My Research: Bibliography, Part II + Zucchini Pecan Bread

a reflection, a prayer, and a recipe to start your week

I’m not sure if I am excited or terrified to show you all the second portion of this bibliography…the primary resources portion.

Before I share it, I want to reiterate that I spent more than a decade working through and healing from my history of disordered eating before I felt that I could safely dig into many of these texts. Even so, I am still having to stay attuned to my physical and emotional responses as I read through them now. If this is an area of struggle for you, then I might not even recommend reading the titles of the books I’ve collected here.

I am sharing this list with you, though, because I do need your help in building this portion out further! I am sure there are Christian dietary manuals that I still am not aware of that are important to this project. A friend of mine recently made a comment about one book her mom had in the house growing up that she just assumed I must know about given this work—but it was one that had not come across my radar yet!

So, if you were reading Christian diet books in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, or if you were attuned to the health rhetoric of the homeschool movement in the 90s and early aughts (even up to today!) and you have recommendations that are not on this list, please share them with me in the comments.

Unlike last week’s list, I will not be linking to these books for you to purchase. If you really want to purchase them for yourselves, then I highly encourage you to find used copies through AbeBooks or Thrift Books instead of buying new. The only exception to this is the late 19th/early 20th century texts that I am listing, most of which are now in the public domain and can be read for free online. I’ve linked to online reading options for those!