and good for you. These recipes showcase fresh, high-quality ingredients and hearty flavors, like Buffalo Mozzarella Bruschetta, Five-Spice Winter Squash Soup, Greek Style Kale Salad, Pappardelle with Arugula Walnut Pesto, Pan-Seared Halibut with Green Harissa, Coconut Lemon Bars, and Pomegranate Margaritas. With guidance on following an anti-inflammatory diet and mouth-wateringly gorgeous photographs, FAST FOOD, GOOD FOOD will inspire the inner nutritionist and chef in every reader.
Fast Fuel: Delicious Recipes and Nutrition Plans to Achieve Your Goals
by Renee McgregorSwim, bike, run, and repeat. Simple, right? Wrong. What you eat while you train is just as important as how you're training. If you're going to perform at your best on race day, top sports nutritionist Renee McGregor has the dietary plans to hit your goals as a triathlete. What to eat, when and why are clearly explained in a way that is relatable to everyone and backed up by years of experience and expertise. Meal plans and the science are tailored to the multi-disciplinary training of a triathlete. How to fuel yourself for success by eating right before, during and after training is clearly laid out, along with how to shift your plan to match the intensity of your training days and the build up to race day. Importantly, this nutrition advice is designed for real people with real lives.
Fast Fuel: Delicious Recipes and Nutrition Plans to Achieve Your Goals
by Renee McgregorNo matter if you're running a 5k or a marathon, getting your training diet right is essential to maximise your performance. Renee McGregor, one of the UK's top sports nutritionists, explains the dietary plans needed to hit your goals as a runner. The science of what to eat, and why, is clearly and practically laid out for whatever kind of running you do. Meal plans are tailored to your running goals and cover what to eat on rest, easy, moderate and high-intensity training days. This includes how to get to grips with eating before, during and after running in the most efficient way for your body to fuel and restore itself, as well as marathon race meal plans and the top race day foods. Importantly, all of these meals and snacks are made for real people with real lives.
Fast Fun & Easy Needle Felting: 8 Techniques & Projects—Creative Results in Minutes! (Fast, Fun And Easy Ser.)
by Lynne FarrisCreative Wool Accents are the Latest Way to Play! A beginner's guide to crafting's new craze - needle felting. Learn in minutes! Everything you need to know about tools, materials, and techniques. Embellish woolen wearables and accessories, or create your own felted fabric projects. Create necklaces, bracelets, hat accessories, even soft buttons and beads. Today's hottest trend is easy, addictive, and portable. Try all kinds of materials, including felt, wool yarn, roving, and other natural fibers. A project for every technique including easy stencils and a stained-glass effect.
Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones
by Dr. Mindy PelzINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER!Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one!A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women's needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting.Are you among the many women who feel unheard and unseen by their doctors and health professionals? Have you become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave you disappointed? Well in Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you to take back control of your health by using the quickest path back to better health—fasting.While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles.Dr. Mindy will teach you:the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours)how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don&’t have a cycle, she has you covered)the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic healthThis book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans—ketobiotic and hormone feasting—she created to best support women&’s hormones. And, it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding.Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, &“once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable.&”
Fast Metabolism Food Rx: 7 Powerful Prescriptions to Feed Your Body Back to Health
by Haylie PomroyWANT TO FEEL GREAT, DISEASE-PROOF YOUR BODY, AND LIVE AT YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT? THEN, EAT YOUR MEDICINE Haylie Pomroy, celebrated nutritionist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet, shares a food prescription for the 7 most common ways your metabolism misfires and leads to exhaustion, excess weight, and illness. With her targeted eating plans you can feed your body back to a vibrant, energetic, and thriving state. When multiple health challenges threatened the author's life, it set her on an investigative journey that was life-changing--and lifesaving. In this book, she shares her personal story for the first time, as well as the powerful food programs she created based on the methods and philosophies that saved her life and helped her thrive. For decades now, these same food therapies have provided profound clinical results in her clinics where she's treated thousands of others.Our bodies are always talking, communicating their needs. We just need to learn how to listen. Sometimes they whisper to us--our energy is off, we just don't feel right, we have indigestion or IBS, or our body shape is morphing in ways we don't recognize or like. Sometimes our bodies speak up and change our biochemistry in order to get our attention, by pushing our cholesterol a little higher, making us irritable, reactive, or 'foggy.' At other times our bodies are screaming for help, we have become pre- or full-blown diabetic and our immune systems are confused and attacking us. Every one of these health signals hides a specific problem, and for which food, not drugs, is the answer. So, if you're suffering from GI issues, fatigue, out of whack hormones, mood and cognition difficulties, elevated cholesterol, blood sugar control problems, or an autoimmune problem, Food Rx has the solution for you.From the Hardcover edition.
