Mollie's Reviews > Cultured Food for Health: A Guide to Healing Yourself with Probiotic Foods Kefir * Kombucha * Cultured Vegetables

Having read Donna Scwenk's first book, Cultured Food for Life, I wondered if her followup book would yield even more information. Cultured Food for Health did not disappoint.

Once again, she focuses on kefir, kombucha and fermented vegetables but, she adds information about prebiotics, which are mainly found in fruit and vegetables.

She is unfailingly positive in her approach, focusing on health. And defining illness as "a sign from your body that it needs help correcting something."

For me, that highlights the thread running running this book....trust. Trust that you can learn not only from other's stories but from your own body. Using her step by step instructions on how to sequence getting started cooking and ingesting these foods, she supports the reader in trusting that they can do this.

For me, creating bubbling foods that sit out on the kitchen counter for days did not feel natural. Cooking was about subjecting food to heat, stirring and hoping for the best. Because of Donna, I realize food can morph into something healthy if I place it in a container and get out of the way.