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were especially outstanding. Thank you healthy traditional snacks. I am going lowfat movement. She has always eaten
for the article about cookware. You gave to start compiling the recipes, tips, etc., a diet rich in whole milk, yogurt, butter,
me many new reasons to enjoy using my in a notebook, and then have it made cream, cheese and meat with the fat on.
cast-iron Lodge cookware as well as my up into a cookbook, which will make She is in great health, takes no medica-
enameled cast-iron cookware. tion, still cooks and cleans, gar-
Next, the articles in your dens, and walks everywhere. Her
most recent issue about cooking skin is amazing. My Dad is also
nourishing traditional foods on a in great health, a great cook and
budget and cooking for children gardener! They both take cod
in school were some of your liver oil every day. Both of them
best. Both articles are so chock- are mentally sharp and have their
full of useful information. I have original teeth.
been working so hard over the I have one other thing
last few months to buy the best to share with you. One of my
food that I can find—organic girlfriends was plagued with mis-
and local—and I was amazed carriages—about seven over the
at how much money I was able course of the last twenty years.
to save by buying as much as I Then she started eating a nourish-
can from local farms. With meal ing traditional diet a few years
planning and menu creations, back, including raw dairy, organ
and some advanced preparation, meats (she loves head cheese!)
my family is able to eat real food and fermented beverages. And
prepared in a traditional, health- now she is pregnant, at 43. She
giving manner. Dr. Sergeant’s is looking forward to delivering
article has armed me with ad- a healthy and happy baby boy in
ditional information to help me January! Thank you once again.
even more with feeding my family on a a wonderful fundraising opportunity Mary Shrader
budget. for our co-op. I hope the snacks and the Austin, Texas
Finally, the article on a healthy cookbook will encourage more nourish-
school lunch program was so timely for ing lunches brought from home. My son SCHOOL LUNCH
me. I recently enrolled my son in a two- is a wonderful ambassador, proud to COOKBOOK NEEDED!
day home school co-op that presently bring out his raw milk, crispy nuts and Thank you for your article, “Cook-
has no lunch program in place. After sourdough meat-filled sandwiches at ing for Sequoia Academy” (Fall, 2008).
some observations of what the children lunch time. With his impressive height, We need author Stephanie Rivers to
were bringing for lunch, all I could think trim yet strong physique, “milk-fed” write a cookbook! It’s very challenging,
about was the manual that Ms. Rivers rosy cheeks and pleasant demeanor, I at times, to come up with WAPF-type
described in her article about Sequoia can see some of the other parents taking recipes when there are multiple food
Academy. notice! sensitivities involved. For example, my
I am on a mission now to teach, I wanted to share with you a photo daughter and some of her friends are
teach, teach. I am responsible for bring- of my parents Gloria and Jim, married on gluten-free diets. I make gluten-free
ing the mid-morning snack for the for fifty years. Mom is 83 and Dad is muffins, but I have been unfortunately
children and am going to start bringing 78. My mother never succumbed to the using those rice-based mixes from the

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