The Real Paleo Diet Cookbook: 250 All-New Recipes from the Paleo Expert

778 Pages·2015·19.1 MB·English

by  Loren Cordain Ph.D.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PALEO PRINCIPLES

FLAVOR

EQUIPMENT

CHAPTER 1: BREAKFAST & BRUNCH

CHAPTER 2: APPETIZERS, SNACKS & BEVERAGES

CHAPTER 3: BEEF & BISON

CHAPTER 4: PORK & LAMB

CHAPTER 5: POULTRY

CHAPTER 6: FISH & SHELLFISH

CHAPTER 7: SALADS, SLAWS & VEGETABLE SIDES

CHAPTER 8: SAUCES, SALSAS, SALAD DRESSINGS & SPICE BLENDS

CHAPTER 9: TREATS

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

More than a decade has passed since the publication of my first book, The Paleo Diet®, in
2002. In the ensuing years “Paleo” has become a dietary concept known to the world. It is
especially gratifying to have been involved early on in a nutritional idea that has positively
changed people’s lives throughout the world.

A talented and expert team has worked closely with me to create The Real Paleo Diet®
Cookbook. Many thanks to my editor, Anne Ficklen, without whose insight and dedication
to “Paleo,” this book would not have materialized. Ken Carlson and Lisa Kingsley have
been instrumental in coordinating the efforts of many talented people to produce the
delicious recipes and colorful photos throughout this cookbook. Over the years, my wife,
Lorrie, and my boys (now men) have supported me unconditionally as I wrote about The
Paleo Diet®. I also am indebted to my literary agents, Channa Taub and Carol Mann, for
their enthusiastic support and encouragement over the years. Most of all I want to
acknowledge you, my dedicated Paleo audience, who “get it”.

Thank you,
Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION

When your interest is initially piqued by a new diet or cookbook, it is only natural to want
to discover a bit more about the history of the topic—where it came from, why it currently
exists, and where it may be going. Sometimes we can get up to speed more rapidly on a
topic by starting in the present and going backward in time or, sometimes, vice versa.
When it comes to The Paleo Diet® concept, I not only have the luxury of being able to
personally travel backward in time to its very beginnings, but I am able to move forward
in time to appreciate its current worldwide impact.

For me, The Paleo Diet® concept began on a crisp Colorado fall day in 1987 when I

read a scientific paper by Dr. S. Boyd Eaton called “Paleolithic nutrition: a consideration
of its nature and current implications,” published two years earlier in the prestigious New
England Journal of Medicine. This scientific article represented nothing less than the
defining moment in my career, which set me off on a 30-year quest into what would
become my life’s work. My ensuing scientific and popular writings over the intervening
years (www.thepaleodiet.com) have helped to define a worldwide concept now known as
“The Paleo Diet®,” a term I coined with my first book in 2002 and that was later revised in
2010.

So for those of you who are just starting to wrap your heads around The Paleo Diet®,

let’s fast forward to 2013–2014 and take a look at just how well-known “Paleo” has
become to the general public. On a recent Dr. Oz show devoted entirely to diets, the good
doctor introduced the broadcast by saying that “the number-one Google search of all diets
in 2013 was for The Paleo Diet®.” This show came only a few months after a previous
broadcast in which Dr. Oz featured me and my first book, The Paleo Diet®, which had
become a New York Times best seller and had been translated into more than 20 languages
worldwide.

As you may expect, the global Paleo Diet movement has spawned an explosion of

copycat books over the past several years. Look no further than amazon.com to literally
see the hundreds of diets and cookbooks that manage to shoehorn the word “Paleo” into
their titles.

In a way, all of these books are a good thing because they tend to get more and more

people involved in a lifetime way of eating that may improve health and well-being while
reducing the risk for chronic diseases. The downside of this situation is that many authors
are poorly informed and frequently provide misleading information about food, recipes,
and meals that are not “Paleo” by any stretch of the imagination. Accordingly, one of my
primary goals in writing The Real Paleo Diet® Cookbook is to correct this glut of

misinformation and give you the best and most scientifically accurate facts about which
foods, ingredients, and recipes should be included in your Paleo Diet. But even more
important, with The Real Paleo Diet® Cookbook, you will become privy to an incredible
cornucopia of enticing and delectable foods and recipes designed and fully tested by a top-
notch group of chefs and cooks.