Recipes from the Heart (by Pamela Anderson!)
Recipes from the Heart is a wonderful plant-based recipe book. What makes it different is that it’s by former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, who is now a well-known animal welfare campaigner.
Proving that her heart is as big as her boobs!
Before cooking, read our post on food safety for people and pets.
This collection of recipes that she created for her sons, has turned into a best-selling cookbook. Based around healthy seasonal fresh produce, recipes include:
- Chicory Dandelion Coffee
- Whipped Cranberry Porridge
- Green Goddess Mason Jar Salad
- Tomato Galette
- Anti-Inflammatory Lentil Soup
- Minty Pea Potato Pierogis
Plus homemade bread recipes (keep fresh dough away from children and pets)
- Maple-Glazed Cinnamon Rolls
- Rustic Sourdough Loaves
- Fougasse (French bread) in Herby Pistou
About the Author
Pamela Anderson is known nearly always as playing a swimsuit-clad lifeguard in the popular TV series Baywatch. But in fact, she is so much more than that!
Born in Canada (she’s almost 60 but doesn’t look it!), she is now known for her feisty defence of animals (while Katy Perry is now dating the ex-Canadian premier), when he was first elected, Pamela was writing him public letters, pleading with him to ban the baby seal cull, which he never did.
With a German-Finnish ancestry (she used to speak Finnish – one of the world’s most difficult languages), she is no airhead), she has said she would like to revert back to her proper maiden surname: Hyytiäinen.
Pamela is also a survivor. She was molested by a female babysitter for years as a child, then raped age 12 by a man, and gang-raped by her boyfriend and six friends when she was 14.
She went vegetarian as a teenager, after being upset when her father bought back a bloodied deer he had hunted. She has since gone onto promote the vegan lifestyle, with actress Drew Barrymore writing that this is ‘the most beautiful cookbook I have ever seen’.
Now back living in Canada (where she publicly endorses the Green Party), Pamela is never shy in standing up to power. She even wrote to President Putin to ask him to save the whales, and met with Kremlin officials to discuss animal welfare in Russia (representing IFAW).
And has campaigned to ask French officials to ban foie gras.
Those who dismiss Pamela Anderson as a former swimsuit actress, should compare how much they have done for a kinder world, to her (especially after all she has been through).
