The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have! [Paperback]

Marilyn Gioannini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1997

Delicious Recipes for Special Diets
Many common health problems can be traced to your diet. The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook makes the difficult task of changing your diet amazingly easy. Avoiding common foods like wheat, corn and dairy products doesn't have to be a hassle, or mean giving up favorites like bread, pizza, or even ice cream!
At the heart of The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook are more than 150 appetizing recipes incorporating substitutions that finally make it possible to eat what you want without adverse reactions. In addition to hundreds of great ideas for delicious allergen-free cooking, you'll discover:
·Easy instructions for altering your favorite recipes
·Tips for eating in restaurants, at dinner parties, and while traveling
·Delicious ways to use alternative grains like kamut, quinoa, amaranth, and teff

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Delicious Recipes for Special Diets

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Many common health problems can be traced to your diet. The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook makes the difficult task of changing your diet amazingly easy. Avoiding common foods like wheat, corn and dairy products doesn't have to be a hassle, or mean giving up favorites like bread, pizza, or even ice cream!
At the heart of The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook are more than 150 appetizing recipes incorporating substitutions that finally make it possible to eat what you want without adverse reactions. In addition to hundreds of great ideas for delicious allergen-free cooking, you'll discover:Easy instructions for altering your favorite recipes
Tips for eating in restaurants, at dinner parties, and while traveling
Delicious ways to use alternative grains like kamut, quinoa, amaranth, and teff
About the Author
Marilyn Gioannini identified her own intolerance to common foods only after years of suffering from ailments her doctors could not cure. After reading about the many effects of food allergies, she discovered she could avoid chronic joint and muscle pain and depression by simply changing her diet, and went on to do the research and experimentation that lead to this book. Today she keeps herself and her family healthy, happy, and well-fed with a steady diet of nutritious dishes made without wheat, corn, dairy products, beef, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, citrus fruits, or artificial preservatives. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 5, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761509615
• ISBN-13: 978-0761509615
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Review, June 4, 2001

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This review is from: The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have! (Paperback)

I thought this book had some good recipes, however, I found that it was not appropriate for the food allergies that my son has. Some of the recipes have soy, egg or nut in them and all of these I must avoid for my son. If you are able to have these items then you may enjoy this book, however, if you are looking for a cookbook that offers alternatives to these allergens then you are better off seeking out another book.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect starter book, June 2, 2001

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Mary Ann Wasser (California, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have! (Paperback)

This was the first book I got after finding out my son has multiple food allergies. It was a great help in learning to use all the different types of flours in baking and breadmaking. It was full of helpful information for substitutions in recipes, and every recipe in her book has a list of variations that can be used with that recipe in case you can't use it exactly as is. It also has examples of how to create new recipes from your old recipes using foods you aren't allergic to. I was so overwhelmed when I first found out my son was allergic to dozens of foods. I didn't think I'd ever learn to cook for him, but with the things I learned in this book I'm feeling much more hopeful and confident. As far as the main dish recipes in this book I haven't found much I thought my son would try. But, I learned so much about the basics that I can modify most of our old favorites now and we hardly notice the difference.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not suitable for the gluten intolerant, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have! (Paperback)

I was looking for gluten free recipes, and was seriously disappointed by this book. Although there are a few gluten free recipes, there is nothing that can't be obtained elsewhere. For those seeking gluten free recipes, I recommend Special Diet Solutions by Carol Fenster, or any of the books by Bette Hagman. There are too many oats, spelt, teff and kamut in this book!