Gourmet Nutrition: The Cookbook for the Fit Food Lover [Paperback]

John Berardi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2007

From the creators of Precision Nutrition comes a cookbook for people who love to eat great food, but hate that after-dinner guilt. For those who love to eat with style, but hate to look "indulgent." for those who love to entertain, but want to do it right. Enter Gourmet Nutrition: the cookbook for the fit food lover. We've taken the healthiest ingredients and whipped them into nearly 300 pages of delicious culinary creations that you can serve with confidence to the most discerning foodie -- or the most nitpicky nutritionist. We've included detailed cooking instructions and ideas for improvisation. And we've even photographed every recipe in beautiful color to show you just how appetizing healthy food can be. Gourmet Nutrition is the cookbook that's as friendly to your body as it is to your taste buds, and it's equally at home on your kitchen counter and your coffee table.

Product Details

• Paperback: 247 pages
• Publisher: Precision Nutrition; 1st edition (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097743091X
• ISBN-13: 978-0977430918
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book about cooking, March 12, 2009

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Piotr Lopusiewicz (Poland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gourmet Nutrition: The Cookbook for the Fit Food Lover (Paperback)

This books is the best thing which has ever happened to food lovers. EVERY meal presented in it is super healthy and meets the highest standards of healthy nutrition. You will find meals meeting low carb requirements and the ones with high carbs. All the meals are complete, high in essential healthy fats, good lean source of protein and full of microelements (vitamins etc). The meals are composed from the healthiest things on earth but it doesn't mean they are boring and not tasty, quite the contrary, you will learn that cooking and eating healthy, natural foods is much more pleasant taste experience than traditional "gourmet" meals loaded with things which shouldnt ever find the way to human body.

Highly recommended and real pity that Amazon doesn't ship those for now.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, October 2, 2009

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Corban's Sister "Regan" (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gourmet Nutrition: The Cookbook for the Fit Food Lover (Paperback)

This cookbook is definitely a staple & great tool for achieving a fabulous body!

Here are the things I love about it,

The meals...

-are incredibly healthy

-contain easy to find ingredients

-DON'T contain long lists of ingredients

-taste great

-are meant for mostly 1-2 servings (great for people like me that are cooking for one & don't want to eat the same thing for 4 days)

The book...

-pictures of every recipe

-contains nutritional breakdown for each male (large) & female (small) portions

-offers suggestions for side dishes (I love when cookbooks do this, it makes planning meals so much easier)

-offers suggestions for substitutions that don't radically change the nutrition content

-separates meals into "Anytime" & "Post-workout"

The higher carb meals are the PW meals. Following the suggestion to eat them only after working out is great for losing and maintaining fat loss. I really like that there is no tracking calories or carbs or any kind of tracking/calculating at all! If you eat the AT meals anytime & the PW meals post-workout you won't eat too many carbs or calories, you won't eat too few grams of protein (for muscle maintenance) or calories. So much better than every other cookbook I've ever had where you have to calculate & pick & choose what meals you can eat together on the same day without eating too many calories, carbs or too few calories.

Some minor problems with the book

-typos (the protein content on a couple recipes is the calorie count repeated. But that's easily remedied by subtracting the fat grams * 9 & the carb grams * 4, from the total calorie count)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best cookbook I own!, September 1, 2009

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Bryan "Bryan" (Tampa , FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gourmet Nutrition: The Cookbook for the Fit Food Lover (Paperback)

I've purchased several nutrition-based cookbooks, and I can honestly say that Gourmet Nutrition is the best cookbook on the market. I have owned it for a week and have already tried at least 15-20 of the recipes in the book. I really like the fact that it offers suggestions for pairing basic proteins with 2 different side options - one to eat "anytime" and the other to eat "post workout." The premise being that higher carb meals or snacks should preferably be eaten in the 2-3 hours following a workout. This is when your body is most easily able to tolerate carbs. All in all, it's extremely flexible, the meals are fantastic, and the recipes are simple enough to assemble in 5-20 minutes (depending on the recipe.)