Wednesday, January 14, 2009

You Can Eat Well with Diabetes or How to Cook Everything

You Can Eat Well with Diabetes!

Author: Helen V Fisher

Millions of Americans live with diabetes and face the daily challenge of maintaining a healthy diet. For most people with Type II diabetes (the most common form, which usually develops later in life), eating a well-planned, healthful diet with appropriate calorie level is enough to control the disease. EATING WELL WITH DIABETES makes it easier for diabetics to truly enjoy balanced meals, easing the stress of living with Type II diabetes by making menu planning a breeze via more than 160 easy, delicious, and healthful recipes that the entire family will savor. Using common supermarket ingredients, the recipes include such favorites as Bruschetta, Hamburger Supreme, Mandarin Chicken, Apple-Blackberry Cobbler, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. Each recipe includes nutritional information and exchanges. The clear, informative introduction by registered dietitian Jeanette Egan, with suggestions for designing an exercise program and tips for reading nutritional labels, makes this more than a cookbook—it’s a valuable guide to understanding and living with diabetes.



Book about: Icebox Desserts or Culinary Math

How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food with CDROM

Author: Mark Bittman

This exceptional package of Mark Bittman's award-winning, blockbuster cookbook, How To Cook Everything, plus an interactive CD-ROM of the same name, takes cooking to a whole new level! It is a must-have resource for anyone who wants guidance from the best home cook in America, plus the ability to adapt Bittman's expertise to the cooking needs of their daily lives with the tools offered by a CD-ROM.

Redbook

For a no-stress, low-fuss kitchen bible, it's hard to beat Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food. Its nearly 1,000 pages include crystal-clear instructions for everything from pancakes to pot roast to porcini risotto. How to Cook Everything is the only cookbook you'll ever need.

Publishers Weekly

There's a millennial ring to the title of Bittman's massive opus of more than 1000 basic recipes and variations as the widely known food writer ("The Minimalist" is a weekly column in the New York Times) and author (Fish) contributes to the list of recently published authoritative, encyclopedic cookbooks. He concedes that most accomplished cooks will find little new here, and indeed the recipes can be as simple as how to pop corn. His voice is a comfortable one, however, so the tone is less tutorial than, say, that of the newly revised Joy of Cooking. While much of the ground covered is familiar, Bittman offers inventive fare (Kale Soup with Soy and Lime) and reclaims formerly abandoned territory — his Creamy Vinaigrette calls for heavy cream. Pastas range from Spaghetti and Meatballs to Pad Thai. Similarly, sandwiches include both old favorites and fresh combinations, e.g., Curried Pork Tenderloin Sandwich with Chutney and Arugula. Bittman's friends, he says, praise his Chicken Adobo as the best chicken dish in the world. He doesn't linger too long with beef because Americans are eating less of it; he remarks that a well-done hamburger is not worth eating. Vegetables are comprehensively addressed from Artichokes to Yuca, with attention paid to buying, storing and cooking methods well suited to each. Desserts are mostly homey, like Apple Brown Betty and Peaches with Fresh Blueberry Sauce, but there is also a Death-by-Chocolate Torte. The enormous breadth of recipes, the unusually modest price and Bittman's engaging, straightforward prose will appeal to many cooks looking for reliable help with — or reference to — kitchen fundamentals.

Fast Company - Peter Kaminsky

Everyone has a bible for cooking, a book whose stuck together, gravy-stained pages proclaim that this is the guide that you can use when you're getting serious about cooking. Now I have a new book in my kitchen thats becoming dog-eared and getting dripped on: Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food. His book with more than 1,500 recipes, is both easy to follow and encyclopedic. Plus, the glossary will prove to be a lifesaver when you forget what "salsify" means, or if you don't know the difference between basting and braising.



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