April 2012 | Cranberry Juice Benefits

Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have Lyme disease for quite a while now and been in treatment for over a year-and-a-half. I had made great progress but suspected food allergies. I found Recipes for Repair at their website [...] and looked over the 4 phase plan. The book starts with helpful information on the Lyme/inflammation connection...

Fresh from the Market: Seasonal Cooking with Laurent Tourondel and Charlotte March Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Seasonal cooking has become the 'in' thing to do. From local farmers markets to high end restaurants, people are beginning to understand the importance of eating local, seasonal foods. In Fresh From The Market, Laurent Tourondel brings seasonal foods to the table in some very elegant and unique ways.The...

Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The explanations of the ceremonies when certain dishes were prepared and eaten gave insights into how Native Americans lived and celebrated life. I was surprised how much history was involved in the dishes I grew up eating and had assumed were of early American or European origin. History books never...

Vegan Yum Yum: Decadent (But Doable) Animal-Free Recipes for Entertaining and Everyday Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love this cookbook! Since I follow her blog, I wasn't sure whether this cookbook would be worth my time, but it's been wonderful. Lots of recipes and lots of information are packed into this book. I own a lot of vegan and vegetarian cookbooks, and this one offers truly different and exciting recipes,...

Celiac Disease: Safe/Unsafe Food List and Essential Information On Living With A Gluten Free Diet Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been living with Celiac for over 15 years and I have every book, cookbook, grocery guide, and list I can download online and WOW, I can't believe the stuff they all missed. Besides the valuable research this author has obviously done, this book is the only one that fits in my purse easily when...

A Week in the Zone: A Quick Course in the Healthiest Diet for You Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In brief: the Zone diet works. Please note:1) This is *not* a crash diet. 2) This is *not* a starvation diet. 3) You get to eat *normal* food. On the down side, you *do* have to give up certain dishes (pasta, rice, and breads, for example)... but on the other hand you get to eat plenty of chicken, beef,...

The Vegan Table: 200 Unforgettable Recipes for Entertaining Every Guest at Every Occasion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Some background - This past mid-April, my husband and I attended the 5-Day McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA. Colleen was there as one of the chefs giving a cooking demo/lesson to help us learn how to cook food for our new healthy diet. My husband has always been an omnivore and swore he would never...

Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My professor assigned this text for my first ever online course. I was worried that with out the lectures that I would have a hard time understanding the material and properly completing my assignments. I found this text easy to understand and very informative. I really enjoy the controverisies at the...

Backyard BBQ: The Art of Smokology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Just so were on the same page, this book is on smoking, as opposed to be purely another book on BBQ. Smoking is a technique that takes time and patience and don't expect to get things perfect the first several tries. McPeake opens the book by discussing different types of smokers. McPeake says bigger...

Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I buy far too many cook books. I have everything from the Cooks Illustrated line-up to some Food Network/ PBS shows, etc.This has to be the best instructional cook book I have read. This book is not a sum total of recipes, nor is it a compilation of how the technique was developed... It is a lesson plan....

Foods to Fight Cancer: Essential foods to help prevent cancer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I wish I had read this book many years ago, as I am now a cancer survivor. However, since I intend to do my best to prevent a recurrence, it is still extremely valuable. What one reads in this book can also be read from the reports of the major cancer conferences in the country, such as the recent San...

The Star Trek Cookbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A Star-Trek cookbook narrated by Neelix the Chef was a nice idea, but poor editing, and not enough supervision by people who know Star Trek characters, have made this book a mess.First, some of the recipes themselves are poorly written and edited. For example, the Peptide Cake recipe does not specify...

The 150 Healthiest 15-Minute Recipes on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about How to Make the Most Deliciously Nutritious Meals at Home in Just Minutes a Day Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The food it this book is really good. It uses easily accesible food and easy techniques, and tells you want is good about the ingredents. However, the recipies are more like 15 min active time. Some are from start to finish 15 minutes, but most are 15 minutes prep and then baking. Also the nutritional...

Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Using Foods to Heal 2nd Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book seriously needs an editor. I have found much of value in the book, but have been frustrated frequently to find sentences and paragraphs left unfinished and sometimes entire pages missing or misplaced. Surely no one read through the entire copy before publication, or errors of this magnitude...

La Dolce Vegan: Vegan Livin' Made Easy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Le Dolce Vegan, the third cookbook by Sarah Kramer is a true joy. I have over three hundred cookbooks, but Sarah's blow my socks off. They're also some of the ones I use the most, even when cooking for non-vegans. Why? Her books are not only full of the most delicious, mouthwatering recipes ever, but...

Southern Living: 40 Years of Our Best Recipes: Over 250 Great-Tasting, Tried-and-True Southern Recipes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)No one has better recipes than Southern Living except my wife. The only thing better than the recipes in this book is the photograpy.This is how food is suppose to look. A cookbook without pictures leaves you wondering do I really want to try this dish? This book shouts "I sure do!" Though not evey entre'...

Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen: An Indispensable Guide for Anybody Who Likes to Cook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've tried recipes from virtually every cook/chef on the Food Network but Tyler's recipes are the only recipes that have consistently turned out good, if not great. His show Food 911 has provided several staples in our household which are very easy to cook and prepare, due to the nature of the show....