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Testimonials for Modern Introduction To Hemp “A must read for all who love hemp and care for their health and well-being. Most excellent information on nutrition is included. Kudos for this work - an inspiration!” "Paul Benhaim is a true leader in the hemp industry. Read and learn from this amazing young man." Cynthia Thielen, Assistant Republican Floor Leader in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Ranking Member on Judiciary Committee and on Energy and Environmental Protection Committee. "Paul Benhaim is one of those remarkable people who not only understands the unique characteristics and wonderful benefits of hempseed foods but also sees how they fit into a broad spectrum of nutritional resources. I share this vision of weaving hemp back into the tapestry of healthy foods." "If you are serious about profoundly improving your lifestyle by learning to prepare simple yet very tasty meals, read this book! It is a clear, concise, entertaining and informative guide to greater health, and living with a smaller ecological footprint.” "Paul Benhaim's delicious invention, the '9 Bar' was Europe's first successful hemp food product. He catapulted this success into an expanding global force for hemp foods. Paul demonstrates the capability of Hemp foods to improve skin and hair condition, enhance the immune and circulatory systems and many other benefits you will read about in this book. Thanks for supporting hemp!" In relation to A Modern Introduction To Hemp and Living Foods Recipes David writes:
About the Author Paul Benhaim is published author of H.EM.P., Healthy Eating Made Possible and Living Food Recipes Other books by the Author include: H.E.M.P.- Healthy Eating Made Possible Living Food Recipes Living Food- Loving Life
H.E.M.P.- BOOK REVIEWS Times Newspaper Group Marvellous. Five stars.
Vegan News, December 2000
Dr. Sumachs Review H.E.M.P. is actually two books in one - a duality personified as the Ying yang cover graphic suggests. Author Paul Benhaim, a founding partner of MotherHemp Inc, Britain's foremost cannabis corporation, has prepared a wonky Zen philosophical supreme court defence case for veganism, and of course, hemp food, nature's wonderfuel. It's all about Food, and we're talking organic food -- that body-mind-spirit stuff that affects our way of life, and as the author alerts us, has the potential to heal our minds. "My slant on the hemp lifestyle," he says in the introduction " is with new technologies and how they relate to ancient methods of cooking and healing.... to look at what seems to have lasted generations, not just years or months." "Many of my ideas and recipes contained within have been developed by my studies of ancient tribes and aborigines far removed from modern civilisation who never use aspirin, anti-acid tablets, a toothbrush or regular stimulants." "It is now time to slow down and watch what is happening to us as a society where mass change in consciousness is occurring." Mr. Benhaim, 33, is a laid back aggressive nutritional missionary preaching the benefits of natural food to his grease and spud munching island nation. According to an article in a mainstream British publication, he aspires to become the UK's first hemp millionaire. To do so he slugs it out 18 hrs a day to promote hemp food on the Internet. Who ever said the future was going to be any easier than the past? The generation coming into strength can't go back to the land, can't afford to play the farmer like their hippy dippy parents. Cities did not go away. The new people are committed to the urban circuit en perpetua. It's life under glass for millions -- the quality of air we breathe and the water we drink is questionable -- the last hope to maintain the warm cuddle of nature is to eat decent food. People are dead serious about living again. Edible Hemp almost doesn't make an appearance in the first half of the book. We get a recap of the orthodox hemp conspiracy theory ... zzzz ... hemp 101 for fibre, fuel, paper, and plastic parlez view -- and a cook's tour of holistic curiosities harking blunt yes -- no assessments of food combining, avoiding sugars, salt, processed food and cheap oils -- it's new, it's old, it's always a good idea to cut back on crap. A chapter saluting Naturecure -- attention to air, food, hygiene, sunshine and exercise traces its origins to an insightful 1930's British dentist who noted that Third World people had equally as good dental and mental health as the developed nations... It is all connected we learn, and its slow going getting to the hemp part -- it's a bit of a jog to graduate from DIY organic boot camp. Living forever takes a bit of practise. Some of the vignettes of hemp history seem a little fuzzy -- 3600 BC Egyptian papyrus mentioning Cannabis sativa