Food Drying with an Attitude or Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats

Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts

Author: Mary T Bell

"What a glorious book! This is now essential reading for our entire culinary team at Charlie Trotter's restaurant."—Charlie Trotter

This ultimate food drying resource has something for everyone: vegetarians, natural and raw food enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, gourmet cooks, gardeners, farmers, hikers, and even fast food junkies. With more than thirty years of food drying experience, Mary T. Bell offers straightforward and practical instructions for drying everything from yogurt to sauerkraut to blue cheese, without ignoring traditional favorites such as jerky, mushrooms, and bananas. Throughout, Bell offers nutritional tips and highlights the time-, space-, and money-saving benefits of food dehydrating. Also included are descriptions of how various food dehydrators work to give readers a better understanding of the tools of the craft. Food Drying with Attitude gives readers the recipes, instructions, and inspiration they need to get the most out of their home food dehydrators. 100 color photographs.

See also: Cooking for Two or The Silver Palate Cookbook

Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats: The Ultimate Diet

Author: Kymythy R Schultz

There are an estimated 60 million dogs and 70 million cats living as beloved companions in American homes, and feeding pets is a multi-billion dollar business. With pet disease and illness on the rise, a significant proportion of pet owners are turning to holistic health care to prevent disease and enhance their pet's well-being. The foundation of holistic care is optimal nutrition, Our own doctors extol the virtues of eating fewer processed foods and more fresh foods if we wish to enjoy good health. Certainly, our pets deserve the same consideration. This easy-to-read book will help pet-lovers enable their dogs and cats to enjoy an ideal quality of life through a species-appropriate diet of raw, natural foods. Readers learn how to easily prepare a healthy homemade meal so their pet can have a shiny coat, healthy skin and digestion, clean teeth, bright eyes, and no fleas or "doggy breath." Also included are the Holistic Animal Yellow Pages, an invaluable information resource.