- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Rodale Books (April 14 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0875969194
- ISBN-13: 978-0875969190
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 19.8 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 953 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (140 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #698,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Imus founded the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, a program that aims to identify, control and ultimately prevent environmental factors that cause adult and, especially, pediatric cancer. She rounds out this collection of basic vegetarian fare with a lengthy essay about life on the Santa Fe, N.Mex. ranch where she and her husband, radio personality Don Imus, practice "healthy living and healthy cooking" and teach self-reliance and horsemanship to kids who have "known too much sickness and too much death." Imus's diet is "organic, whole-food, ovo vegetarian, meaning that we don't eat dairy or animal products, but we do eat eggs," and she explains it with a rundown of the ranch's organic "vegan pantry." The informal recipes focus on basics like Orange Poppy Seed Muffins and Cowboy Potato Chowder, and fast sandwiches like I-Man Chimichangas. Dinner selections feature nostalgic favorites such as Spanish Rice updated with brown rice and olive oil, and Imus cleans up desserts (including Carrot Cake and Jeannie's All Out Brownies) by substituting unbleached flour and unrefined sugar. In addition to healthy lifestyle prescriptives and thank-you notes from some of the camp's young alumni, Imus includes sidebars on topics ranging from non-toxic head lice remedies to green cleaning agents to the dangers of PVC in children's toys. She ends this informative book with a complete nine-day menu, spanning the average duration of Imus Ranch guests.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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"Kids come from all over to the Imus Ranch. Some are cancer survivors. Some are still battling cancer. Some have life- threatening blood disorders, and some have lost a brother or sister to sudden infant death syndrome. You might imagine there would be a lot of sadness here, but there isn't. We welcome kids who have known too much sickness and too much death, and we give them something they urgently need: a sense of independence and purpose through healthy, vigorous living." --From "A Day at the Ranch"
To some, a vegan cattle ranch may seem a contradiction in terms--but then so would a place where desperately ill children discover their true strength by learning to ride horses and rope calves. Welcome to the Imus Ranch, 4,000 unspoiled acres set in rolling hills and mesa country 50 miles east of Santa Fe. Here good food and clean living set the stage for life-changing events.
Children who visit the Imus Ranch work alongside authentic western ranch hands; they gain a firsthand insight into life as an American cowboy. The experience refuels their bodies and their spirits, in large part because every aspect of the environment is as nontoxic as possible--from the vegan food served at mealtime in the hacienda to the paint on the walls in the barns. The children leave stronger than when they came, with a sense of accomplishment and pride in their new abilities.
In The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys, Deirdre Imus shares more than 125 recipes from the unique place that she and her husband, Don Imus, created. The dishes, from Butch's Blueberry Pancakes, Cowboy Sloppy Joes, and Buffalo Red Chili Enchiladas to Chicken-Less Pot Pie, Imus Ranch Barbecue, Walnut Chocolate-Chip Cookies, and Arborio Sweet Rice Pudding, are guaranteed to please the whole family. As Deirdre says, if kids and cowboys will eat it, it has to be good!
Packed with full-color photography that reflects the warmth and vitality of the Ranch, actual letters from the children who have visited, and a helpful pantry section, this book will enable us all to live a simpler, healthier lifestyle--one meal at a time.
100% of author revenues from this book go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer
To some, a vegan cattle ranch may seem a contradiction in terms--but then so would a place where desperately ill children discover their true strength by learning to ride horses and rope calves. Welcome to the Imus Ranch, 4,000 unspoiled acres set in rolling hills and mesa country 50 miles east of Santa Fe. Here good food and clean living set the stage for life-changing events.
Children who visit the Imus Ranch work alongside authentic western ranch hands; they gain a firsthand insight into life as an American cowboy. The experience refuels their bodies and their spirits, in large part because every aspect of the environment is as nontoxic as possible--from the vegan food served at mealtime in the hacienda to the paint on the walls in the barns. The children leave stronger than when they came, with a sense of accomplishment and pride in their new abilities.
In The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys, Deirdre Imus shares more than 125 recipes from the unique place that she and her husband, Don Imus, created. The dishes, from Butch's Blueberry Pancakes, Cowboy Sloppy Joes, and Buffalo Red Chili Enchiladas to Chicken-Less Pot Pie, Imus Ranch Barbecue, Walnut Chocolate-Chip Cookies, and Arborio Sweet Rice Pudding, are guaranteed to please the whole family. As Deirdre says, if kids and cowboys will eat it, it has to be good!
Packed with full-color photography that reflects the warmth and vitality of the Ranch, actual letters from the children who have visited, and a helpful pantry section, this book will enable us all to live a simpler, healthier lifestyle--one meal at a time.
100% of author revenues from this book go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great cookbook too bad the recipes aren't Deirdres!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys (Hardcover)
I give this cookbook 5 stars because the recipes belong to Chef Ron of Las Vegas New Mexico! No, sorry I am not a Howard Stern fan just a girl who would have liked for Chef Ron to have been given credit for his work. So I guess I am a Chef Ron fan along with all the people who visited the ranch and loved his food! Did Deirdre ever cook them a meal while they visited the ranch? No!! So how can she say that these are her recipes? These are the recipes that Chef Ron cooked for the wonderful kids at the ranch and some of them even appeared on his menu from his former restaurant! As some of the other reviewers mentioned this has nothing to do with being a fan of Howard's and a hater of Don's, it has to do with principle!! The fact is that Deirdre fired Chef Ron when she realized that Chef Ron had some fans on the ranch! How egotistical is that!? My goodness the kid's really liked Chef Ron as well as the parents, so all she did was deprive them of a wonderful relationship with this man!! The book is great and the pictures are great but Deirdre took someones else's pride and called it her own!
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT Cookbook with GREAT Information for Organic Living,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys (Hardcover)
I have seen the negative reviews for this book on this site and I have to say something else is going on here. These people must be Howard Stern fans and just think they have to destroy anything Don Imus is involved in. I mean can a Cookbook really incite these kind of hateful comments? Give me a break. This book is wonderful. The recipe's are all vegetarian, actually ovo-vegan (No Dairy but does eat eggs) and I have tried several of them so far and they are wonderful. There is also a summary at the beginning of the book of products used that alot of people will not be familiar with and the pictures throughout the book are absolutely wonderful. All the proceeds of the book go to the Imus Ranch. After reading many of the stories in the cookbook from the kids who have stayed there (who are quite often terminally ill and/or fighting other tremendous obstacles) they seem so excited because they are taught all about hard work on the ranch, and the importance of healthy eating and living in a healthy environment - the ranch is completely organic and chemical free. The expereince sounds wonderful and appears to be very, very positvie for the kids who participate. The recipes are GREAT and being that the proceeds go to such a wonderful cause I think overall this will become one of my favorite cookbooks and I plan to use it time and time again.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys,
By Tom "dorsher" (Martinez, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys (Hardcover)
This is absolutly a great book, those with eating disorders or health issues involving cloging of the artertys and a host of other infermities would do well to read this book and try the meals inside. This book needs to be expanded, and in my opinion should be handed out by the HMO's to new members, looking forward to the next book on this subject by Deirdre Imus.
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