Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle With over 250 Delicious Recipes, Everything You Need to Know About Stocking the Pantry

McCullough, Fran

ISBN 10: 0786889918 / ISBN 13: 9780786889914

Published by Hyperion Books, New York, NY, USA, 1997

About this Item

unused book / old store stock; clean, tight and square, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, text is clean and unmarked, pages are yellowed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle With over 250 Delicious Recipes, Everything You Need to Know About Stocking the Pantry
• Publisher: Hyperion Books, New York, NY, USA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786889918
• ISBN 13: 9780786889914
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cooking
  • Health
  • Diet / Exercise

About this title

Synopsis

Supporting a growing nutritional movement that emphasizes a reduction in carbohydrate intake, the author of Great Food without Fuss, who herself lost sixty pounds on a low-carb diet, provides readers with all the detailed information they need to make the dietary switch.

Review

Written by a James Beard Award-winning author who's also a writing teacher at the revered Culinary Institute of America, The Low-Carb Cookbook presents a colorful approach to the low-carb, high-protein diet so many people swear by. The author, Fran McCullough, has herself lost 60 pounds by following a low-carbohydrate diet, so you know you're in good hands. With more than 250 recipes, including appetizers, sauces, sides, main dishes, and delectable desserts, it'll keep you cookin'.

She's definitely taken a gourmet approach to the recipes. While they're all tempting, notables include Three-Grain Pancakes with Raspberry-Orange Sauce, Nut-Crusted Swordfish with Romesco Sauce, and Crème Fraîche Ice Cream. Unlike the many other low-carb cookbooks out there, McCullough gives advice for tracking down the best prepared food products and additional tips for healthy food preparation (for example, she recommends organic meat and dairy products whenever possible and cautions that "free-range" chickens are allowed to stick their heads out of their cages--not necessarily given the chance to frolic freely on the farm). There's also an interesting comparison of low-carb books, including Protein Power, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, and The Zone, which boils down to this: they all emulate many aspects of the Overeater's Anonymous recommended diet. But where the diet books that started the low-carb craze may not be all that original, The Low-Carb Cookbook certainly is, with its wonderfully creative and classy recipes. The perfect choice if you want to rise from a food-boredom rut or entertain for friends--and not let on that you're counting carbs. --Erica Jorgensen