Saturday, January 3, 2009

Ayurvedic Cooking Made Easy or Cote DOr

Ayurvedic Cooking Made Easy: Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Your Body Type

Author: Kumuda Reddy

The ancient Indian system of healing and medicine known as Ayurveda has proven effective in disease prevention and health creation for thousands of years. Ayurvedic medicine works by enlivening the body's inner intelligence and enhancing the immunity of the individual. It treats the disease at the source rather than the symptoms alone, without adverse side effects or creating a new disease.

Popularized in the United States by Deepak Chopra and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ayurveda has become well known and is used extensively throughout North America as a holistic alternative both to allopathic and to homeopathic medicine.

In this comprehensive guide to Ayurvedic cooking—complete with a set of delicious and easy-to-make recipes—physician and naturopath Dr. Kumuda Reddy shows you how to determine whether your body type is vata, pitta, or kapha, so that you can optimize your individual health through healthy and nutritious meals that suit your body type.

Author Bio: Kumuda Reddy, M.D., has been practicing medicine for twenty years. She completed her training at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. She is a former member and anesthesiologist at Albany Medical College. She and her family reside in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the author of a number of books on the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health including Forever Healthy: An Introduction to Maharishi Ayur-veda and For a Blissful Baby: Healthy and Happy Pregnancy with Maharishi Vedic Medicine. Along with writing and lecturing on the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, Dr. Reddy writes children's books based on traditional stories of India.



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Cote D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy

Author: Clive Coates

The heart of Burgundy, the Côte D'Or, produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines that are unrivaled in their quality, intensity, and ability to age in the bottle. On this "golden slope" in eastern France, with its unique terrains and climats, grow the vines for some of the world's finest wines, among them such heralded names as Gevrey-Chambertin, Vosne-Romanée, Puligny- and Chassagne-Montrachet, and Aloxe-Corton. Clive Coates, Master of Wine, has spent much of the last fifteen years in the Côte D'Or, and this book is the splendid result of his assiduous exploring, tasting, and assessing of the region's wines.
With his unique access to each clos and domaine, and to individual negociants and vignerons, Coates may know more about the Côte D'Or and its wines than any other living writer. In Part One, he describes the Côte D'Or's famous villages, introduces every manor grower and his wines, and evaluates each grand and premier cru, recommending the best sources in every climat. Part Two profiles the top sixty domaines, with notes on a vertical tasting of one of their wines. Part Three consists of vintage assessments on the best red and white years since 1945 and includes thousands of detailed tasting notes.
Côte D'Or is a work of love and passion, praise and criticism, understanding and scholarship. Above all, it is a celebration of one of the world's great wine regions, the people who live there, and their fabled wines. It is an essential addition to every wine library and an inviting read for any wine lover.

Richmond Times-Dispatch

If you know a person who is so into the subject of wine that he built his house around the wine cellar, the book for him is Cote D'or. This book is a celebration both enlightening and entertaining of one of the world's great wine regions.



1 comment:

Michael said...

Ayurvedic remedy is based on natural and herbal techniques and supplements, which are 100% side effect free. Ayurveda does not believe in antidotes and antigens, very rarely those techniques are used, Ayurveda works not to suppress the system of body, but to go to the origin and cure the basic disturbing element. In such treatments there are very low chances of side effect and the benefit of the body is forever. It gives you a complete health treatment, which works on the complete body system so it makes you feel better in your entire body.