Fast Metabolism Weight Loss Diet Plan: Reset Health and Achieve Lasting Weight Loss
by Megan Johnson McCulloughBoost your metabolism and jump-start weight loss in five weeksThe path to weight loss can be frustrating—and an imbalanced metabolism can slow down progress. Pave a smooth road to weight loss with this fast metabolism diet plan. The five-week meal plan is designed to reboot and maintain a healthy metabolism, and includes plenty of recipes and guidance for maintaining the lifestyle.Key steps to success—Learn the essential elements of a metabolism reset, including an anti-inflammatory diet, intermittent fasting, and physical fitness.Straightforward plan—Get started with a four-week metabolism reset plan and a one-week plan to kick off ongoing maintenance, plus shopping lists and prep tips.Wholesome meals—Stick to the plan as you enjoy metabolism-boosting recipes at every meal, many of them grain-free, sugar-free, and vegan.Discover how to lose weight and boost overall wellness with this plan for following a healthy fast metabolism diet.
Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof #6)
by Dave AspreyBreak the rules, not the fast with world-renowned biohacker and New York Times bestselling author Dave Asprey.For more than a decade, Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey has shared his unique point of view and expertise to help fans become the best versions of themselves. From living longer to getting smarter, maximizing performance to practicing mindfulness, Dave’s followers look to him for his take on the most effective techniques to become healthier and more powerful than most doctors think is possible.Asprey has been fasting for years, long before it gained widespread popularity, and if you’re a fan of Bulletproof coffee and The Bulletproof Diet, you have been enjoying some of the benefits of Intermittent Fasting too.In Fast This Way, Dave asks readers to forget everything they think they know about the ancient practice and takes them on a journey through cutting-edge science to examine the ways novice fasters and Intermittent Fasting loyalists can up-end their relationship with food and upgrade their fasting game beyond calorie restriction. What IF eating the right foods at the right time can actually enhance your fast? What IF how you work out and sleep could trick your body into thinking you are fasting? What IF it were easy to skip a meal, or two, or three? What IF fasting is different for women, can be personalized to your genes, and can impact your mental health? What IF all fasts could be created equal?Fast This Way is a compelling read through the latest thinking on fasting and gives readers the manual and toolkit to make the most of their fasts and their personal biology.
Fast Yourself Fit: Using Fasting and Low-Carb Eating to Lose Weight and Feel Great
by Emma Van CarlenFast Yourself Fit will teach you how to lose weight quickly, healthily, and effectively, and most importantly how to eat mindfully when breaking your fast for sustained success!Features over 25 Low Carb Recipes!Weight loss is one of the hardest things to do in life, and the vast amount of conflicting information out there can bring us to a standstill. Many of us have tried to lose weight for years and ended up failing time after time. That&’s because most diets overlook the pivotal role hormones play in the weight loss equation. Fasting and accountability coach Emma Van Carlen understands the struggles of yo-yo dieting and finding the right plan for reducing weight and keeping it off. With support from scientific research and her own success, this book outlines the hormonal foundations for weight loss and explains how using methods such as intermittent fasting combined with mindful eating can heal the hormonal issues, specifically insulin resistance and leptin resistance, that lead people to struggle with their weight in the first place. In Fast Yourself Fit, Emma tells you everything you need to know about fasting to help you select the right style and get started. In this book, you&’ll learn · Why conventional diets fail· The history of fasting and why it&’s a healthy approach· The hormonal foundations of weight gain and insulin resistance and how to use fasting to rebalance hormones· How to lose weight through fasting—without hitting the gym· What to eat when breaking your fast· How to change your diet to lose weight effortlessly· How to keep weight off in the long run by listening to your body and practicing mindful eating· How to prepare Emma&’s go-to keto recipes Emma acts as your guide throughout the book, offering her personal perspective. By employing the methods outlined in this book, she was able to heal her hormonal issues and lose 40 pounds in the process. She also shares inspirational stories from clients who have used her methods to great success. Give up on traditional &“calories in, calories out plans&” that don&’t work and Fast Yourself Fit instead!
