What better way to enjoy the bounty of nature while improving your health than by engaging in your own cooking! We have selected some excellent cookbooks below with a special focus on tasty and healthful ways to prepare grains: Buy Now at Amazon Nourishing Traditions Sally Fallon, Mary G. Enig, PhD The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats Buy Now at Amazon The New Book of Whole Grains Marlene Anne Bumgarner More than 200 recipes featuring whole grains, including amaranth, quinoa, wheat, spelt, oats, rye, barley, and millet. Twelve sections, each devoted to a particular grain--including rye, barley, amaranth, and millet--include nutritional information, tips on buying and storing grain for maximum freshness, a historical perspective on each, and more than two hundred recipes for the various grains. Buy Now at Amazon 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains Andrea Chesman Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and flavorful "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans and grains, like basmati and jasmine rice, adzuki beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organized by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and soul-satisfying foods that stick to your ribs but not to your waistline. Buy Now at Amazon Amazing Grains: Creating Vegetarian Main Dishes With Whole Grains Joanne Saltzman, Jay Harlow (Editor) An excellent book for anyone wanting to become deeply acquainted with the foods that are the primary building blocks of quality cooking. Thorough and well-written, it makes the process of learning and cooking into what it is meant to be - a joy. Buy Now at Amazon Recipes from the Old Mill: Baking with Whole Grains Sarah E. Myers, Mary Beth Lind The authors are sisters who grew up near their family's stream-powered grist mill in West Virginia. Their collection of 170-plus healthful recipes using a variety of whole grains is also a meditation on the staff of life, both organic and spiritual. Five chapters on kinds of grain (Corn, Wheat, Rye, Buckwheat and Multi-Grain) offer selections of grain-specific recipes (e.g., Corn Chips and Roberta's Sourdough Rye loaves). Five more chapters expand on categories like Main Dishes and Desserts. Buy Now at Amazon The 15-Minute Meal Planner: a Realistic Approach to a Healthy Lifestyle Emilie Barnes & Sue Gregg More than 50 quick reading chapters provide a wealth of highly practical ideas on food selection, preparation, and storage--along with a helpful starter-set of easy and tasty recipes using wholesome, natural ingredients. Buy Now at Amazon Whole Grain Cookbook A. D. Livingston Grain truly is the staff of life-tasty, versatile, and highly nutritious. In The Whole Grain Cookbook, A. D. Livingston brings his encyclopedic knowledge of world cuisines to bear on the wonderfully diverse possibilities offered by grains. The Bread Beckers Recipe Collection Sue Becker Whole Food and Whole Grain recipes. Contains Biblical references.