Sprouts: The Miracle Food: The Complete Guide to Sprouting

My Amazon Wishlist has over 500 items, many of them books. I don't get to indulge myself as often as I would like, so when I make a purchase, it's pretty calculated and I only get to pick ONE item. That said, the book of choice has to be pretty special to be selected out of the very many that I am chomping at the bit to have.My books are cherished items. I like to have a good collection and my books are probably my only possessions that I won't part with. I don't care how worn and curled they get because I want to use them - ALOT.I am so on the fence about what to say about this book. It has been on my Wishlist for YEARS. Finally, I added it to the cart with great excitement, and that's where my excitement ended.When I began to read it, I actually found myself so disappointed and almost angry! This was not at all what I was hoping it would be! And, I'm not even sure I want it in my collection. I felt that if it was possible to 'return' a book, this one would be it. I thought, here's one for the yard sale..In all fairness, I can at least appreciate what he has done and the info that he has compiled in his book, regardless of the fact that it was not really where I was wanting to go with it; not what I had hoped.In fact, I got so overwhelmed and confused that I shelved sprouting at all and will think about it next week..For me, personally, I just want to grow some sprouts..a little at a time. I don't want baskets all over the place or racks or some indoor farm. When I have gone on [...] and/or checked out their videos on YouTube, it has served me perfectly for my needs and what I'm looking for right now.This is one occasion where I can say..I don't know folks..you might feel differently. Can't say I do or do not recommend.PS. Slightly off topic..but only because I wanted to voice a pet peeve..IF (in particular) you are a 'somebody', a person who has made a name for yourself, PLEASE, please, please have a website that is actually worth a darn. [...] website is so poorly functional; it times out, takes forever to load or has messed up my computer all too much. It's a terrible website.If you care enough to be in business, by all means, your website is key.Oftentimes, I can order something from a company but because their website is lacking, I will order from Amazon instead (hopefully from the same company!).I purchase most everything from/through Amazon (for many reasons!), but if Amazon's website frustrated me in the least, that reason alone would not get my business.

lots of good info haven't finished reading yet stop and start as i try out info

She loves the material and is making notes and making plans ... !

This is a great book for a person who is interested in sprouting; it is very detailed and is truly full of very interesting and useful information. The book also helps to nullify a lot of the myth about toxins and hidden dangers in sprouts. The real dangers, in actuality, exist in cooked, processed, adulterated, toyed-with, sprayed, chemicalized, distorted foods (which our grocery shelves are full of). I am now 50 years old. Back in my youthful college days, I used to sprout a great deal, eating living foods exclusively. Though I stayed being a vegetarian, I got back into the cooked food craze... eating food like it was a drug for "taste" only. I work with the multiply handicapped and even though I am a teacher I have to do a lot of lifting (of adults who are not at all feather-weight). My arthritis (which runs in the family) was killing me, despite taking all kinds of natural and man made supplements. Getting back to live food was the answer I needed. Steve's book was inspirational and very helpful. I should have never deviated from what was truly the most nutritious way to eat! There are many ways of sprouting. I happen to like the sproutpeople.com sprouters best of all. Steve's book is a priceless tool for anyone interested in sprouting... it has all kinds of neat tips and suggestions. Also, one suggests doing a web search on Dr. Budwig's Diet... as most people are seriously deficient in essential fatty acids of the proper type. I take my oil with a little bit of live yogurt. Anyway... I would not want Steve's book, including his Kitchen Garden book... missing from my shelves! As Hippocrates said: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."