Fast and Easy Five-Ingredient Recipes: A Cookbook for Busy People
by Philia KelnhoferWhen you're short on time, you'll love these big-on-flavor, crazy easy meals. Cooking can sometimes involve mile-long ingredient lists and require more time than one cares to spend in the kitchen after a busy day. With Fast and Easy Five Ingredient Recipes you'll find over 100 recipes that only require five ingredients (or less) and use simple ingredients in unique ways. Recipes include: Southern Style Chicken Sliders Spinach Alfredo Lasagna Pulled Pork Carnita Tacos Homemade Pizza Pockets Peanut Butter Sea Salt Cookies Whether for weeknight meals or last minute dinner parties, these five-ingredient recipes will save you time and money...and they're delicious too!
Fast and Easy Ways to Cook Vegetables: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-105 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin Ser.)
by Penny NoepelSince 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. <P><P>There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Fast and Flavorful
by Linda GassenheimerPeople with diabetes know that cooking at home means healthier meals, but they also assume it means more planning, cleaning, and work. Best-selling author Linda Gassenheimer proves just the opposite - preparing delicious, diabetes-friendly meals is easier than most people imagine. Just let the supermarket do the work! By using convenience foods and fresh products from the supermarket bakery and butcher, Fast and Flavorful shows readers how to make great meals they won't believe are diabetes-friendly and save time and effort in the process. Best of all, each recipe is presented as part of a complete meal, designed specifically for two people. Each meal comes with instructions for preparing recipes simultaneously, a complete shopping list, and cooking tips, time-saving techniques, and meal planning advice straight from Linda's "Dinner in Minutes" newspaper column. It turns out that cooking fantastic, nutritious meals is easier than anyone thought possible.
Fast and Tasty recipes
by Arianna Raimondi Nonna CarlaWho does not like occasionally to eat tasty recipes? And who eat sometimes out, but is tired of the same sandwiches? You love Pizza but want to give her that particular taste? You have some hosts and do not know what to offer to them? Or you simply need some fast recipes because you don’t have time to cook? You have a bar and you want to offer your customers something that no one has ever offered? Well, this book makes to your case. With a long selection of sandwiches, pizzas, bruschetta, you don’t have to worry. Every recipe has been tasted, and the ingredients have been chosen according to the their taste to find the right match between the various dishes. Moreover, ingredients have been chosen for their proprieties to guarantee the taste and health. The recipes have been chosen to limit preparation’s times and where possible the price. In short, the recipes suitable for who want the taste and the convenience, but not doesn’t want to go to a restaurant.
Fast food saludable: Disfruta de la comida sin remordimientos
by Chef BosquetCome sin remordimientos con las 70 recetas sanas y exprés del chef Bosquet, el mejor foodie 2018 de nuestro país. Cuando pensamos en fast food suelen venirnos a la cabeza los famosos productos ultraprocesados y de baja calidad nutricional. Pero las recetas e ingredientes de Roberto Bosquet demuestran que preparar platos sabrosos en poco tiempo sin rendirse al azúcar ni a las harinas refinadas es posible. En Fastfood saludable encontrarás: - Consejos para hacer tu compra y elegir los mejores productos locales y de proximidad. - Estrategias de la cocina de aprovechamiento con las que ahorrarás dinero, ensuciarás menos y evitarás tirar comida. - Claves para dejar de hacer dieta y aprender a comer sano. - 70 recetas fáciles y healthy para desayunos, comidas, cenas y postres apetitosos, que te inspirarán y te ayudarán a cambiar tu rutina alimentaria para siempre.
