In 1999, during a (not yet to be repeated) lull at work, I began organizing recipes from the SCD mailing lists and posting them online at scdrecipe dot com. Over the past few years, many people have contributed to the website. In addition, many have requested the recipes in print format. In answer to those requests, this collection began as a simple effort to re-format/transfer the on-line recipes into a printed book. However, I soon found myself gathering, testing, and writing down recipes from family and friends who had prepared meals for the diet. There were so many recipes that only twenty from the website are included in this volume. The other recipes range from meals created by my mother-in-law during our trips to her home in Bombay (Mumbai), India; to dishes created after spending afternoons with my grandmother and her sister, both in their 80's, who still meet once a week to cook.