My poor book club gals have to put up with my foodie-ness all the time in conversation and at restaurants (we went to a place with local, grassfed meats and organic produce tonight – divine!!!), and now I’m making them read about food for my month’s book choice. Luckily, the book I chose is, like good food, divine.
Real Food: What to Eat and Why
I really think you should read it. My book club has to, so why not everyone? 
I don’t own it (yet – Christmas list alert!) but devoured it and took copious notes when I checked it out from the library. Go on, go reserve yourself a copy at your local library right now. Just open a new tab. Then come on back here for a chance to WIN your very own!
I’m thrilled to be able to give one lucky reader a copy of Nina Planck’s Real Food: What to Eat and Why. This is for the underliners and highlighters who get in trouble when they mark up library books. Real Food belongs on your bookshelf!
What’s in Real Food?
Nina Planck explains her journey from farm girl to vegan and her discovery of real, traditional foods. She lauds raw milk, butter, cream and lard; teaches you which vegetables to eat more of and how to prepare them; explains the risks of industrial oils like corn and soybean (I’ll be quoting from her a lot this week and next!) and the age-old beauty of traditional fats; and unpacks a lot of science behind the current medical views on cholesterol, fats, and diseases of this century.
I devoured the text, truly.
If you need more to whet your appetite, see these sources:
- You can read a bit more about Nina’s philosophy of food at her website, Nina Planck, but it’s mostly under construction.
- She did a great interview with Food Renegade that you can find here: Nina Planck Interview. Nina explains what real food is to her and more.
- Also see a superb interview with New York Magazine. (Want to know what’s in Nina Planck’s fridge?)
But There’s More! Nina Wrote Two Books…
I actually won the very first blog giveaway I ever entered, and I received an advance copy of Nina Planck’s Real Food for Mother and Baby
This second book is inspired by the conception, birth and parenting of her first son, baby Julian. It is, in classic Planck style, maddeningly easy to read, the kind of book you fall into over coffee and realize you forgot to drink your coffee and dinner is burning on the stove because you’re fascinated by the food in your book.
If you are trying to conceive, pregnant, or parenting an infant, this book is a must-read. Infertility is rampant in our society, and I won’t even try to predict all the many possible reasons for that, but Nina Planck can at least give you a window into the “fertility diets” of old and help you be less stressed out about what you eat. Here is how the Real Baby Food website describes the text:
Pregnant women need meat and salt, not iron supplements. Delaying the introduction of certain solid foods doesn’t prevent allergies. Cereals are not the best foods for tiny eaters; meat and egg yolks are better. From conception to two years, your body’s overwhelming needs are for good fat and protein, not for carrots and skim milk.
Even as she casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, Nina is always reassuring. Mother, father, and baby can all thrive on good, simple food.
Kristen at Food Renegade shares a fabulous summary of Real Food for Mother and Baby, discussing each of the four parts of the book and the summary of “real food” that opens the text:
- The Fertility Diet
- Food for Mother and Baby (in utero)
- Infants and Breastfeeding
- First Foods for Baby
Win it!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY – THANKS FOR ENTERING!
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BONUS entry for linking up a super food recipe or leaving one in the comments at the October Fest Carnival of Super Foods, SUPER FOODS Fest.
- Mandatory entry: tell me why you’re interested in Real Food.
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- Ask me a question. Related to Kitchen Stewardship stuff would be great, but I’m in a fun mood, so shoot.
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Be sure to tell me everything you did in your comment. There are a possible 10 entries! If you can handle completing all 10, I’ll give you a bonus entry just for being perseverant (but tell me if you do in your comment so I’m not up counting all night). If you don’t have a blog, I’ll still give you the bonus if you complete the other 9. 
I still trust the honor system. Just be honest about what you’ve done – giveaways should be fun!
I will use random.org’s integer generator to choose the commenters who win from my list of commenter emails. The giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, October 23rd, and I’ll post the winners by the following Monday.
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I purchased the Real Food book for my cousin to try and get her into traditional foods, but I don’t have it myself and have been wanting to read it for at least a year.
I follow you on twitter and tweeted. I subscribed to your posts and I posted on Facebook.
Question – when one makes gelatinous stock, what exactly is it that makes it thick? I’m guessing from the gelatin in the bones – let me know if it’s wrong. Also, I want to know what makes it so much healthier.
I tweeted this and I follow you (of course!!)
Wow! This sounds like just the book(s) I have been looking for! Why am I interested in Real Food? Because that’s what I am aiming for more of in my diet. Working in fast food where I get one meal a day of highly processed food makes me long for fresher food when I am home. I try to cut out as much as possible of the nasty stuff while I can control it.
My question to you would be: What ideas do you have for a single woman living on a tight budget to eat more real foods?
Also, for another entry, I do follow your blog on google reader.
I’m interested in reading Nina Planck’s book Real Food because I want to be more informed on how I can better feed my family real foods. It is important that they learn those habits as kids and not grow up eating processed foods.
This comment is not an entry – it’s just a thank you!! After reading this post, I went to my library and checked out both books.
THANK YOU for the book suggestion/recommendation. I’m liking what I’m reading in these books and think it’ll be very helpful to my husband and I in the next few months.
I am interested in Real Food because, well, who doesn’t love real food? Yum. I am aiming more and more to cook real food every day. We do pretty good but still fall into traps every now and then.
I follow you on bloglines, too!
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1. I am interested in real food because of the health benefits I see our family reaping from it right now. We’re healthier and feel better than we did a year ago.
2. I subscribe in Google Reader.
3. Question: What foods or other remedies do you give your children when they’re sick? (Can you tell what we’re going through at our house?!)
Thanks for the giveaway!
1. I am interested in Real Food because I read the first few chapters when I borrowed the book from the library, but I would love to read the rest and have it available for reference (and to share with friends!)
2. I am a subscriber to your RSS feed
3. What are your favorite books on the subject of nutritious eating?
4. Favorite Mission Monday is about fats. I just started reading Eat Fat, Lose Fat and it really ties it all together!!
I’m interested Real Food because I read Planck’s first book from the library and I would LOVE to own a copy. It’s definitely the kind of book I want to have on my bookshelf. I’m also eager to read her second book. I was surprised that it received a thumbs down review in the latest WAPF journal and I would like to read it for myself.
I subscribe to your blog and sent out a tweet about your giveaway, too.
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(forgot to mention, I sent it out on Facebook, too!)
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1. I LOVE THESE BOOKS. I just finished reading the new one, and I want to win it so I don’t have to keep getting it from the library. I absollutely love these books.
2. You are on my google reader.
3. Can you please help me? I am pregnant w/Baby #2 and feel like I need to eat more organ meats. But I am scared of them.
4. I tweeted this.
5 and 6. I blogged it.
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Wow Katie, what perfect timing. Having just recently found out I am pregnant the Real Found for Mother and Baby would be a perfect book for me!!
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Of course I already subscribe through email
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I am a twitter follower (LegalChef18) and I just tweeted your giveaway!
Amanda´s last blog ..Raising Baby Green
So I have to ask…I just linked up to your how to make yogurt post in my recent Raising Baby Green… does it really taste like store bought yogurt? My taste buds are uber-sensitive right now and I don’t want to upset them.
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I am interested in Real Food because I am learning more and more about the connections between what we eat and how we feel. I am trying to learn as much as I can.
I subscribed via google reader