Author Description

"Nourishing Connections Cookbook is the inspiring story of a how a community gathered its resources to creatively address a multitude of needs. The Ceres Community Project provides 25,000 beautiful, delicious and nourishing free meals each year to individuals and families living with a life-threatening illness such as cancer. The program's chefs are hundreds of teens from more than eighteen local schools. The young chefs gain culinary and leadership skills, knowledge, and the inspiration to make cooking and eating whole foods a part of their life. The book's more than one hundred recipes represent those most loved by the Ceres Community Project's clients and all have been home tested by people living with serious illness. For those with limited energy, each recipe comes with suggestions for how to break down the preparation tasks into smaller steps over several days, as well as a wealth of suggestions for how to nourish your self well with almost no cooking."--Provided by publisher.