Sprouts: The Miracle Food: The Complete Guide to Sprouting Paperback – July 1, 1998

This is a great book for a person who is interested in sprouting; it is very detailed and is truly full of very interesting and useful information. The book also helps to nullify a lot of the myth about toxins and hidden dangers in sprouts. The real dangers, in actuality, exist in cooked, processed, adulterated, toyed-with, sprayed, chemicalized, distorted foods (which our grocery shelves are full of). I am now 50 years old. Back in my youthful college days, I used to sprout a great deal, eating living foods exclusively. Though I stayed being a vegetarian, I got back into the cooked food craze... eating food like it was a drug for "taste" only. I work with the multiply handicapped and even though I am a teacher I have to do a lot of lifting (of adults who are not at all feather-weight). My arthritis (which runs in the family) was killing me, despite taking all kinds of natural and man made supplements. Getting back to live food was the answer I needed. Steve's book was inspirational and very helpful. I should have never deviated from what was truly the most nutritious way to eat!There are many ways of sprouting. I happen to like the sproutpeople.com sprouters best of all. Steve's book is a priceless tool for anyone interested in sprouting... it has all kinds of neat tips and suggestions.Also, one suggests doing a web search on Dr. Budwig's Diet... as most people are seriously deficient in essential fatty acids of the proper type. I take my oil with a little bit of live yogurt.Anyway... I would not want Steve's book, including his Kitchen Garden book... missing from my shelves!As Hippocrates said: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."

For anyone interested in self preservation through healthy eating, this is the book for you. I'm delighted to know that a person can live and especially thrive on sprouts. Equally exciting was the history I discovered in this book about Quinoa (and even how to pronounce it - keen-wa) and the science behind why some sprouts are beneficial for preventing certain diseases. Steve also brings to light some fungicides and pesticides used in commercial agriculture... and as you probably guessed they aren't good for you.Steve does a great job telling you what's what about sprouts including how to grow them, what you need to know about different seeds, why to eat them, what some nutritional values looked like, and he even provided a growth and harvest chart that I found useful. His personal experience with healing is inspiring but you won't read about that in here; this book's purpose is to quickly educate you and get you farming your own sprouts... now.My wife and kids are traditional eaters, but they sure did enjoy watching me grow the sprouts and then sampling them with me. After reading the book, growing them was easy and it's actually inexpensive. The flavor was wonderful. If you haven't tasted organic sprouts you haven't tasted true flavor.If you're thinking about growing your own, there is something about it I think everyone should experience and Steve's book will get you off to a successful start.

I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this book. She said it was in good condition, but I would really say it was excellent condition. There is nothing wrong or broken about this book occasionally will use a secondary seller if it's so much cheaper why woud you buy it the first place?The contents of this book were little outdated and wasn't really geared towards at people at home who sprout, but I did learn things from it.Yes, I would recommend the seller.

Got interested in this when a friend in a remote Alaskan community started sprouting veggies - much cheaper and healthier than buying sad veggies at a local store. So even though there are plenty of decent stores in Anchorage, because of this book I have started sprouting veggies. After reading in this book about using cloth bags to sprout in, I even made unbleached muslin bags. It's an informative book, a little wordier than I normally like (hence the 4 stars, not 5), but a great book nonetheless.

As a person most interested in ideas and discovery, eureka ideas one might say, I didn't begin to read the instructions provided by others until after already developing successful methods empirically. I have been sprouting for a quarter of a century. It is natural that most of my methods have some contrast with those presented in this guide. This book is replete with good ideas and methods and useful even to an inventive, innovative person in the sprout field. I would particularly commend it for people who don't have the time or patience to learn things the hard way. I limit my production of various sprout products to 20 square feet per crop, because other projects command my attention. Frankly, many of my methods are proprietary (trade secrets). For those wishing to produce family quantities of sprouts who don't yet quite know what they are doing, this book is a fine resource, replete with an array of sound information.