Yeah, I'm afraid that Nourishing Traditions makes me itch. I was just stopped cold by the bit about driving our children to suicide with spaghetti. (Mind you, we have a copy in the house because Sarah liked it-- and Miss B. would happily live on nothing but pasta; so you don't have to believe everything the author sez to like the book.) Also the idea of whey in everything including switchel-- is that for protein or what?