Gluten-Free Cookery: The Complete Guide for Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free Diets (Beginner's Guides) [Paperback]

Peter Thomson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Beginner's Guides | Publication Date: January 1, 2001

This guide offers clear descriptions and suggestions for using the wide range of foods that can be enjoyed as part of a gluten- or wheat-free diet. It contains both recipes and background information on the ingredients, including where to buy them.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Headline; 2nd edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340789247
• ISBN-13: 978-0340789247
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,906,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The kind of book a food chemist would create, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gluten-Free Cookery: The Complete Guide for Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free Diets (Complete Guides) (Paperback)

Obscure ingredients, and odd mixtures could characterise this book. Although the recipes are definately gluten free, they are complicated. Three or four different types of flour are used in many of the recipes, and include bean flour, soya flour, cornflour, teff flour....etc. If you are used to the usual rice, tapioca and potato flours, then this book is not for you. Also, ingredients have to be weighed instead of measured, which is very time consuming. I by far preferred "Special Diet Solutions" by Carol Fenster. It is far more practical.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book kept me sane., November 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Gluten-Free Cookery: The Complete Guide for Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free Diets (Complete Guides) (Paperback)

When I was told to put my autistic son on a dairy and gluten free diet 6 years ago I did not have a clue, I had never seen the point in baking a cake or a loaf of bread if you could buy it! Although we can get staples on prescription the book has made birthday cakes and treats a pleasure and surprise for all my children and the breads and pancake mixes vary his diet, the recipes are easy to adopt to dairy free if necessary.I have tried other books for variety, one used chickpea flour in everything which tasted wierd, I wonder if the recipes were tested! Others just specify a proprietory GF flour which seems pointless, and expensive if you cannot get them on prescription. Faced with the challenge of putting a family member on this diet, if you can get hold of this book it will be the only one you'll ever need, ours is reinforced with sticky tape and covered in food stains!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book saved my life, September 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gluten-Free Cookery: The Complete Guide for Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free Diets (Complete Guides) (Paperback)

I never cooked for myself before, but this book told me exactly what to do. Now I'm enjoying my food again. My meals had gotten much the same, but now I'm trying all the different things and putting weight back on.