Diabetes Cooking for Everyone: 250 All-Natural, Low-Glycemic Recipes to Nourish and Rejuvenate [Paperback]

Carol Gelles (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 2008

An award-winning cookbook author, professionally trained nutritionist, and type 2 diabetic, Carol Gelles combines gourmet flair with cutting-edge dietary knowledge in this essential, all-in-one diabetes cookbook. All 250 of the recipes in Diabetes Cooking for Everyone accommodate the dietary restrictions that accompany common diabetes complications by providing recipe variations for reducing fat and saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, protein, or carbohydrates. Plus, each recipe has a GI rating for optimal nutrition and a list of diabetic exchanges to facilitate meal planning. These truly delicious yet easy-to-make dishes address the health needs of everyone with diabetes and nourish the entire family, too.

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About the Author

Carol Gelles is the recipient of an IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award and a James Beard Award. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (July 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600940633
• ISBN-13: 978-1600940637
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Diabetic cooking for everyone, February 28, 2010

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Becky (beckygardens) (new orleans, LA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diabetes Cooking for Everyone: 250 All-Natural, Low-Glycemic Recipes to Nourish and Rejuvenate (Paperback)

Gelles has written a good cookbook with tasty recipes. The reviewer before based her review on the peek inside amazon provides, and unfortunately has based her review on a misconception. Gelles does provide a complete nutritional breakdown for each recipe, but oddly, it's in the back of the book starting on page 362. I don't know why the nutritional information wasn't put on each page with the recipe, one of my Mayo clinic cookbooks does this also, which I find inconvenient and thus my four stars.

It would be much easier to pick up the book, see a recipe, and have the nutritional information on the same page, rather than having to look it up in back. That being said, the recipes are good. I especially like the great shakes section, where she gives several spice mixes that are easy to mix and then shake on chicken or meat for different flavors. The recipes are well laid out, easy to read, the ingredients basic and easy to find in any grocery store.

Gelles also provides alternatives in most recipes to either reduce the fat or the protein. She also gives menu suggestions, such at serve this chicken with the past on page 232 and the tri color salad on page 141 (just an example, not sure of the actual page numbers)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, diabetes cookbook!, March 29, 2011

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Karen Genest - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Diabetes Cooking for Everyone: 250 All-Natural, Low-Glycemic Recipes to Nourish and Rejuvenate (Paperback)

I have cooked over a dozen of the recipes from this book. All delicious. All fairly quick. Not hard to follow at all. I highly recommend this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this Book !, March 13, 2011

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Carol Adams (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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As an owner of many cookbooks this was a nice find for me. As a newly diagnosed diabetic, it has a lot of great recipes that I'm sure I will add to my recipe rotation for myself and for my family! This was a keeper though I'm not sure I would buy it new.