- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse.com; Reprint edition (2 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1440118191
- ISBN-13: 978-1440118197
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm
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The Feng Shui Cookbook reunites the Chinese art of feng shui with its ancient partner, food, to help you eat for optimal energy. Based on the same principles of yin-yang balance as the popular design practice, the book offers sixty-four recipes organized into yin, yang, and balanced categories, along with the tools to put feng shui principles to work in the kitchen and your life. Whether you seek to beat stress or motivate for peak performance, there's a delicious recipe here to satisfy your palate and re-balance your body and mind.
"If you think your cooking would improve if only your kitchen faced east, Elizabeth Miles' The Feng Shui Cookbook can help." - Self
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Take a delicious and daily path to essential energy!
This book sprang from my work as an author in holistic approaches to peak performance and health; my interest in the I Ching, the fountainhead of feng shui and Chinese nutritional medicine; and a passion for food as a force for good and a sensual gift to people. The ebb and flow of energy is both the principle behind feng shui and the biochemical essence of eating. Like many people, I had often instinctually soothed my stressed-out self with a meal of yin foods or fired up for a challenge with the nutritive power of yang. My research revealed that the Chinese have been balancing their energy flow by applying feng shui principles to food for millennia, and when I learned the ancient wisdom underlying these intuitive connections, I was eager to bring this delicious power to as many kitchens as I could! Please drop me a line, and dine in good qi! --Elizabeth Miles --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This book sprang from my work as an author in holistic approaches to peak performance and health; my interest in the I Ching, the fountainhead of feng shui and Chinese nutritional medicine; and a passion for food as a force for good and a sensual gift to people. The ebb and flow of energy is both the principle behind feng shui and the biochemical essence of eating. Like many people, I had often instinctually soothed my stressed-out self with a meal of yin foods or fired up for a challenge with the nutritive power of yang. My research revealed that the Chinese have been balancing their energy flow by applying feng shui principles to food for millennia, and when I learned the ancient wisdom underlying these intuitive connections, I was eager to bring this delicious power to as many kitchens as I could! Please drop me a line, and dine in good qi! --Elizabeth Miles --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful recipes and interesting background
23 Mar 1999
Format:Hardcover
I've heartily recommended this book to friends who are interested in Taoism and those who love to cook, and both groups seem pleased. I've cooked a dozen or so of the main dish recipes; none required cooking skills beyond the average meal-a-day home cook, and all the ingredients have been readily available at a well-stocked grocery. And every one has been a hit!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Yin, Yang and the Unwanted Dinner Guest
10 April 1999
Format:Hardcover
Having never been a person to play close attention to my yin, let alone my yang, I was understandably frazzled when my wife announced that our day guest had turned into a dinner guest. With two young children, dinner is on a set time-table. Now I pride myself on having dinner guests. Cooking is my hobby. (My wife told me I needed a hobby and her genius suggested cooking.)
So there I was with a few cans and a little over a pound of ground turkey meat. I rifled through my recipe books and came across one that I wasn't even aware of: Elizabeth Miles' The Feng Shui Cookbook. And there on pg. 167 was a recipe for Quick Chickpea Curry (containing the ground turkey). While the recipe promised to warm my qi and creative energy, I was glued to word quick.
Well in less than 20 minutes I had achieved both. The curry was fab, sprinkled with yogurt and cilantro. Our dinner guest went back for seconds and then thirds. And the conversation was robust. The Feng Shui part achieved its goal in spite of my cynicism.
Since I have enjoyed a number of the other dishes with other guests. Miles' text is as strong as her recipes. She has carefully crafted a book which tells you how certain food can feed certain moods and inspire different reactions. And this makes for immensely edible thoughts and results and of course, food.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Don't underestimate this book--it's great
4 Nov 2001
Format:Hardcover
I'm not sure what I expected when my wife brought home this cookbook (not much though). We must have 30 cookbooks... but we keep coming back to this book for quick and easy recipes that are quite wholesome. I can't vouch for the Feng Shui aspects--I guess it's cool that the dishes have a purpose. But every recipe we've tried has been great. We also like the Moosewood series of books--but find those recipes often take way longer than estimated (the ones in this book are very fast).
From the Feng Shui book we regularly make the peanut noodle vegetables; the chickpea curry (mentioned in another review), and the grape gazpacho. There are a couple other stand-bys... but we're also up to try new ones all the time.
There are some pretty goofy "theme" cookbooks out there... and, on the surface, this may seem like one too. But don't be left out--it really is good.
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