The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet is broad in scope, deep in knowledge, and essential in today’s nutritional landscape. Written by Monica Corrado, MA, CNC, CGP, it is now available in a revised and expanded second edition.

This book includes more information, more recommendations, more tips and tweaks, and more clarifications on how to implement the GAPS (Gut and Psychology and Gut and Physiology Syndrome™) Nutritional Protocol from The GAPS Chef© herself.  

Developed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride (Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, ADD, Dyslexia, ADHD, Depression, Schizophrenia), GAPS is a groundbreaking way of treating disorders in the gut that are linked to a range of medical conditions that have baffled doctors for years – using food. GAPS is complicated and can be challenging to implement. This is the guide on how to do GAPS—not just the foods you eat, but when, how, and why you eat them.

The Complete Cooking Techniques is a compilation of Monica’s original Cooking Techniques series. All four of her original books are included, which teach the cooking techniques that are the pillars of GAPS:

• Meat Stock and Bone Broth. Learn the difference between meat stock and traditional stock (aka, “bone broth”), and why you don’t want to mix them up. Learn how, which, and when.
• Culturing Dairy. Techniques for preparing yogurt, kefir, cultured cream, butter, and more. Learn how making these foods “GAPS-style” means even those with dairy sensitivities and allergies can learn how to incorporate cultured dairy into their diet. (Includes the Dairy Introduction Structure.)
• Lacto-Fermentation. Multiple ways to lacto-ferment tonics, vegetables, and fruits. Lacto-ferments are powerful foods that can help to address the current epidemic of abnormal gut flora today.
• Seeds (Nuts, Seeds, Beans, and Grains). Traditional techniques such as soaking, sprouting, and fermenting can unlock the immense nutritional power hidden away in nuts and seeds, and “neutralize” the anti-nutrients in all of them.

This second edition includes how to transition to what Monica calls the “Well Diet”- the Weston A. Price/Nourishing Traditions diet, what she calls “life after GAPS”. She also answers common GAPS questions (FAQs), a Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion table for international readers, and a list of ingredients and equipment that you need to start the protocol. There is also an index that helps you put your finger right on the page you need.

This print edition comes in a wire-bound hardcover that lays flat on the counter as you cook.

Note: all the techniques in this book are traditional cooking techniques and will benefit everyone who uses them. You don’t have to be on the GAPS diet to learn to cook from this book!

As the required text on GAPS cooking techniques for those enrolled in Dr. Campbell McBride’s Certified GAPS Practitioner and Certified GAPS Coach training programs, it is the textbook for those who teach GAPS and GAPS-ters alike. Currently being translated into several languages worldwide.