Back to what really nourishes - real food

About the book
This book combines centuries-old food processing techniques with modern culture and healthy enjoyment. The traditional diet brings back the ancient knowledge of our ancestors - a diet based on seasonal, seasonal and regional availability. Readers will learn all the basics of making their own food: from wholesome breads with natural sourdough and probiotic dairy products to healing meat broths, ferments and much more.

The book "The new traditional diet" is an all-round reference work on the most important nutritional topics. In many detailed knowledge chapters, readers learn the difference between real food and industrial products and are provided with suitable, family-friendly recipes that are suitable for everyday use and are bowel and tooth-friendly. In the bonus chapter, special attention is paid to children's nutrition, chalky teeth and tooth decay.

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"While the food industry uses mass-produced goods and cheap substitute products from the laboratory to make us believe that we are healthy and well, more and more people are realizing that we are moving further and further away from what is natural and genuine. We don't need convenience products, meat substitutes, dairy substitutes, "gluten-free" and "sugar-free" to be healthy. We want to go back to real food, to food that really nourishes us. And we want to remember a time when food was still medicine. Preserving traditional knowledge and learning the sensual, practical experience of making food yourself - real culinary art - and interpreting it in a contemporary way, that's what we call it: The new traditional diet." Esma & Heidi


What impact do processed foods have on our health? What is real food and how do we really nourish our bodies?

These and many other questions are addressed by authors Heidi Beeck and Esma Storck in their first book, a comprehensive learning and cookbook focusing on holistic gut and dental health. They highlight the urgency of a diet that places particular emphasis on quality, naturalness and wholesomeness as well as the "nose-to-tail" principle (whole animal use) and traditional processing methods. This book combines centuries-old food processing techniques with modern cuisine and healthy enjoyment. Readers will learn all the basics of home cooking: from wholesome breads with natural sourdough and probiotic dairy products to healing meat broths, ferments and much more. At the heart of the book, Esma and Heidi reveal their "10 traditional superfoods", which form the basis of their best instructions and everyday and family-friendly recipes


About the authors

Esma Storck
As the mother of a 3-year-old boy, Esma set out many years ago in search of the "perfect" diet and quickly landed on an exclusively plant-based diet. However, when her fully breastfed baby was diagnosed with tooth decay at just 10 months old, Esma spent days and nights searching for the real reasons. But no doctor could give her a solution to this ever-growing phenomenon (enamel defects and tooth decay in infants). Except for the American dentist Dr. Weston A. Price, who saw most western civilization diseases as a consequence of our modern lifestyle and diet. Esma knew one thing: if you can heal with nutrition, then she will succeed. And so she decided to return to animal-based foods. This time, however, it was undogmatic, ethical, species-appropriate and with deepest gratitude. Just six months later, Esma was able to halt the incipient decay of her son's milk teeth.


Heidi Beeck
Heidi's constant striving for health and a slim figure led her to do a lot of mischief with her body at a very young age and she threw herself into numerous self-experiments and diets. At some point she realized that there was no point in excluding entire food categories. Instead, she began to take a close look at her diet and finally found what made the difference: natural, original food - real food! Her love of traditional cooking changed everything and her fascination became a passion. Today, Heidi is aware of the power of traditional foods, as her health successes suggest that they are the key to strong teeth, healthy gut flora, energy and well-being.