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Gluten-Free: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes Your Family Will Love

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This is an attractive cookbook and every recipe I have tried has been delicious and easy to follow. The dishes tend to be elegant and great for entertaining, but not too difficult for everyday family meals. However, I have noted a couple ingredients that are not gluten-free, such as blue cheese and beer. Overall, I highly recommend this cookbook, but do not rely on all ingredients listed to be gluten-free.

This atractively presented book has given our family a new lease of life with cooking for a gluten-freen diet. The recipes are easy to follow and well presented. The range of recipes presented in the book makes it easy to make a selection for any occasion. Dining out is nearly impossible on a gluten-free diet. This cookbook makes dining in a treat.The introduction to the book gives renewed interest in cooking for those people who suffer from food allergies (and those who have to eat with them).

Michael Cox's Gluten Free cookboook is awesome. I was immediately drawn to it because it doesn't have a bunch of baked goods on the cover; most gluten-free cookbooks recreate painfully inferior versions of gluten-y food you used to love. That doesn't interest me at all. I want to make delicious food that happens to be gluten-free, and that's what this book is. For that reason, there's no weird ingredients that are hard to find, another plus. Also, he doesn't assume everyone has a lot of expensive kitchen equipment - he tells you how to do something with a food processor if you have one, but also if you don't, how to do it with everyday non-electric equipment.

Most of the recipes seem to come from Cox's experience cooking for his guest house in Spain, so there's a great Spanish/mediterranean flavor to it that is casually gluten-free.

Some recipes I've tried so far - homemade mayonnaise, pesto, cornbread - all delicious - I make these all the time! Figs in honey and wine - amazing, and ridiculously easy (most of his recipes seem to be quite easy and foolproof). I saved the extra fig/honey/wine syrup - it was a beautiful pink color, and served it on vanilla ice cream later. My chef friends used the recipe for chocolate hazelnut cake to make my birthday cake and *everyone* loved it, gluten-free or not. In fact, the same couple (they own a wonderful fine dining restaurant here) asked to borrow the book from me later - they don't eat gluten-free but really admired the recipes. And yesterday I made the swordfish in caper and tomato sauce. Really really good! and easy!

This is simply the best gluten-free cookbook out there. I wish he had a followup. I would buy it without hesitation. (oh, the other commenter is right - look out for the one recipe that calls for beer - use a gluten-free beer, and maybe substitute for blue cheese also if you're worried about that.) You will eat well with this cookbook.

I LOVE this book because it uses real-world ingredients you can find at your local grocery store. Yes, some of the recipes are a bit labor intensive, but I've been able to speed up some of the steps by using my Vitamix. You could probably do the same with an ordinary food processor. I've made five things so far, and my family has loved them all.

If you are looking for some adventurous gourmet gluten-free recipes, appropriate for entertaining, this book would be great. If you are looking for everyday recipes that are quick and easy to prepare--which unfortunately is what I was looking for when I bought it--then this isn't the book for you. Selections like braised lamb with eggplant, pate-stuffed pork tenderloin, and guacamole mousse are good examples of the types of recipes you will find here. In other words, these recipes are quite elaborate and require non-everyday ingredients, so I would not call this a family-oriented cookbook. That being said, it is certainly a very attractive book, and the recipes are clearly and concisely presented. All in all perhaps the title of the book is what is most misleading. As a gourmet book it does offer some interesting combinations of ingredients, and can certainly bring a little spice into the gluten-free diet.