My Kitchen Cure: How I Cooked My Way Out of Chronic Autoimmune Disease with Whole Foods and Healing Recipes

I really like the book but it is almost 200 pages of her just talking about herself, lifestyle, family and friends.. I get it she wants you to know how it all started and everyone that helped her get to where she is today. It was just to lengthy for me, maybe not a problem for others but I wanted more of the recipes and info about the vitamins and minerals. which she does get to after reading 200 pages, I love the recipes and all the other information she gives. I would recommend this book to others

This is going to have to be one of those rolling reviews that you add to as you go along. That's because I haven't finished the book yet. It's good enough that one has to read it in bite size chunks and think carefully about what one has read.It's also the kind of book that drives publishers nuts, in that it doesn't drop easily into a genre in a bookstore. It's a memoir that's also a treatise on "real" food and it's also a cookbook. From a traditional publisher's marketing standpoint that's a nightmare. From a reader's standpoint it's perfect.I've got a half a dozen books here on how to organize your diet for health and maximum function and I can't force myself to read them. They bore me to tears. My Kitchen Cure is witty, charming, and engaging. It would be fun to read if it weren't on an important subject.In the spirit of full disclosure I should say that I have been friends with Mee McCormick for about ten years. Our paths have diverged of late, but I can truthfully attest that she is just as nice, fun, and charming in person as she is in the book. I can also say that when I was hanging out with Mee and her family she was going through the worst of her intestinal health problems, and she never said anything about it. Through it all she was smart, funny, and the world's most perfect hostess. Where I went to school that's how you define a class act.The memoir part, which I'm still reading, is important, because it tells the story of how she faced the same fears about the complete reorganization of her diet that I still have. She is not some lofty expert extolling from on high. She's a buddy helping you through what she went through herself.Our situations are quite different however. She was born, or acquired at birth, an intestinal deficiency that led to horrible ulcers and an intestinal weakness that sapped her strength, and made her vulnerable to multiple debilitating health issues, and, oh yeah, threatened her life.Me, I can eat anything. The problem is that I actually do. I need to reorganize my diet to drop about thirty pounds and live for a long time. No matter, the problem is different, but the solution is the same.More to follow.

I love this cookbook. It's actually not just a cook book it's Mee's story. It about her struggle and research with food. My boyfriend had been sick for a really long time and doctors couldn't find what was wrong with him. He was feeling so defeated and void of energy and was in digestive hell. I bought this book for myself because I have hashomoto's disease and my medication was tearing all my symptoms. However I found myself reading exerts of the book to my boyfriend because Mee's symptoms sounded so much like his. We decided to follow the advice of the cookbook and within a month his symptoms subsided and we both had less joint pain, better digestion and a lot more energy. There are a lot of the recipes that have become staples in out lives and it really isn't a lot of work. I find that I prepare my food for the week in advance on Sunday so I have them on hand for the week. But there are recipes in there that also u can do the night before. Mee's book changed our lives. We are going out and enjoying our selves, each other and our friends again. I would recommend this book to anyone with an autoimmune disease or anyone who is void of energy. Not everything tastes great. But u feel so good that it's worth the sacrifice.

I'm too early into all this to tell, yet. I have spent 2 months on SCD diet, but have never intended to stay off all grains permanently. It makes since to eliminate basically everything but the easiest to digest foods for a few days, then reintroduce new easiest to digest foods one at a time, slowly, to figure out what foods are causing dis-ease. But I knew I would give " the illegal" a try when I stabilized. I don't want to take supplements (vitamins) let alone keep taking expensive prescription meds, so I appreciate having Mee's guideline for natural and healthy foods. I have to travel out of our little town to shop, since we don't have a whole food store or a trader joes. But, I've done it with high hopes that I can tolerate these foods.

Wow! This girl has really done her research! I can relate to her story on so many levels. let's get to the fun part... The food. everything I have made so far I loved. the coconut oatmeal... I can never eat it any other way. the almond flour pancakes are so yummy. the beef stew is the best I've ever had! it is so dang good it'll make you take back things you didn't even steal! the miso soup is hearty not like the bowl of salt water that you get in some restaurants with a mushroom floating in it. the butternut squash soup is perfect for fall. parsnip fries are awesome they taste like sweet potato fries! pair them with the fish sticks and you will have a kid friendly meal. the meatloaf is even better the second day. it tastes like, well, a really good meatloaf! I substituted oatmeal for the quinoa. I've always put oatmeal in my meatloaf instead of breadcrumbs that's just how I make it YUM! I love the mashed sweet Papas! this is a great dish to serve for Thanksgiving instead of the sweet potato casserole. you can even throw in a little cinnamon and some crushed pecans on top. everything is very flavorful. so far everything I have made is absolutely delicious!

I feel a huge responsibility being the first reviewer in the UK and also please be aware that I am writing from the perspective of someone who has no choice about a gluten free diet. If you have no diagnosed conditions such as Coeliac then you will not have to worry about that aspect.UK Market - applies to us all. In rural Dorset I have no access to or knowledge of some of the ingredients, they haven't traveled overseas well such as: corn grits, many of the sea vegetables, kuzu, lotus root, coconut aminos or Organic shoyu sauce. If you are in London or other cities you may well have access to these more oriental products.The measurements are in cups - I have brought cups myself previously, but beware if you don't have them.I purchased this book to cure the symptoms I have that relate to my autoimmune condition - the 'what it says on the tin' idea seeing as that was in the title, but I would have been better to have walked into a book shop to read this book first to know that it isn't for me. This book suffers from being written by someone who choose to go Gluten free as opposed to someone who would be ill by ingesting it; therefore some of the recipes have failings that would make a medically diagnosed coeliac ill. even though recipes are at times listed as being gluten free I found glaring mistakes that would make them unsuitable, such as a cup of malt barley for one ingredient. (some recipes do not state they are gluten-free and I ignored those) Some of the stated ingredients are also contradictory to other reading I have done about their suitability in the diet of someone with an autoimmune condition - ie beans/legumesGenerally I didn't expect to have 184 large pages (almost A4 in size) detailing the life and trails of the author. Its not that it isn't relevant at times but a summarized version wouldn't have hurt. It made me question if I had picked up a cookery book or a biography as I didn't feel I could apply the same things as Mee did to my life - I can't hire a cook, I can't afford weekly massage and therapy sessions nor go discover Nashville. I don't own four houses and can't afford to spend hours cooking for my work lunch.If you want a cookery book on Asian or Mexican style cookery & know more about ingredients than I do, yeah give it a bash - shes very enthusiastic.

This book claims to be about cooking for autoimmune disease. However, most autoimmune protocols that I'm aware of recommend against eggs (or at least the whites), nightshades, nuts and seeds - all of which crop up in this book. It's even less suitable for an AIP paleo approach (not that it claims to be) as sugars, dairy, beans, grains, tofu and other soy products, commercial gluten-free baked goods and vegetable oils also feature heavily (in the part I read - see below). I'm really not sure who this book would be useful for. Not me!The writing style is also highly individual and the author's refusal to fully write out 'them' and insistence on calling everything 'bangin' wear thin quickly. I couldn't bring myself to read the first part of the book, and gave up after skimming through the recipes and determining that the majority of them include foods that I exclude from my diet.

If this author follows this regimen, all power to her, but it would take all her time and energy. You would have to be desparately ill to take up this program.

I love this book. Once I actually found the ingredients in the health food store, it was easy to make the recipes.

have learned lots. would recommend due to the sharing of information and experience.