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The Healing Kitchen
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All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Earth, our mother, who feeds us in her sovereignty and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs.
St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun
This sampling of recipes is intended to illustrate the ease with which good nutrition can be incorporated into your daily life. It's important to understand, however, that food itself is only one part of nourishment. Planning, shopping, cooking, and eating with those loved ones who share your life can bring a wonderful sense of joy to mealtimes. Eating "on the run" or rigidly structuring a diet to fit a current health food trend prevents one from ever truly understanding the deep connection that exists between ourselves and naturethe world of plants and animals that was intended by God to sustain human life.
Nutritious food and herbs are healing; I consider them as much a part of a healing protocol as the herbal remedies themselves. The recipes that follow

 
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