Healthy Cooking for Two (or Just You): Low-Fat Recipes with Half the Fuss and Double the Taste
by Frances Price
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Author: Frances PriceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-15
ISBN: 0875964486
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Rodale Books
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Book Review: Wonderful format more than makes up for a few bland recipes and dated nutritional advice
Summary: 5 Stars
I own several cookbooks intended for "solo" cooks, and this is my favorite of the bunch, no contest. The recipe formats are simple and easy to follow, and most of them can be carried out by an inexperienced cook with minimal difficulty and fair-to-excellent results. Furthermore, most of the ingredients called for here are easily found at any full service grocery store; the results are often quite economical. Anyone on a tight budget would do well using this book for a mainstay. The design is a bit soft and feminine for my taste, but I recognize the nurturing vibe being expressed here, and it doesn't cloy or irritate me the way serious self righteous Mennonite cookbooks or hippie tomes like "Diet For A Small Planet" do. This is a great cookbook.
I only have a couple of quibbles with "Healthy Cooking For Two". First the book was written more than a decade ago (1995) and some of nutritional philosophy doesn't hold up all that well. The author is a Registered Dietician and her approach sticks to the "cut the fat and salt" mantra of the 90s. You know, the same approach that resulted in an unprecedented explosion of obesity and type II diabetes in the adult US population. (To be fair, a huge increase in processed and junk foods in general were also to blame). In the face of current advances of nutritional thinking embodied in more recent works such as Clowers' "The Fat Fallacy", Bently's "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival" and Enig's "Eat Fat, Lose Fat", the writing here seems a bit quaint and fusty. There is a lot of vegan/vegetarian silliness here, such as idea of combining beans and rice to make a "complete protein", when in fact you'd have to consume huge amounts (and hundreds of grams of carbs) of such a mixture to get adequate protein intake. Veggies and grains are good for you and you need them, but I've never been convinced that vegetarians and vegans are any healthier than carnivores and omnivores.
Second, in some cases the effort to simplify and streamline the recipes goes too far, producing a bland and unsatisfying result with a nasty glycemic spike. For instance, Price's version of Potato-Leek soup is quick and easy to make, but is also very bland. It could have been rescued by boiling the potatoes separately, ricing them and stirring them into the mixture and adding just a couple spoonfuls of coconut milk or sherry vinegar to the final product.
In general, when you are exploring the vegetarian portions in the book, be aware that you may need to be a bit more liberal with the (good) oils, (kosher and sea) salt and hot and sharp spices than the "tame" amounts Price goes with here to get palate pleasing results and you may want to experiment with more modern braising, roasting/carmelization and fermentation methods to improve the results. As the cook grows in experience and sophistication, he or she will find these are good springboards to more flavorful and satiating dishes down the line.
So the book is not perfect, and if Price were to revisit this book for an updated edition with more modern perspectives on cooking and nutrition, I'd be the first in line to buy it. But these shortcomings are not enough to keep me from unreservedly recommending this book to any inexperienced solo cook looking for dozens of useful recipes that will nurture the inner person without boring the palate or breaking the budget. It really is a wonderful book to have in your collection.
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Summary of Healthy Cooking for Two (or Just You): Low-Fat Recipes with Half the Fuss and Double the Taste
* More than 200 creative, low-fat recipes for today's smaller households
* Unique two-column recipe format for hassle-free preparation
* Tips on shopping for one or two, and streamlining your kitchen
* Full nutrient analysis with every recipe
* Special chapter of delicious, no-fuss menus
* Plenty of 30-minute recipes-- plus meatless meals, divine desserts, tip-packed boxes and more
* Unique two-column recipe format for hassle-free preparation
* Tips on shopping for one or two, and streamlining your kitchen
* Full nutrient analysis with every recipe
* Special chapter of delicious, no-fuss menus
* Plenty of 30-minute recipes-- plus meatless meals, divine desserts, tip-packed boxes and more
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