Fast to the Table Freezer Cookbook: Freezer-Friendly Recipes and Frozen Food Shortcuts
by Becky RosenthalA stocked freezer is a busy cook's best friend--frozen ingredients are the key to a quick and delicious meal. Make your freezer work for you. If you buy groceries in bulk, discover how to break down your purchases into usable, smaller servings that you can freeze and incorporate into dishes for later. If you love to get your fruits, vegetables, meat, and more from a farmers' market, but have a hard time eating everything before it spoils, learn how to freeze your produce yourself or prepare meals to freeze. And if you need more of a shortcut,buy frozen ingredients to use for recipes like these: Beef Pot Pie with Peas, Carrots, and Pearl Onions (from the freezer: piecrust, beef, vegetables) Corn Cakes with Pulled Pork and Cherry Salsa (from the freezer: pulled pork, cherries, make-ahead corn pancakes) Fisherman's Stew (from the freezer: fish fillets, shrimp, scallops, vegetables, fish stock) Peach-Blueberry Cobbler (from the freezer: fruit, either bought or prepared from fresh) This is freezer-to-table cooking at its best.
Fast, Fresh, & Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers
by Susie Middleton“[A] rainbow of appealing recipes . . . likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom Fine Cooking’s Vegetable Queen, this book is ideal for vegetarians—or anyone who wants to get the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and greens into their daily diet. Susie Middleton shares her love of healthful, delicious veggies with a guide to shopping for and cooking delectable meatless meals, including such delights as Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano and Roasted Eggplant, Bell Pepper, and Fresh Basil Salad. More than 100 recipes for appetizers, snacks, entrees, and side dishes, many of them vegan, make Fast, Fresh & Green an excellent resource for plant-based and plant-forward eating.
Fast-Fix Meals Cookbook
by Gooseberry Patch220 homestyle recipes that go from stove to table in 30 minutes or less. Time-saving tips for serving up budget-friendly & flavorful meals. Chapters include Sizzling Skillets, Simmering Soup Pots, Dinner on a Bun, Desserts in a Jiffy & more.
Fast. Feast. Repeat.: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting--Including the 28-Day FAST Start
by Gin StephensThe instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Change when you eat and change your body, your health, and your life!Diets don’t work. You know you know that, and yet you continue to try them, because what else can you do? You can Fast. Feast. Repeat. After losing over eighty pounds and keeping every one of them off, Gin Stephens started a vibrant, successful online community with hundreds of thousands of members from around the world who have learned the magic of a Delay, Don’t Deny® intermittent fasting lifestyle. Fast. Feast. Repeat. has it all! You’ll learn how to work a variety of intermittent fasting approaches into your life, no matter what your circumstances or schedule. Once you’ve ignited your fat-burning superpower, you’ll get rid of “diet brain” forever, tweak your protocol until it’s second nature, and learn why IF is a lifestyle, not a diet. Fast. Feast. Repeat. is for everyone! Beginners will utilize the 28-Day FAST Start. Experienced intermittent fasters will strengthen their intermittent fasting practice, work on their mindset, and read about the latest research out of top universities supporting intermittent fasting as the health plan with a side effect of weight loss. Still have questions? Gin has you covered! All of the most frequently asked intermittent fasting questions are answered in the exhaustive FAQ section.
FastExercise: The Simple Secret of High-Intensity Training
by Dr Dr Michael MosleyFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet and The FastDiet comes a new revolution in fitness. Lose weight and dramatically improve your health with high intensity training—just ten minutes a day, three times a week.Hailed as “a health revolution” by the New York Times, Michael Mosley’s FastDiet—also known as the 5:2 diet—gave the world a healthy new way to lose weight through intermittent fasting. Now, Dr. Mosley addresses the essential complement to the FastDiet—FastExercise—teaming up with leading sports scientist Professor Jamie Timmons and super-fit health journalist Peta Bee to turn conventional wisdom on its head when it comes to working out. Responding to the latest research on high-intensity training (HIT), FastExercise dispenses with the practice of boring, time-consuming regimens, demonstrating that all it takes is half an hour a week to lower blood glucose levels, reduce your risk for disease, help you lose weight, and maximize your overall health. Throughout the book, the authors offer a range of workouts that take just ten minutes a day, three times a week, and can be done anytime, anywhere. Whether it’s pedaling at high resistance while waiting for your kettle to boil or holding a plank during commercials, research has shown the extraordinary impact that ultra-short bursts of HIT can have, whatever your age or level of fitness. In addition, Michael Mosley and Peta Bee break down the science behind this radically different approach to exercise and give you the tools to take advantage of the most flexible and efficient method out there. It’s a practical, enjoyable way to get maximal benefits in minimal time, short and fast, something that can become a sustainable part of your routine, as instinctive as brushing your teeth.
