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Let’s Cook it Right
1947
Adelle Davis
Davis' first book is about food preparation and cooking to preserve nutrition.
Key Takeaways:
Focuses on cooking methods that preserve vitamins and minerals in everyday meals.
Critiques overcooking, canning, and refining as processes that destroy food’s nutritional value.
Provides recipes and techniques aligned with whole‑food, nutrient‑conscious home cooking.
Early example of a cookbook explicitly guided by nutritional science.
Categories
Cookbooks and Recipes
Eccentrics, Fanatics, Visionaries
General nutrition
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