Welcoming Food, Book 1: Energetics of Food and Healing: Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers Paperback – January 22, 2020

Should allopathic medicine fail you (or even if it doesn't), this is an excellent book on nutrition from a TCM point of view. I bought it at the recommendation of Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott (TCM practitioner), who has a very good website for a looksee into TCM and TCM nutrition (I don't think Amazon allows me to list it here, but you should be able to do a search on his name). The only thing I found lacking, was that I would have liked a chart of common foods and their energies and directions. A reference chart would have made things a bit easier to implement. It also would help to have a diagnosis by a TCM practitioner before you read this book, but not entirely necessary. On to the second book!

I highly recommend these books! A family member with IBS-liike troubles was freed from pain and a variety of troubling symptoms and daily miseries, and has developed a remarkably clear, quickly achieved improvement overall in both health and quality of life. Really astonishing!!!This author introduces the world of food energetics, and encourages what I think of as a deeper view of our relationship with the food we eat, and how to delight in and welcome our food deeply. A treasure for anyone with or without obvious health concerns, as well as anyone cooking for and caring for others. The work is a two volume set; really best if you have them both, but each can stand separately I think.

This is a book of great importance. Andrew uses his vast knowledge and experience to reveal the true essence and energy behind foods and how each specifically impacts the whole body, organs and spirit. In Book 2 Andrew goes even farther and teaches us how to prepare these foods and pair them synergistically with other ingredients to maximize healing and health. He brings us esoteric knowledge from healers who have been practicing these methods for millennia with profound impacts on not only life-span but health-span. So grateful to have the benefit of his knowledge in this easy-to-digest format. (Pun Intended).

Written from a Chinese Dietary perspective. Andrew has done a fabulous job in culling his extensive study and love of food, whilst traveling through the world as a saxophonist no less! I had the supreme good fortune to have dined at his home and sampled his wisdom and talent. This and Book 2 has reaffirmed my dedication to following the wisdom of the ancients. Eat with the seasons, listen to and nourish your body, and enjoy every morsel.In addition the book reads like a novel at times. So easy and fun. Thank you Andrew...and your team, especially Ann and Miriam.

If you are a practitioner of Chinese Medicine, a Healer, a Home cook, this is the book(s) we have all been waiting for!This is the most clear and concise book available on "Food and Healing". Andrew Sterman has made this very complicated topic about the role food plays in healing available to us all. Very easy to read, comprehend and apply.I highly recommend both books:Book 1 "Energetics of Food and HealingBook 2:"Recipes and Kitchen Practice".

Andrew Sterman has written a masterful text. His approach is accessible to lay persons and practitioners alike. He approaches exceedingly complex theory and diagnosis with such an astutely simple framework that the concepts are easily grasped. He has done the years of clinical research and study to make the results look effortless. His language often has the quality of lyrical prose and offers countless pearls of wisdom...like a true Chinese Medicine Scholar. I am honored and grateful to have access to the insights of decades of passionate and deep love for the nourishing of humanity.

Both volumes are must read. Guidance is plain and easy to follow. Delicious game changers.