109 kitchen arguments, settled by an Adventist grandmother in Loma Linda
Butter or olive oil. Canned beans or dry. The box in the freezer aisle, or the loaf you bake for two dollars. You've heard both sides your whole life, dear. Nobody ever told you which way the kitchens in Loma Linda went, or what it costs. This book does, 109 times.
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Soak or no soak, salt first or last, rinse the rice or don't. The rule you were taught came off a label or a magazine, not from you. Every one of those gets a straight answer here.
I can't give you her pot. I can tell you why yours never came out like hers, and how to fix it.
Every verdict gives the price per serving of both sides: a half cup of beans, a slice of loaf, a bowl of oats.
There's a whole chapter on it, and a weekly plan for it: cook once, eat four nights, freeze the rest in single portions.
Nobody at my table is on a diet. There's no pill in here, no protocol and no shopping list of powders. Beans, grains, vegetables and an ordinary grocery store.
You don't have to be Adventist to use this book, and you don't have to give up meat or coffee. Those habits are on trial too, with the honest case for your side.
Both sides get a fair hearing, then a price, then the ruling. These are the book's real rulings.
The ruling: Dry, cooked in one big pot on Friday. Three times the beans for the same money, and the broth comes free.
"There's no shame in a Tuesday can."
The ruling: The base. It gives back the smoke, the salt, the fat and the body, and you choose how much of each.
"If you eat meat and that's the pot you love, it's your pot."
The ruling: The loaf. A fifth of the price, a whole week of suppers, and you choose what goes in it.
"Keep one box in the freezer for the night nothing else will do."
Prices as the book gives them: canned and dry pintos from Walmart.com store brand, 29 September 2026. "(est.)" marks Edna's estimate.
Ten parts, 45 chapters, and a Workbook. Every chapter works the same way: a scene from the kitchen, the numbered verdicts with a recipe for each winner, one skill step by step, three common mistakes, and every source.
What Adventist kitchens actually eat, and a pantry of jars with shelf lives.
Can or bag, soak or not, when the salt goes in, flavor without the ham hock, which bean, and one pot into the week.
Brown rice that isn't gluey, cooked-rice safety, barley and bulgur, oven fries, the $2 whole wheat loaf, zwieback.
Big breakfast or big supper, oats three ways, the box or the pot, eggs or a tofu scramble.
Butter or olive oil, oil or none, which nut for the money, milk and cheese.
Wheat gluten "steaks," tofu, soy milk from the bean, the loaves, patties, gravy and chicken-style seasoning.
Veggie burgers, granola, canned soup, salad dressing, protein bars, hummus and seasoning packets.
Boil or roast, fresh or frozen, bagged greens, tomatoes, onions and garlic.
The Friday cook-ahead, a lunch that holds itself, haystacks for a crowd, cooking for one, the freezer.
Coffee, meat, two meals and no snacks, and the sanitarium where corn flakes were born.
Large type, one column, and a price on everything.
Pages 31 and 38: Verdict 4, and what a half cup costs
Start with Part II, the beans. One verdict a week is plenty.
The Workbook, cards and indexes are pages of the book, not bonuses with prices made up for them. There is one price.
On October 31, 2026 the price goes up to $96, its regular price, and stays there. There's no countdown clock on this page, and there won't be a second launch.
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No made-up savings. These are the book's own prices, per serving.
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Every price in the book is a named average or a marked estimate: the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the USDA, or Walmart.com with the date, or Edna's estimate, marked "(est.)". Your store will differ, and the cost worksheets help you work out your own.
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I've cooked in Loma Linda, California, most of my life. Researchers at Loma Linda University have studied the people of my church, the Seventh-day Adventists, for decades. So visitors come expecting a secret, and they find beans.
We just settled the everyday kitchen arguments a long time ago, and got on with cooking. This book is those arguments, one at a time: both sides, what each costs, what the research found when it found anything, and how my kitchen rules.
It isn't a diet, and it isn't a promise. I can't promise you a longer life or a smaller dress size, and neither can anybody else who's being honest with you. I was never a nurse or a doctor or a dietitian. I'm a cook who reads what the researchers publish, and I name every one of them.
And it isn't a sermon. The Friday cooking and the Sabbath table are part of my kitchen, and you'll see them. You don't have to share my faith to cook like us.
Now go put the pot on.
Edna
Edna is the storyteller of the Edna Cooks channel. Her kitchen and her memories are a way of telling; the research, figures and sources in this book are real and named.
No. It's a PDF you download straight after checkout, 456 pages on US Letter paper. Read it on a tablet or computer, or print it at home or at a print shop. The worksheets, cards and plans are meant to be printed, as many copies as you like for your own kitchen.
Yes. The body text is 14-point type in one wide column, with plenty of space. On a tablet you can zoom in further. On a phone it works, but you'll be zooming; it reads best printed or on a tablet.
No. Adventist culture is the book's frame: the Friday cooking, the Sabbath table, the potluck haystacks. But it's written for anyone's kitchen. Many Adventists eat meat and drink coffee too. Those habits get a fair trial, and you're allowed to keep yours.
No. There's no plan to lose weight and no promise about your health. It settles everyday kitchen arguments on price, flavor and what published research found, and it says plainly when the research found nothing. If you take medication or manage a health condition, talk to your doctor before you change how you eat.
They're ordinary: beans, grains, vegetables, eggs and dairy from an ordinary grocery store, in ordinary American measures. Times and yields are approximate and follow standard methods. Food-safety temperatures are exact.
Bits of it are, scattered and argued over. Here it's 109 arguments settled in one place, each with the price of both sides, the sources named, and a recipe for the winner.
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109 arguments settled, with the price of both sides and a recipe for every winner.
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