Marlene Anne Bumgarner is a teacher, a writer, and a mother. With the publication of Organic Cooking for (not-so-organic) Mothers she responds to the pleas of parent everywhere to translate natural foods jargon into tangible suggestions for meal preparation.
Marlene has addressed herself to the needs of mothers before, as a parent educator, childbirth instructor and La Leche League Leader. She has owned and operated a natural food store, taught elementary school, and homesteaded five acres of rural land with her husband and two children. Well-schooled in the practical arts, Marlene has written a book rich in how to’s and recipes that take the mystery out of natural foods but don’t rely on expensive or hard-to-find ingredients. Spiral bound, the book lies flat so recipes can be easily read. An e-book is also on the way.
Excerpt: Small children are notoriously fidgety eaters, and mine are no different. Like me when I was five, they don’t want to sit still long enough to get a decent meal. Having found that attempts to make them remain at the table through an entire mealtime usually resulted in bad tempers and food on the floor . . . (See page 47 for the solution.)
