- Introduction to the Joy of Eating
- All living creatures need nourishment
- In the beginning, or the first few years of life
- Into the School Years
- The Teen Years - Growing by Leaps and Bounds!
- Into Adulthood, or Mom''''s Not in the Kitchen Anymore!
- Other Important Issues or We Don''t Survive on Food Alone!
- About the Author
- Note
- Assessing Your Child's Health-Related Physical Fitness
- Health Promotion for People with Physical, Cognitive and Sensory Disabilities: An Emerging National Priority
- Food and Your Mood: Nutrition and Mental Health
- The Importance of Men's Health
- Rehab and Community Physical Activity - When and Where Shall the Two Meet?
- Working from the Bottom Up: A Review of Evidence-Based Food Guide Pyramids
- What I Have Learned this Month: Do You Know What You Just Ate?
- Exercise Intervention Research on Persons with Disabilities
- Without Health Promotion, the Health Care System Will Remain Broken for People with Disabilities
- Congratulations Mr. President!
- Nutrition for Healthy Aging
- Managing Your Environment
- Inspiration and Wellness: Completing the Mosaics
- The Disabled Poor* Need a Healthier Community to Return to in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
- Alzheimer's Disease and Nutrition
- The Right to Fitness
- Environmental Disability
- Environmental Disability
- The Tipping Point
- What the Late Marlon Brando Can Teach Us About Health Promotion
- Setting Goals and Sticking with Them
- Newspaper Misses Mark in Health Club Feature
- Choosing a Fitness Center
- F.I.T.T.: Move More in May, Ladies!
- Managed Care and Rehabilitation
- President's Proposed Drug Relief Plan Must Include Relief from America's Worst Ailment: Physical Inactivity
- The Winds of Change in Disability and Health
- Race, Poverty, and Disability: Three Pillars of Need in Health Promotion
- Children with Disabilities and Obesity
- Wellness Programming for Independent Living Centers
Imagination, inspiration, and even best-selling cookbooks can arise from adversity. In 1931, Irma Rombauer, a widow looking for a means to support her family, decided to create a cookbook of her personal collection of recipes. To date, more than 15 million copies of her original The Joy of Cooking: a Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat have been sold.
In his November, 2002 Director's Corner Column, Dr. James Rimmer discussed the difficulties in getting straightforward and sound advice about various disabilities and nutrition. He is certainly correct. In Mrs. Rombauer's day, there was a shortage of simple, straightforward information on how to prepare an exquisite meal. Today, not only in text but also on the Internet, we have an explosion of information related to diet, nutrition, food supplements, vitamins, minerals, cooking, etc.
So what I would like to offer in this monograph is not so much advice about what people with various disabilities and chronic health conditions should eat, but rather introduce some practical guidelines, in the form of Mrs. Rombauer's chats, which can make the eating experience more joyful and meaningful to one's overall well being. Who knows - we might start a compilation of practical suggestions from NCHPAD readers to be edited into a new "Joy of . . ." book!
Irma Rombauer's book The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat can be located on the Books for Cooks website (Books for Cooks Link)
