BREAD BAKING COOKBOOKS   [click on the pink words to go amazon.com]
Bread Alone by Daniel Leader This has many recipes for non-yeasted spelt breads. His latest books: Panini Express: 70 Delicious Recipes Hot Off the Press and Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers with some changes in his technique. These books are great for teaching oneself how to make non yeasted breads.

Whole Grains Sourdough Bread Video very informative for anyone serious about baking non-yeasted spelt bread. Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book can be found at the same site.

RAW UNCOOKBOOKS
Raw The Uncook Book by Juliano Brotman. This one has a recipe for essene bread that is sunbaked by using sprouted grains.
Raw by Roxanne Klein, Charlie Trotter. I have had the pleasure of dining at Roxanne's in Larkspur, California - a delightful culinary experience that is well equal to any fine experience in Europe. These uncooked meals take a long time to prepare and are labor intensive. The chefs utilize raw nuts, raw vegetables,raw fruits, and sprouted grains maintaining active enzymes that are abundant. Roxanne has closed her restaurant but still has take out, equally delicious.

VEGETARIAN COOKBOOKS
The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison who has her own website. She is my favorite cookbook author. She encourages the reader to make use of readily available ingredients substituting if you are unable to find a particular item. The salads are delicious and her pairings with vegetables and herbs just make each dish pop.
Vegetarian suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen by Deborah Madison
Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen by Deborah Madison
Field of Green: New Vegetarian Recipes from Greens restaurant by Annie somerville
The Savoury Way by Deborah Madison
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison A very thick vegetarian cooking book that has many vegetables listed and ways to cook them. She is my favorite cookbook author and Greens Restaurant in Ft Mason in San Francisco is a must for me whenever I visit the Bay Area. For a review of this book click here.
Charlie Trotters Vegetables by Charlie Trotter. Plan on spending all day preparing these recipes. They are delicious but require planning.

VEGAN COOKBOOKS - HEART HEALTHY
Millennium Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegan Cuisine by Eric Tucker. This cookbook uses seitan, wheat and soy products (I avoid soy seitan and wheat as it makes my liver cysts grow). It is filled with heart healthy vegan dishes. Millennium Restaurant is the number one favorite restaurant of vegetarians in the USA. My personal favorite is Fleur de Lys in San Francisco on Sutter Street and Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. To read about many vegetarian restaurants in San Francisco click here. For everyday eating, I enjoy Herbivore-Vegan Restaurant. The Pritikin cookbooks are heart healthy with many meat recipes. One will have to pick and choose from these recipes and check ingredients carefully.

COPING WITH KIDNEY DISEASE
Low Protein for PKU. This book is written for PKU, however some have found the recipes are useful for a very low protein diet. This is the book for 22 gram protein diet supplemented with essential amino acids from Dr. Walser's program at Johns Hopkins.
Coping with Kidney Disease by Mackenzie Walser MD Johns Hopkins University Professor of Medicine. This is a useful, well-written and helpful book when one is approaching dialysis or transplant. It is written for the layperson, however parts are technical. Precise directions are given as to how one can go about arresting the downward progression of kidney disease once protein appears in the urine. Limiting protein to 22 grams each day or 0.3 grams per kilogram of body weight, supplementing with essential amino acids, and maintaining alkalinity accomplishes this. I have seen this work with 2-3 extremely well motivated individuals. If dropping the daily protein intake before nephrotic syndrome develops is helpful, this has not yet been established. The book uses sodium bicarbonate to correct acidosis. A better alternative alkalizer might be sodium citrate. Some unique observations are made by Dr. Walser:
 • nausea and vomiting associated with anemia
 • leg cramps - itching when the body is too acid
He corrects anemia early so it does not lead to LVH left ventricular hypertrophy. Some have found, when taking iron tablets, all natural rose hips vitamin C aides to increase iron absorption. Dr. Walser goes over medications including many OTC’s that can precipitate a decline in kidney functioning. Very interesting reading email
Reverse Aging by Sang Whang - a review
This author writes about drinking alkaline water. I tried water from a water ionizer. I have observed that individuals who drink this water without altering their diet, health is not as readily apparent as one does institute dietary lifestyle changes as well. There is information about a far infrared device and the use of acid water to wash skin. Farmers dip fruits and vegetables in acid waters to keep them crisper. I found this interesting since most of the books on youthful skin talk of using acidic solutions. His explanation seems plausible - that the skin needs the added acidity to keep bacteria from invading and penetrating the skin. email
An Apple a Day - Is it enough today? by M.Ted Morter, Though it is about an alkaline diet, it is not geared specifically to kidney or liver disease.

NUTRITIONAL DATABASE
Bowes & Church's Food values of portions commonly used. By Pennington & Bowes
USDA national nutrient database for an online search.

KIDNEY COOKBOOKS
The following cookbooks are listed, but most do not utilize either of these books
Cookbook Dialysis
Cookbook Renal or download a copy of a Renal Cookbook