Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2003 [Hardcover]

Sunset Books (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2002

Nearly 900 kitchen-tested recipes, about three times as many as most cookbooks, offer great taste, good nutrition, and simplicity.Complete, easy-to-read nutrient analysis with each recipe lets you know just how healthy your favorite Cooking Light recipes are.Hundreds of food preparation tips, step-by-step photos, food facts, and menu suggestions, plus three different cross-referenced indexes make finding every recipe a cinch.A companion web site will offer the reader interactive capabilities such as archival searches, rating recipes, and other enhanced features.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848725468
• ISBN-13: 978-0848725464
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #44 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Low Salt

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of good, practical recipies, February 28, 2003

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Matthew Hunter "Technology Geek" (Blacksburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2003 (Hardcover)

I own a lot of cookbooks... but I've never had one quite like this. This is the first cookbook where I look through the recipies, and think "Hey - I should make that some time" for most of the recipies. Other cookbooks seem to be literally filled with recipies that either don't look any good, or require exotic ingredients only availble to people in major metropolitan centers.

With this cookbook, however, I flip through the pages wishing i had time to make almost all of the 900 recipies. I've made about 20 things out of this book now, and have enjoyed almost all of them a lot.

Pros:
- Contains a good, detailed introduction for the novice cook, including information on herbs, cooking methods, etc.
- Contains almost 900 recipies that you can actually make and enjoy.
- Has recipies from almost every category - breads, meats, desserts, soups, etc.
- I totally disagree with the person who said the layout is lousy . I've never had trouble finding anything in this book.
- The recipies, while not being extremely low fat, *are* from cooking light, and hence are healthier in general than most other cookbooks. Plus, the recipies don't ever seem to sacrifice flavor for a *light* rating.

Cons:
- You'll spend longer in the kitchen trying to make more of these

Sorry - I don't really have a good con for this book :)

If you love too cook - you'll love this book!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cooking Light needs help, October 7, 2003

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S. VanValkenburg "salvanv" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2003 (Hardcover)

This(and other Cooking Light books)definately need a better way to organize the recipes. The book doesn't even follow the order of the monthly magazines recipes. It is severely lacking in photographs. Most of the beautiful photos from the magazines are not used in the cookbook. The photos would be helpful in selecting recipes...especially because the book is not organized by food category. The recipes might be great, but who has 2 hours to search through a cookbook to find something to cook??

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of wonderful recipes, long prep time, February 21, 2004

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Erin (Starkville, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2003 (Hardcover)

I've been a subscriber to Cooking Light magazine for a couple of years and I love it. I decided to get the 2003 book to save some space. The photographs in the book are beautiful and mouth-watering, but there are not enough (I like to see what the final product looks like when I am cooking). I do like that the nutritional information including calories, fat, protein, carb, fiber are listed for each recipe. I do find that many of the recipes have a long prep time and this a deterrent for me at this busy stage in my life. For the "true" chef, though, there will be no problem and the recipes will be wonderful to make. Generally, the ingredients are readily available, but for some of the recipes, there are ingredients that I have no idea where to buy them. The book is organzied by month--like the magazine. Really, overall, a beautiful book.