From My Mama's Kitchen: Food for the Soul, Recipes for Living Review

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(More customer reviews)Johnny Tan takes his treasured experience and warmly shares his lessons with us all in a unique approach. This is an inspirational piece that helps all of us realize the teachers, mentors, and especially mothers we have had in our very own lives. It is an excellent piece that touches all generations and backgrounds, connecting us all with the warmth we all know that comes from a kitchen. A must-read piece!

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Endorsed by the National Association of Mothers' Centers and a gold award winner in the category of Inspirational/Motivational from the Mom Choice Awards, this book is about the power of unconditional love, women empowerment, and potent leadership. Through nurturing motherly love, moms have the ability to make a positive difference in the lives of their loved ones in the roles of teacher, coach, and counselor. The book offers a wealth of wisdom for good parenting skills and communicating more effectively. Adopted at birth in Malaysia, Johnny Tan later arrived in the United States at 18 to attend college. His life's journey led him to cross paths with several women whom he affectionately refers to as moms. His 9 moms' insightful parenting skills and motivational words of wisdom helped him overcome the challenges of everyday living. The book pays tribute to moms all over the world in an entertaining, inspiring, and educational way. The kitchen is used as a wonderful backdrop because it is the heart of every home, and where Johnny and his moms enjoyed their many conversations. This book is designed as a keepsake for all occasions, meant to last and inspire forever. It includes a blank dedication page for readers to inscribe their own loved one's name, and a space where readers can record their recipes for living. At the very end of the book, Johnny incorporates nine of his favorite food recipes.

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The Little Book of Kitchen Table Wisdom Review

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(More customer reviews)Kitchen Table Wisdom is such a powerful and mind-opening book. Dr. Remen has so much packed into that book, that it's a gift to have the essence of it at my fingertips in this "little" book! For example, "The life in us is diminished by judgment far more frequently than by disease." I have found this to be so true. This is a great book to use as a daily practice for journaling, meditation and reflection.
Abby Caplin, MD, MA San Francisco, CA

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As a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long- term survivor of chronic illness, Dr. Rachel Remen, author of the inspirational classic Kitchen Table Wisdom, has a unique perspective on healing. Here are the passages, quotes, and stories from Kitchen Table Wisdom that have profoundly affected her legions of fans. The result is a guide to inner healing that everyone will cherish, and such spiritual issues as suffering, meaning, love, faith, and miracles that everyone can learn from and live by.

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Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary Review

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(More customer reviews)The Mentor Commentary by John A. Kitchen strikes a good balance between solid exegesis of the text and practical application. Kitchen utilizes the best in recent and older scholarship while maintaining a warm devotional spirit. If you are seeking a commentary which is clear and easy to understand while resting on the Bible this one is for you.

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The escalating growth of our technological knowledge in the last century has been nothing short of breathtaking - but has it rendered us wiser? Or godlier? We have lost something priceless and seem to be trying to replace it with more and more ‘information'. We need wisdom! Communications technology leaves us no rest to work things out: mostly we just react and worry, and fail - and react again. We make business decisions; ethical decisions; relationship decisions; against a continuously moving landscape that doesn't allow them to be satisfying... consistent... dependable. To cope we must have wisdom! There is no better starting point than the Book of Proverbs. Its purpose is to impart wisdom to those who want it. From its pages God promises to set us on ‘The path of life' (Prov. 15:24).‘You don't understand! I don't have time!'You do......because, after years of painstaking study, John Kitchen has produced a work that is authoritative, comprehensive and insightful. He examines the chronology, authorship, composition, structure and context of Proverbs and does the hard work of providing cross-references alerting the reader to rich veins running beneath the surface of Proverbs and other Biblical books. You want wisdom to help run your life? Think you are running out of time? Then this is a priceless, timeless book that will reward your investment as you seek to gain wisdom, rather than knowledge.

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Clara's Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression Review

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(More customer reviews)I'd seen a few of the Youtube videos featuring Clara Cannucciari a year or two ago (search "great depression cooking" on Youtube to find them) and was completely charmed, so it was a treat to find Clara's Kitchen on the new books shelf at my bookstore the other day.
This small book is full of memories, photos, and recipes from the 1920s and 30s--a peek into the life of Clara and her parents, brother, and extended Italian immigrant family as they struggled to get along in hard times. Reading Clara's stories is like sitting down with your own grandmother, and you may be inspired to seek out a grandparent or great-aunt or -uncle and find out how they survived those difficult years.
The recipes are mostly very simple--Dandelion Salad, Eggs and Potatoes, Pasta with Beans...with Broccoli...with Escarole--and mostly stem from traditional Italian cooking. Lots of pasta, lots of greens, lots of eggplant, supplemented with eggs and potatoes and tomato sauce.
And yet, though the dishes seem simple by today's standards, there's a lot of nutritional common sense to be found here, too, as Clara's family used fresh vegetables from their own garden and minimal meat, as it was too expensive for everyday use.
Clara's cheerfulness and practicality shine through her words, as she remembers the fun of family holidays and the luxury of Sunday chicken dinners, but she doesn't minimize the stress and sadness that parents and children dealt with as they struggled to make ends meet. I was especially touched by her brief description of having to drop out of high school in the tenth grade because her family needed her to be out working and bringing in money. Simply told, but you can feel her regret.
This is living history, perfectly captured. A gem of a book.

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YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.

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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal Review

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(More customer reviews)Several friends had told me about Kitchen Table Wisdom over the years, and I just put off purchasing it. Then while recovering in the hospital from surgery, the chaplin suggested I read it. I read it during my recovery and have not stopped reading it since. There are so many lessons in the book, and Dr. Remen's selection of stories and writing style present an education on how to be human and to develop a deeper understanding of the humanity each one of us posseses. I look at my life, and those around me in a different way since I read the book. Dr. Remen has taught me that we all have the capacity to make our life a blessing and she is truly a blessing to all that read her words.

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Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary Review

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(More customer reviews)Anyone who reads Kitchen Table Wisdom will be touched and inspired by the learning processes of the patients and the life lessons which they teach us through their experiences. The stories are life-affirming and will validate your own experiences in a way that is frequently unavailable in our present social context.
This is a MUST READ for anyone who is a "health-care professional." The wisdom and compassion learned from a lifetime of being both a doctor and a healer is beautifully and articulately expressed in this book. It could easily be described as an ethical will.

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Praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness. In a deeply moving and down-to-earth collection of true stories, this prominent physician shows us life in all its power and mystery and reminds us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives.

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