Cooking with the Diabetic Chef: Expert Chef Chris Smith Shares His Secrets to Creating More Than 150 Simply Delicious Meals for Peop [Paperback]

Chris Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2000

First-ever cookbook written by a trained chef with diabetes. Pizza, chicken and mushrooms in white wine sauce, to-die-for chocolate cake. Foods that melt in your mouth and make your taste buds come alive. 150 recipes created by Chris Smith, the diabetic chef. There's virtually nothing you can't have anymore!

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Culinary Institute of America graduates don't often worry about food's nutritional values. But CIA product Chris Smith has diabetes, so he understands that for himself and his fellow sufferers, the food they consume can indeed be a matter of life and death. Nevertheless, the diabetic in no way must endure a life of bland, uninteresting food. Smith has taken the principles of the best contemporary cooking (fresh ingredients, ethnic variety, eye appeal, multiple textures, and assertive flavors) and applied them to a tightly carbohydrate-controlled diet. To emphasize the importance of fresh ingredients, Smith organizes recipes by season to take advantage of the market's best-quality output. Recipes vary in complexity from sophisticated Grilled Apple Pear Soup to a simple Meat Loaf free of the usual starch binder. Collections lacking good contemporary recipes for diabetics would do well to add this volume. Mark Knoblauch
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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: American Diabetes Association; 1 edition (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580400434
• ISBN-13: 978-1580400435
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > American Diabetes Association

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Epinion Review!, July 16, 2001

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E. Sequeira "Lee Romano Sequeira" (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking with the Diabetic Chef: Expert Chef Chris Smith Shares His Secrets to Creating More Than 150 Simply Delicious Meals for Peop (Paperback)

Still hot off the press, "Cooking with the Diabetic Chef" is the first diabetic cookbook actually written by a chef who suffers from diabetes. As someone who has recently read a lot of diabetic cookbooks (blech!), I am quite impressed.

Several months ago, when I first learned that I was a Type 1 diabetic (I have to inject insulin several times a day), I ran around to the library and several bookstores looking for some cookbooks that might allow me to return to normalcy. I was pretty horrified by what I found. While there were a lot of books to choose from, they really didn't contain the sort of food that you might want to eat every day, or that someone else (a non-diabetic) might want to share with you.

Cooking With the Diabetic Chef puts all those other books to shame. I've read the whole book and made several of the recipes and it seems to contain nary a clunker. What makes the difference is that it was written by someone who actually eats the food and is a chef to boot.

Chris Smith, the author, begins with a forward that explains how devastated he was as a student at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) when he discovered he was a diabetic. Apprenticed at one of New York's most prestigious restaurants, Le Cirque he was unable to keep up with the fast paced environment, feeling tired and run down. When he learned what was wrong he was quite plainly horrified but soon discovered that with proper management he would be able to pursue his dreams.

His new book, published by the American Diabetic Association, proves that healthy food doesn't have to be flavorless and bland. One of my favorite recipes so far is the Cajun Sweet Potato (very spicy and to die for). I have also made several of the more normal (which is what I had been looking for) recipes such as blueberry muffins, banana pancakes and crab cakes. All of them were excellent (the lunch crowd at work begged for tastes of the leftovers), not a bit bland or blah, something you would be proud to serve or share with non-diabetics.

It's an attractive paperback with photographs that will make you want to try all the recipes. If you know someone who is diabetic, this book would make an excellent gift. It has a good mix of fancy recipes (something you might feed company) and recipes for simple comfort food. It is one of the best cookbooks I have ever read or used and it is THE BEST diabetic cookbook I have ever seen.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must" for all diabetic cookbook collections., August 5, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking with the Diabetic Chef: Expert Chef Chris Smith Shares His Secrets to Creating More Than 150 Simply Delicious Meals for Peop (Paperback)

Cooking with the Diabetic Chef shares a chef's secrets for creating over a hundred meals, focussing on meals which can be produced quickly and including color photos of finished results. Calories, fat, and exchange details are included in sidebars of information to accompany dishes of appeal to the entire family.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Changing the way I prepare my meals, August 31, 2008

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Carmen Santos (Flushing, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking with the Diabetic Chef: Expert Chef Chris Smith Shares His Secrets to Creating More Than 150 Simply Delicious Meals for Peop (Paperback)

My husband was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetis. I thought how can I get him to eat differently? I knew nothing of this illness. I searched the web and found this wonderful book. I have learned so much from it. I look forward to preparing meals that are exciting to make and delicious to eat. I actually join my husband with many of his meals. I have also learned to experiment on my own. This book is recommended highly by me. Thank you.