A revolutionary eating plan based on a food pyramid even sounder than the USDA's, complemented by recipes from the author of The Greens Cookbook and The Savory Way. Dr. Spiller introduces a new five-food-group program which graphically represents each food group's proportion in a healthy diet. Line illustrations.

Includes recipes by Deborah Madison, author of The Greens Cookbook.

In this new edition of the bestselling Get the Sugar Out, nationally renowned nutritionist and well-known author Ann Louise Gittleman explains that sugar not only contributes to weight gain but also to mood swings, weakened immunity, diabetes, some cancers, and cardiovascular disease. Here she offers 501 simple, resourceful, and practical tips for cutting sugar from your diet, giving you the knowledge and inspiration you need to live a healthier life. A few of Gittleman’s basic ways to cut sugar include: • Eat more meals at home, so you can oversee the ingredients and avoid hidden sugars • If you have a sweet tooth, try tricking it by chewing on a cinnamon stick • Be a food detective; don’t trust “sugar free” or “fat free” labels • Cut down on salt not only to be healthier but because it helps cut out sugar cravings • Don’t exchange sugar for artificial sweeteners; as you’ll find out here, many are harmful With type II diabetes at an all-time high, cutting sugar from your diet is imperative. Get the Sugar Out is your solution for treatment and prevention: a unique, practical guide to a healthy and happy low-sugar lifestyle.

This newly revised and updated edition of Cholesterol Cures examines in-depth research on improving your overall cholesterol profile. Cholesterol Cures goes beyond traditional advice and explains how specific foods and nutritional supplements, along with physical activity and lifestyle changes, have a direct correlation to healthy cholesterol levels. From familiar remedies—such as garlic, oats, and fish oil supplements—to unique finds such as grapeseed extract and coenzyme Q10, this book offers a definitive guide to improving your health. It also debunks the myth of “forbidden foods” like red meats and dairy and provides a guide on how to integrate high cholesterol foods as part of a healthy, cholesterol-friendly diet.

Completely revised and updated to contain the latest developments in combating cholesterol, a valuable guide shows how to lower cholesterol through menu plans, low-fat dietary regimens, and all-natural remedies; explains the new cholesterol guidelines released by the National Institute of Health; features new sections on vitamins and herbs; and much more. Original. 15,000 first printing.

In the past twenty years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakers--from baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instructor Richard Miscovich wants people to use their ovens to fulfill the goal of maximum heat utilization. Readers will find methods and techniques for cooking and baking in a wood-fired oven in the order of the appropriate temperature window. What comes first--pizza, or pastry? Roasted vegetables or a braised pork loin? Clarified butter or beef jerky? In addition to an extensive section of delicious formulas for many types of bread, readers will find chapters on: - Making pizza and other live-fire flatbreads; - Roasting fish and meats; - Grilling, steaming, braising, and frying; - Baking pastry and other recipes beyond breads; - Rendering animal fats and clarifying butter; - Food dehydration and infusing oils; - And myriad other ways to use the oven's residual heat. Appendices include oven-design recommendations, a sample oven temperature log, Richard's baker's percentages, proper care of a sourdough starter, and more. . . . From the Wood Fired Oven is more than a cookbook; it reminds the reader of how a wood-fired oven (and fire, by extension) draws people together and bestows a sense of comfort and fellowship, very real human needs, especially in uncertain times. Indeed, cooking and baking from a wood-fired oven is a basic part of a resilient lifestyle, and a perfect example of valuable traditional skills being put to use in modern times.

"The remarkably low incidences of heart disease found among the people of the Mediterranean are a modern example of the many amazing Nutrition Secrets of the Ancients. Others abound in these pages, which combine historical research with modern dietary and culinary expertise. Celebrated chefs - including Deborah Madison, Claudia Roden, and Aglaia Kremezi - have prepared more than 150 surprising, delightful, and thoroughly modern recipes from those ancient secrets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

For introductory courses in general culinary arts and food and beverage programs. Attractively designed and extensively illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this introduction to cooking and food preparation presents information that is relevant to today's student chef. It emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, focuses on the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food chemistry.

This is the low-fat book cooks who care about wholesome, vegetarian-inspired food have been waiting for, with more than 280 recipes that are as delicious and trustworthy as those in the Moosewood Collective's previous books. With fourteen chapters, ranging from savory soups and main course salads to creative side dishes and aromatic Mediterranean and Asian-inspired dishes, fat will not be missed in mouthwatering recipes like Guacamole with Asparagus, Chinese Orzo Vegetable Salad, Spring Vegetable Paella, Indian Potato Pancakes, and Creamy Dairyless Rice Pudding. Along with those creative dishes, there are also low-fat variations on familiar favorites such as Macaroni and Cheese, Shephard's Pie, and Dark Chocolate Pudding. An added bonus: the Moosewood Collective has made sure that the ingredients used in the recipes throughout the book are easily found in most well-stocked supermarkets. Along with nutritional and glossary guides that provide explanations of nutritional terms, instructions for how to glean the information you need from nutrition labels, a brief overview of vitamins and minerals, and guides to ingredients and cooking techniques, the Collective also offers tips and ideas for sustaining a low-fat lifestyle. They bake rather than fry, replace high-fat ingredients with healthy substitutes (no artificial ingredients allowed!), and use butter and oil very moderately, so that what is lost in fat is gained in bold, intense flavors. Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites is sure to set the kitchen standard not only for health-conscious cooks, but also for those who have come to rely on the Moosewood Collective's easy, earthy approach to cooking.

Collected over thirty years of research as leader of the "Foods of England" project, Glyn Hughes from the Peaks of Derbyshire brings togher over one thousand of the oddest and most forgotten of old English foods, together with actual receipts (not "recipe", that's French) to make them ... -- Back cover