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For anyone interested in self preservation through healthy eating, this is the book for you. I'm delighted to know that a person can live and especially thrive on sprouts. Equally exciting was the history I discovered in this book about Quinoa (and even how to pronounce it - keen-wa) and the science behind why some sprouts are beneficial for preventing certain diseases. Steve also brings to light some fungicides and pesticides used in commercial agriculture... and as you probably guessed they aren't good for you.Steve does a great job telling you what's what about sprouts including how to grow them, what you need to know about different seeds, why to eat them, what some nutritional values looked like, and he even provided a growth and harvest chart that I found useful. His personal experience with healing is inspiring but you won't read about that in here; this book's purpose is to quickly educate you and get you farming your own sprouts... now.My wife and kids are traditional eaters, but they sure did enjoy watching me grow the sprouts and then sampling them with me. After reading the book, growing them was easy and it's actually inexpensive. The flavor was wonderful. If you haven't tasted organic sprouts you haven't tasted true flavor.If you're thinking about growing your own, there is something about it I think everyone should experience and Steve's book will get you off to a successful start.

Excelente producto, muy útil para mis clases ya que soy profesor de nivel universitario y con materias variadas.Sus contenidos son claros y la versión digital es súper útil pues lo puedes leer justo en el tamaño de letra que más fácil se acomode a tus necesidades.Excelente para profesores universitarios y amantes de la buena lectura.

I bought this book because all but one of the references to soya sprouts in the Edward Cairney alternative, The Sprouters Handbook, had been removed. (Actually, to me it looked as though they'd been ineffectively weeded out, because the index still had them). I'm grateful to Steve Meyerowitz for his advice to cook soyabean sprouts lightly to remove any residual nasties, however, I much prefer the Cairney book because Meyerwitz's is a bit of a hotchpotch.On the good side, it has a good index as well as a detailed contents list. On the bad, like the Cairney, it glosses over how to germinate economically in cooler weather and calls for items, such as hydrogen peroxide, for use as a sterilent, which I think is unobtainable in the UK now, because it's been used in improvised bomb-making. It's looks as though we can buy sproutbags, an invention of Meyerwitz, but I just wouldn't because I do not believe they could be adequately cleaned. His other innovation, the sprouter's bamboo basket, isn't even still available on his US Website because the supply from China has become unreliable. Again, attractive as these things look, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. It's glass and nice sterile stainless steel for me, but at the moment, I'm using Meyerwitz's despised jars (Bio Snacky), which I find can be incubated easily (See my review of The Sprouters Handbook) and work a treat for everything I've tried so far except soyabean. I've even pulled off amaranth, a tiny seed (a) by soaking overnight, or (b) by inserting kitchen towel between the jar and the lid-strainer.I've given Meyerwitz 3 stars because his book contains stimulating ideas. The tables are random rather than scientifically organised, though the their content may be accurate. He advocates a longer growing time than some and there must be a breaking point when a sprout, using the resources from its seed and turning them into great nutrients for us, becomes a plant, requiring resources from soil. He muddles seed leaves, which are the seed itself pushed up and turning green, with true leaves, which form independently of the seed. Some seeds, such as aduki beans and lentils, don't form seed leaves at all, their first leaves are true leaves. With alfalfa and mung, it's the other way round.As I say, a hotchpotch with good ideas, but for a beginner, I'd advise buying a set, say of 3, Bio Snacky jars (thank you, Amazon) and following the advice given in the leaflet that comes with them. Start with seeds, such as mung and aduki bean and green lentils that are readily and cheaply available in your supermarket. That's another thing with Meyerowitz, if you sprout seeds, such as cabbage and radish that are normally sold in tiny packets for producing the mature vegetable, your sprouts will cost you a fortune!

This book has really expanded my sprouting knowledge and my view of using sprouts for good health. It is packed full of information and innovative ways for improving health as well as how to use baskets and bags for sprouting to produce better sprouts than ever before. A must for anyone who wants to eat the natural way. I love it. An excellent and practical reference book.

Very thorough with every element covered from sprouting, wheatgrass and microgreens. A very enjoyable read with lots of valuable information about starting a kitchen garden. Very well laid out book and easy to understand.

very comprehensive, easy to follow & useful. I have grown my confidence along with my spouts because of the scope of this book.