Buch lesen: "The Blood Type Diet Cookbook"

To Madeleine where all started and to Pauline,

Philip and Thomas where all continues

Lucy Degrémont

To Michel

Karen Vago

contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

The Four Blood Types Made Easy

Blood Type O: General Food Recommendations

Blood Type A: General Food Recommendations

Blood Type B: General Food Recommendations

Blood Type Ab: General Food Recommendations

The Food Lists

Type O

Type A

Type B

Type AB

The Recipes

Soups

Salads

Vegetables

Goat’s Cheese

Snails

Seafood

Meat, Poultry and Game

Tofu and Tempeh

Sauces

Desserts

Drinks

Festive Cakes

Christmas Recipes

Basic Recipes

The Blood Type Diet Menus

Recipe List

Bibliography

Resources

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

foreword

This book has taken a long time to come to fruition. Over the years the idea behind it gradually blossomed, shaped by our observations of both gourmet cook books and health cook books. We felt there was a gap between the two aspects of eating – pleasure and health. We hope this book will bridge that gap.

Twenty years ago we were young mothers, each with three children, and in both our families one child had severe allergy problems. This motivated us to find curative solutions: one of them being nutrition. Our interest duly kindled, we went on to study nutrition (Karen) and gourmet cuisine (Lucy).

Shared passions have led to shared knowledge and during the past three years we have become increasingly interested in the science of eating according to one’s blood group. Members of our families, friends and patients have all been reaping the benefits of this fundamental research, brought to light by Dr Peter D’Adamo. The results we have witnessed have been truly amazing and we feel privileged to be sharing this knowledge and our experience through these recipes.

For the past four seasons we have regularly left our respective family lives for cooking sessions in the Loire valley. We spent time with the producers of goat’s cheese, we followed the aroma of summer strawberries to the fields where they were grown, we visited a small organic yogurt plant surrounded by big yellow sunflowers. We went completely over the top during the wild game season and marinated, stuffed and roasted everything from deer to partridges. We gathered fruit from the trees, little yellow plums to large pear-sized quinces, hazelnuts and walnuts. The days flew by in planning, shopping, researching, creating, measuring, cooking, writing, eating and sharing our food. We did it all ourselves and loved every minute of it.

Each season directed the choice of produce we used for our recipes as we feel nature provides chronobiologically what we need: in the summer friends gave us vegetables from their gardens, and in the autumn fruits from their trees and game from their forests. We believe in cooking with the freshest possible produce, using plenty of vegetables, fruit, free-range poultry, wild game (which by essence is organic), meat without hormones, wild fish if possible, herbs, spices and the finest quality oils.

Our recipes cover a wide range and include soups, salads, vegetables, goat’s cheese, fish, poultry and game, meat, tofu and tempeh, sauces, desserts, drinks, festive dishes, Christmas and basic recipes. Each recipe is accompanied by blood type recommendations and, where appropriate, scientifically tested and traditionally proven dietary information about one of the main ingredients.

Tempting as it may be to jump straight in and try the recipes, do read the following chapter on blood types first. This provides background information on the origin of blood types, how our blood type can affect our health and how it interacts with the food we eat. Food recommendations are also given and these are complemented by the food lists, which provide a further guide on what each blood group should and should not eat.

To get you started we have created one week of menus for each season and for each blood type. In addition we felt it useful for you to have seven days of menus appropriate for all blood types. This will allow you to occasionally feed all blood groups at your table. The menus can be found at the back of the book, along with the recipe list that allows you to tell, at a glance, which recipe is suitable for which blood type. And for anyone still unsure of the benefits of following the diet we have included case histories for each blood type – these real life experiences are from patients who have experienced the turnaround in health that comes with following the blood type diet.