Faster Better Stronger: Two Doctors Who Train World-Class Athletes Reveal the Tricks of the Trade for the Rest of Us
by Massimo Testa Eric Heiden Deanne Musolf“Two of the most-respected and best-liked people in bicycle racing have collaborated on this easy-to-follow, sensible guide to a healthier life.” —Samuel Abt, author of Up the RoadAre you weary of cookie-cutter fitness plans devoid of anything you can actually use? Or programs promising great abs by Monday?Eric Heiden, MD, and Massimo Testa, MD, are renowned physicians who’ve spent their lives facing every conceivable exercise problem, helping both elite athletes and people who want to finish a 5K or achieve lower blood pressure.Part I of this book is a treasure trove filled with everything everyone should know about fitness but that even the best athletes do not, including how to start (or restart) an exercise regimen; eat before, during, and after a workout; lose weight while getting fit; treat aches and pains; diagnose fatigue; harness your thoughts; and select the activities best suited to you. Part II unveils a twelve-week fitness program, tailored to your needs, which will optimize your time, efforts, and results.Faster, Better, Stronger, named one of the top ten books of the year by Disaboom.com, is highly inspiring and fun to read, with stories from Dr. Heiden at the Olympics and from Dr. Testa about helping the world’s top cyclists as well as elderly and obese patients.Doctors rarely make guarantees, but Dr. Heiden and Dr. Testa are willing to guarantee this: Everyone can get better. Including you.“I have always been amazed by Eric’s intensity, fitness, and drive and now he has got it all in a book so that everyone can reach their fitness goals. Well done!” —John McEnroe
Fasting Cancer: How Fasting and Nutritechnology Are Creating a Revolution in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
by Valter Longo PhDA groundbreaking guide to how fasting and nutritechnology are revolutionizing the prevention and treatment of cancer, from the bestselling author of The Longevity DietDespite all our scientific advances, which have allowed us to prevent and treat so many deadly diseases, almost one in two people will develop cancer in the U.S. In Fasting Cancer, Dr. Valter Longo, one of the leading scientists in the field of nutrition and cancer, reveals the results of decades of research on the fasting and nutrition technology−based studies to defeat cancer in the body, making only tumor cells much more vulnerable to therapy while protecting the healthy cells.Fasting Cancer creates a new path in which the patient is an active codriver of the therapy by turning on the body&’s ability to fight cancer. Dr. Longo&’s studies show that the fasting-mimicking diet is beginning to make cancer therapies potentially more effective and less toxic to patients, thus providing an evidence-based complementary approach to mainstream treatments. The book also describes how the everyday Longevity Diet and plant-based ketogenic diet can support cancer therapies.Rich in patient stories and clinical data, Fasting Cancer is a read that invites everyone—doctors, healthcare professionals, patients, and family members—to understand the extraordinary potential of a new approach to help fight cancer.
Fasting and Feasting (UK Edition) (UK Edition): The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
by Adam FedermanFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray—author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed—lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the BBC described her as an “almost forgotten culinary star.” Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. Gray’s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement—from foraging to eating locally—long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. Imagine if Michael Pollan or Barbara Kingsolver had spent several decades living among Italian, Greek, and Catalan peasants, recording their recipes and the significance of food and food gathering to their way of life. In Fasting and Feasting, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable—and until now untold—life story of Patience Gray: from her privileged and intellectual upbringing in England, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, and author, and describing her travels and culinary adventures in later years. A fascinating and spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them.