is exaggerated by a few millennia, I am not aware of any Egyptian records citing cannabis, and myself and others have looked pretty hard -- "Calamus" in the King James Bible pointed to as a mistranslation of "cannabis" is perhaps second hand fanciful dope cloaking for an aromatic marsh plant common in many wetland regions of the world. It is a bit much somewhat pushing it, IMHO, overpainting a perfume fixative plant with mystical applications and blaming it on bad spelling by otherwise wise ancients. Life after spell check still requires logical skills. There is feasting, there is fasting, lunch in Heaven everlasting. Blessed THC is the least of our worries now. We are reminded there is an enzyme jungle out there before we get to the piranha pool of micronutrients, After being lead like lambs into the celestial cafeteria we are finally ready for part two -- thoughtful hemp recipes delivered with a fierce Zen zeal for the organic aesthetic. Part Two of H.E.M.P. alone is worth the price of the book - Mr Benhaim has collected some very intelligent hemp food recipes and curiously, some smashingly good hemp soap formulas, hempen how to's for condiments and edible do dahs. Looking for elementary hemp food compounding ideas? This is a brilliant collection to start with, just about all any organic chef wanting to introduce hempism to a small natural food restaurant, or someone with a big holistic family to feed, would ever need to star. Smoothies, soups, breads, side dishes, sauces, spreads main dishes, desserts and sweets. That's a generous assortment right there. Some familiar standards, some rather new things and a few completely outrageous ideas. Some of these recipes are going to take a bit of bravery to attempt -- Beet flavoured hemp Halva I am not rushing to whip up no matter how bloody healthy it may be, seems like a Saturday Night Live Skit -- there may be leftovers-- but you'll never have to worry about " Mad Cow Disease.. However this may just be a transitional UK culinary cultural item to take the place of such time honoured UK dinner dishes as "Neeps and Bangers, Toad in the Hole and Kippers..." We colonials are not very sophisticated we must admit. We would have liked to have seen better use of the hulled hempseed in more of the recipes. It appears that this premium hemp raw material is not as well known in the UK as it is in North America -- or perhaps it is too expensive there for such generous rations as we are accustomed to in Voltaire's " few acres of snow. Here in Canada, home of the modern New World hemp industry, we are blessed with the best raw materials for hemp cuisine in easy legal abundance, and at reasonable prices. However our nation of fur trappers and buffalo biters has yet to produce a decent cookbook explaining how to use and enjoy our hempen bounty.... It is curious if not pathetic that our hemp client nations, the United States and Great Britain have both created exceptionally fine hempseed cookbooks to make best use of our hemp. We have strayed across the line of ignorance and into the broad vistas of stupidity. It will be difficult for anyone to better Mr. Benhaim's hemp lifestyle/cookbook in the foreseeable future. He will continue to be champion of English language hemp cookery literature until somebody gets off their ass and works harder and smarter than he did. Only the brave deserve the fair, the rest of us get hamburger... review as first appeared in HEMPREPORT courtesy of the author, Dr Sumach, Director of THE HEMP FUTURES STUDY GROUP in Ontario Canada.
Vegan Consumer H.E.M.P. Healthy Eating Made Possible, by Paul Benhaim (Fusion Press, 2000). Healthy Eating Made Possible is more than just another cook book. It's a book which offers us an alternative way of living. In H.E.M.P. Paul Benhaim shows us how, by making more use of the hemp plant, we can live a much simpler, more positive and sustainable lifestyle. The author has thoroughly researched the background, the nutritional facts and the many uses of hemp, but the book's main emphasis is on using hemp as a source of food. About a third of the book is devoted to delicious hemp recipes, many of which are vegan. There are basic recipes for hemp milk, bread, pesto, butter, cheese and yogurt. But you will also find out how to use hemp seeds and hemp oil in your salad dressings, smoothies, soups and juices. Plus there are exotic starters, main courses, sauces/spreads and desserts. Quite a few of the recipes are raw and throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on the living foods lifestyle, including chapters on juicing, fasting, food combining, holistic health and naturecure. At the back of the book there's an excellent resource section, listing suppliers of hemp products, both in the UK and worldwide.
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