Customer Reviews

Amazing Soy: A Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking This Nutritional Powerhouse With 240 Recipes

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While I'm sure that hard-core vegetarians and other food purists will complain about this book, which contains a few recipes containing eggs, dairy products, as well as meat and fish, this is a superb book for anyone wishing to learn more about soy foods. This book is especially useful for cooks, like me, who eat meat, but who are interested in exploring ways to add economical and nutritious soy foods to their families' diets. With careful descriptions and explanations of a broad range of soy foods, from miso to tofu to tempeh and everything in between, this book offers recipes for many meals and occasions, using easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow instructions. Substitutions are often suggested, and most of the recipes can be created from ingredients readily obtainable in most supermarkets. The recipes are both imaginative and tasty. I'd recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone who loves to cook and is interested in alternative sources of protein.

This book showed dozens of ways to eat soy that were new to me. Going well beyond tofu, the possibilities in this book are just amazing. Dana really shows how versatile soy is and how easy it is to use in fabulous dishes.

The ingredients she uses do include the usual ones-tofu, miso, soymilk, and tempeh. I also liked her edamame recipes. I had no idea you could cook with these sweet, little green soybeans. It also shows how to use products like soy yogurt, crumbles, a kind of meat replacement, and how to bake using soy protein powder.

The food in this book is healthy but I like the way Dana emphasizes great taste and fun. (Love the Chocolate Cupcakes Dream Cream filling. When I made them, my friends never guessed there was soy in them.)

Dana clearly is not a member of the Diet Police. Some of her recipes use eggs, which we now know are fine to eat in moderation. I love that she recommends real Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese over the soy version, even on the soy pasta she uses.

I want to try the Quinoa, Sweet Potato and Smoked Tofu Salad, Caesar Salad with Parmesan Croutons (made from tempeh), and Laotian Lemon "Pork" with Green Beans. This one uses a soy meat she claims resembles chicken.

Along with meatless dishes, about a dozen recipes do include poultry or fish along with soy. Maybe the Florentine Meatloaf, combining soy crumbles with ground turkey, will convince my tofu-hating uncle that he can get his blood cholesterol down by eating some soy.

The dessert recipes look really great. I won't feel so guilty enjoying Panna Cotta making it with soymilk. According to the nutritional analysis for the recipe, it has just 165 calories and less cholesterol than a quarter of one egg. I have tried the Cranberry-Lime Sorbet. It took about 20 minutes to make, not including freezing. Can't believe something so delicious has no fat in it at all.

Besides the recipes, I learned an incredible amount about all kinds of soy products. The guidance on technique is also very valuable. I even enjoyed reading this book.

This is a superb cookbook! This is a collection of the best soy recipes I've ever seen. There is also an abundance of information about the various forms of soy foods. This is a comprehensive cookbook with everything from breakfast to desserts, and everything in between. All of the recipes have excellent instructions that make each recipe a success every time.
For anyone who wishes to incorporate soy into their diet - vegetarian or meat-lover- this is the perfect cookbook. I highly recommend the Double Chocolate Bread Pudding, Roasted Tomato Bisque and Southwestern Bean Spread!

very well written and the recipes are very tasty. I'm trying to replace meat in my diet and there are many recipes that taste just like meat, such as meatless tacos p.191 made with soy crumbles, tofu stir fry p.258.
I actually use this cookbook more than any other. It goes way beyond just addding tofu to vegetables to create gourmet healthy meals.
I also highly reccomend The Soy Zone book by B. Sears to explain why soy is so important a factor in living healthier.

Yeah, me too... Did not grow up with soy and soy products actually, but my mom had used it in her kitchen when I was little. Since my mom lives in Europe, I can't really go to her for every little advice on cooking with soy so I decided to get me the cookbook with best reviews at the time, and I purchased this one...

It has a wealth of information though regarding soy and soy products. You will be able to whip up some tasty meals including this veggie wonder that helps you stay young and strong, and cancer free (as long as you use organic soy products).

This is a cookbook with no pictures! Why? That is why I took off one star.

To your health!

The introduction of Soy to one's diet can only improve your health.Unless, you have discovered that you're allegeric to this food product of Soy.This book is loaded with excellent information about the history and uses of Soy.Now,this should not turn people away from ever using milk products again.This Soy cookbook does not shun the use of milk,yet suggests that there is a better healthier alternative to whole milk in one's daily diet.Your body needs fat.Both soy and cow's milk has this.The Soy,however,has the potent phyto-chemicals and isoflavons.This helps prevent breast cancer for women and colon cancer for middle-aged people.People should also be aware that most Soy is not grown chemically free however.Pesticides and herbicides are also used in the soy fields.And some soy producers may not test water quality used on their fields.I would investigate 'Consumer Reports', for the best organic soy companies that follow strict regulations concerning their soy production,from the field to your store-shelf.

IF you have an immune disorder like hypothyroidism, soy is not your friend. It can cause allergies, weight gain (severe weight gain), aches, pains, headaches, nausea, tiredness, and the list goes on. Please do your research before deciding to consume soy. I loved soy for years and ate it in the form of tofu, soy milk, veggie burgers, veggie dogs, etc. and it only did damage to my body. I know several people whom soy did damage to them, but yet to find one person soy helped someone. I think it is whoever is behind the "soy industry" that is making the health claims of it.

I wonder if the author of this cookbook is aware of the mounting evidence of the dangers of soy. Go to the reviews of "The Whole Soy Story" by Kaayla T. Daniel, and you will see that the hyped claims of soy are just that. It will not be long before soy is recognized for what it is: an anti-nutrient. Most of the way soy is processed is so far gone from nature, that the human body cannot assimilate it. It is a myth that Asians consume lots of soy; what they do is in the form of miso, tempeh, soy sauce (which are all fermented and properly prepared), and miniscule amounts of tofu.