Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies [Paperback]

Danna Korn (Author), Connie Sarros (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470178108 | ISBN-13: 978-0470178102 | Publication Date: April 7, 2008 | Edition: 1

Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too!

This practical, guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. You’ll find out what you can and can’t use in gluten-free cooking, learn to spot the hidden gluten in foods, discover surprising ways to save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight. You’ll also learn how to convert your current favorite recipes to gluten-free delights using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Discover how to:

• Prepare your kitchen for gluten-free cooking
• Shop for gluten-free products
• Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes
• Get the kids involved in gluten-free cooking
• Make any meal gluten free
• Add color and nutrition at the same time
• Cook gluten-free without a recipe
• Do the “impossible”— gluten-free baking
• Make gluten-free sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas
• Create fabulous gluten-free fish, chicken, and meat dishes
• Go gluten-free and vegetarian, too

Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods, kid’s favorites, and ways to eat gluten-free while traveling Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless!

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

More than 150 wheat- and gluten-free recipes

The fun and easy way to cook and eat well sans the gluten!

Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? This practical guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic, healthy dishes, from breakfast to dinner to dessert. You'll understand what you can and can't use in gluten-free cooking, spot the hidden gluten in foods, save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight.

Discover how to:

• Prepare your kitchen

• Shop for gluten-free products

• Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes

• Get the kids involved

• Make any meal gluten-free

About the Author

Danna Korn is also the author of Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, Wheat-Free, Worry-Free: The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Living, and Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Children. Respected as one of the leading authorities on the gluten-free diet and the medical conditions that benefit from it, she speaks frequently to health care professionals, celiacs, parents of celiacs, parents of autistic kids involved in a gluten-free/casein-free dietary intervention program, and others on or considering a gluten-free diet. She has been invited twice to be a presenter at the International Symposium on Celiac Disease.
Danna has been researching celiac disease since her son, Tyler, was diagnosed with the condition in 1991. That same year, she founded R.O.C.K. (Raising Our Celiac Kids), a support group for families of children on a glutenfree diet. Today, Danna leads more than 100 chapters of R.O.C.K. worldwide. She is a consultant to retailers, manufacturers, testing companies, dietitians, nutritionists, and people newly diagnosed with gluten intolerance and celiac disease. She also coordinates the International Walk/Run for Celiac Disease each May in San Diego.

Connie Sarros is a pioneer in writing gluten-free cookbooks for celiacs, beginning at a time when few people had even heard of the disease. She has written five cookbooks, a “Newly Diagnosed Survivial Kit,” and made a DVD that covers all you need to know about gluten-free cooking. She writes weekly menus for people with additional dietary restrictions and puts out two monthly newsletters. Connie is also a staff writer for other celiac newsletters, including having a monthly “Ask the Cook” column.
In addition to being a featured speaker at national celiac conferences, Connie travels the country speaking to celiac and austistic support groups and often meets with dietitians to explain the gluten-free diet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (April 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470178108
• ISBN-13: 978-0470178102
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled by title - much more than just cooking tips, September 20, 2008

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Bryan T. Van Noy "gluten-free for 8 years" (Southern CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies (Paperback)

I was pleasantly surprised that the book goes far beyond gluten-free cooking tips and recipes. I have read Korn's other 3 books, and all have been tremendously helpful, and even inspiring. The gluten-free diet can be a shocker (give up your beer, your bread, your tasty baked treats, etc.), but the author somehow makes it easy to understand the nuances of this tricky diet. You feel like you are getting one-on-one expert advice in an easygoing, relaxed style. It's weird, but you feel like you know the author after reading the book. The book is even funny.

For anyone starting out on a gluten-free diet, any of Korn's books are winners. If you also like to cook, this is a double dose of education. You will probably refer to it often. Highly recommended on all counts.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but not basic, January 28, 2009

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Timothy Obrien (Olympia WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies (Paperback)

Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies is an OK cookbook, but suffers from an overly chatty and opinionated voice, and in some ways is too advanced and specialized in recipe selection.

Pros: Many recipes, covering a fairly broad selection of recipes. Coverage of most of the basics of adapting from gluten-cooking to gluten-free-cooking, and lots of introduction and supplementary material. Includes a basic GF flour recipe for use or adaptation to virtually all baking projects.

Cons: Very opinionated writing voice, with a lot of sneering at other people's opinions or habits. Strangely for a cookbook, Korn wastes ink talking about how she hates to measure! The recipes do have measurements for those of use she likes to dislike, who actually do want to use a standard amount, but she tends to sneer at the idea. (Measureless cooking using "glops" and "dashes" would be adventurous, since one person's dash is different from another's.)

While there are many recipes, there are some strange choices of dishes; the one that really stands out is the no-sauce pizza. Sauce is generally gluten-free, and the basic American pizza has sauce, so why not do a basic pizza; I'm sure it's easy enough to adapt and just add sauce, but why not give the basic pizza and the specialized one, too?

There's a strong pro-vegetarian, pro-organic ingredient, pro-Paleolithic diet stream running through, and I found it distracting and annoying. Take out all of this unnecessary material and she might have found space to address more basic cooking for the newly gluten-free types who are not used to cooking for themselves in the first place.

So, good information, some very good ideas and material, with some bad writing, annoying voice, and apparently little editorial reigning in.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good info, ok recipes, January 8, 2009

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M. Athayde - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies (Paperback)

The book has a lot of good info in it as to how to cook and live gluten free. However the book does not mark in the recipes which items you need to make sure are gluten free (it notes early in the book that there are "some items" that you will need to make sure are gluten free, the other GF cooling books i have bought and used have marked every item in the ingredients list.

It is a good starting point, and the BBQ meat loaf (page 210 if i recall correctly) is AMAZING, but the other recipes in the book i have tried so far have been pretty bland, maybe i just so far have chosen the wrong ones but compared to the other GF cook books ive used this has a much lower percentage of great recipes

-matt