I love the ideas in this cookbook, which focuses on whole foods the entire family will enjoy. It's clear and sensible, and includes a couple hundred pages of recipes.

This is a wonderful cookbook featuring the artwork of Nikki McClure.

The title begs the question, what makes a food a whole? And Cynthia Lair has a few points that help clarify; Can you imagine it growing? It's hard to picture a field of marshmallows. How many ingredients does it have? What's been done to the food since it was harvested? The less the better, in both cases.

The book starts out with talking about what wholesale means, and how to shop for sustenance and nourishment -- versus just buying things to fill you up, regardless of where they came from... and then it goes full into tons of delicious, wholesome recipes.