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Title: Mediterranean Light : Delicious Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine by Martha R. Shulman ISBN: 0-688-17467-1 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: After almost 4 years I still love this book
Comment: I wrote in April of 2000 that I had lost 50 lbs. I've lost another 20 lbs - 70 in all and maintain that loss now for almost 4 years using this cookbook. I have given it to many friends and relatives. It has changed my eating style for the better for life. Every time there's a news story about the best way to eat it mirrors what Ms Shulman teaches in her books. It's no chore eating this way. I love it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too light for today
Comment: Many of the recipes in this cookbook are okay, but when I ordered it I failed to notice that it contains a "Forward by Dean Ornish, M.D." That would have been the tip-off.
We all know that too much fat is bad for us, and like many Americans my husband and I eat "light" nowadays--nonfat dairy products; very little beef, lamb or pork; no butter or margerine; skinless chicken and turkey. But much has changed in the dietary world since Shulman's book was first published in 1989. We now know that there are "good" fats as well as bad ones, and that an EXTREMELY low fat diet can be almost as unhealthy as a high-fat one.
If you are vegetarian, this book will probably be useful to you. However, it contains only nine recipes that contain chicken (note that most are not truly "chicken dishes"). Few recipes contain cheese or dairy products of any kind, and most disturbing is her insistance on reducing the olive oil content of most dishes to a miniscule amount. She even includes a recipe for a traditional provencal onion pissaladiere (pizza) which always includes olives: she writes she "left out the olives . . .for the diet version"!
There are many, many excellent mediterranean cookbooks on the market without going to the extreme of Shulman's. Dr. Atkins and Dr. Ornish are at the opposite extremes of the twenty-year- long fat versus carb controversy. Try an alternative mediterranean cookbook and find yourself a satisfying middle ground. I suggest The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook or any of Paula Wolfert's cookbooks. Another, unfortunately out of print, is Mediterranean Cooking the Healthful Way by Marilyn Spieler--my personal favorite. Go ahead: drizzle, don't dump, olive oil on your food and pop a couple of kalamata olives in your mouth. It's okay!
Rating: 5
Summary: I Cook Regularly From This
Comment: My rule of thumb is, if you get three recipes that you cook regularly out of a cookbook, and you otherwise enjoy it, it has earned its selling price. Let's see: I use the recipes for hummus, white bean and tuna salad, tabouleh, semolina bread, that thing with chard and fish . . . and there's lots more. The author explains how to do it all from scratch, which is always good to know, but I've saved some time substituting already cooked beans and, when I don't have any I've made myself, I've used commercially produced, fat-reduced chicken stock. Nutritional data is provided for each dish.
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Title: The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Antonia Trichopoulou ISBN: 0553096087 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Mediterranean Diet by Marissa Cloutier, Eve Adamson ISBN: 0380814412 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Provencal Light by Martha R. Shulman ISBN: 0688174655 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started by Helen V. Fisher, Cynthia Thomson, Kaja Lewinn, Ph.D, R.D. Cynthia Thomson, Helen V. Fisher ISBN: 1555612814 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 19 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Olive Oil Cookery: The Mediterranean Diet by Maher A. Abbas, John W. Farquhar, Marilyn J. Spiegl ISBN: 0913990116 Publisher: Book Pub Co Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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