Allergy Self-Help Cookbook [Hardcover]

Marjorie Hurt Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1994

An easy-to-follow collection of more than three hundred recipes for allergy sufferers explains how to cook delicious meals without using such common allergens as milk, wheat, eggs, corn, yeast, sugar, and others.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 385 pages
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (August 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051712002X
• ISBN-13: 978-0517120026
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,332,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource book for all, not just the allergic., September 7, 1997

By 

L. Runkle (Cedar Rapids, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens (Paperback)

This book is a both a pain and a blessing. It's a pain, because I never know if a recipe will work. It's a blessing, because when they do work, they are spectacular.

The recipes are easy to follow, and have pleased even the most picky of eaters ( my 5-year-old son and his friends.) The variety is extensive, and substitutions are carefully laid out, along with the changes they will make to the appearance, flavor, and texture of the dish. Unfortunately, not all the recipes work. The Boston Brown Bread is an utter moist gloopy flop, as written.


In spite of the problems with recipes, the reference information is even more valuable; it contains lists of biologic families of foods, (Did you know that mangoes and cashews are in the same family? What about avocado and cinnamon?), information on how to avoid nutritional deficiencies, and an extensive appendix of suppliers.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tried muffins,cookies,breads,not edible,baking soda flavor, October 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens (Paperback)

A diappointment. My 4yr.old would eat none of the recipes. Don't blame him, they were not edible. The baking soda replacing the baking powder left a strong taste. The quantities for the carrot cookies stated 30 and make 12. Again the baking soda flavor was horrible. These recipes could not have been tested! My son has horrible allergies. I told him he was going to get all new "special food".After 2 weeks of cooking attempts with these recipes, he's eating only fruits and vegetables. Try again Marjorie.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing cookbook, December 28, 2000

By 

Linda Coss "Food Allergy Author" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens (Paperback)

Review by Linda Coss, author of "What's to Eat? The Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook".

Nine years ago, when my son was first diagnosed with multiple food allergies, this was the first cookbook I purchased. It proved to be very disappointing. The title of the book is quite misleading -- the book does not contain 325 recipes that are "free of wheat, milk, eggs, corn, yeast, sugar and other common food allergens." Many of the recipes contain one or more of these ingredients, and a large number of the recipes contain nuts, which is probably one of the most common food allergen there is.

I tried many of these recipes anyway, with absolutely no success. I realize that my family is not accustomed to "natural foods"-style cooking, but we still found these dishes unpalatable.