The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook [Hardcover]

Frances Towner Giedt (Author), Bonnie Sanders Polin (Author), Joslin Diabetes Center (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002

Living with diabetes doesn't mean you can't enjoy five-star food. With "The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook," you can savor sophisticated, restaurant-quality cuisine at home while maintaining your blood glucose levels and healthy lifestyle. Award-winning authors Frances Towner Giedt and Bonnie Sanders Polin, Ph.D., and superstar chefs from all over the world, in conjunction with the world-famous Joslin Diabetes Center, have come together to produce a cookbook of extraordinary food for special occasions, specifically for people with diabetes. Here are more than 135 delicious recipes from acclaimed restaurants, each with a nutritional analysis that includes a list of carbohydrates, calories, and Joslin Choices provided by Joslin's nutrition staff. With sumptuous recipes like Spicy Lobster Gazpacho with Avocado Creme Fraiche, Honeyed Alaskan Black Cod over Portobello Mushrooms and Sauteed Spinach, and Chocolate Grand Marnier Souffle with Raspberry Coulis, this book will help you plan for an elegant dinner party or an intimate dinner for two. You'll find menus for a Birthday Party, a Dinner on the Patio, Sunday Dinner with the Family, and even one for a Picnic Before the Concert, and each is accompanied by its Joslin Choices.

"The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook" also offers sidebars on ingredients and mail-order sources for hard-to-find items. Eight pages of gorgeous color photographs will inspire you to head for the kitchen and start cooking. Whether you're living with diabetes or just love fine restaurant food, "The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook" will become a favorite source for delicious meals.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The latest offering from the authors of the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award-winner The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook contains elegant recipes from well-known chefs, each designed to fit the special dietary requirements of diabetics. The recipes are appropriately ambitious, and sometimes rely on costly ingredients, such as the Leek Terrine with Vinaigrette and Truffles, which requires two truffles (although the authors allow for canned if necessary), or the Medallion of Braised Nandu (Ostrich) on Rose-Hip Sauce with Wild Patagonian Mushrooms, Served in a Nest of Whole-Wheat Pasta, whose name says it all. Because these recipes come from the files of internationally renowned chefs, the simple, five-ingredient dish is a rarity (it's opposite is not: a recipe from the Pulse Sports Club would have home cooks making Basil-Orange Oil, Ginger Juice, Spice Powder, Noodle Salad, Tamarind Coulis and Pepper Brunoise-all to dress a top-quality piece of tuna). But it's a pleasure indeed to know that even people with restricted diets can concoct Steamed Cod on Broccoli Mousse with Red Bell Pepper Salsa, Watercress Pesto, Oven-Dried Celery Root, and Balsamic Reduction and not have to worry about excess carbohydrates or calories. In fact, these recipes will work well for anyone, diabetic or not, who longs to cook healthy meals with four-star flair. 8 pages of color illustrations not seen by PW
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From Library Journal

Giedt and Polin, both diabetics themselves, wrote in conjunction with the renowned Joslin Center several other books, including The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook. This time they offer a collection of recipes from an impressive roster of three- and four-star restaurant chefs from around the world, including Michel Gu‚rard, Alice Waters, and many other culinary luminaries. The recipes are sophisticated and elegant-perfect dinner-party fare-but many of them are quite easy to prepare. The authors have grouped main course recipes under "Small Plates" and "Large Plates," along with starters, soups, salads, vegetables and other sides, and desserts. Each recipe, of course, includes nutrition information, and there are many suggested menus scattered throughout. For all subject collections. [Good Cook Book Club alternate.]
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First edition (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743215869
• ISBN-13: 978-0743215862
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,918,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, May 25, 2011

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This review is from: The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook (Paperback)

I've learned to enjoy cooking because of this book. I love that the recipes are geared towards the diabetic community and the food is often better than going out to a restaurant. This book is excellent if you're cooking for others as well.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good...helped a friend, April 23, 2011

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This review is from: The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook (Hardcover)

Love the recipes and it's teaching me how to cook in a few ways. Much better than my mother's or my father's cooking, and respectfully, I'm not Jewish.