Low-Carb Italian Cooking: with The Love Chef [Hardcover]

Francis Anthony (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2004

The time has come for a gourmet complement to the extraordinarily popular low carb, high protein diet popularized by Dr. Atkins. This book includes delicious recipes for such traditional dishes such as Chicken Marsala, Veal Parmesan, and Beef Bracciole, as well as some of the Love Chef's more original recipes, all guaranteed to be delicious!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 274 pages
• Publisher: M.Evans & Company (March 10, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159077020X
• ISBN-13: 978-1590770207
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #881,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low Carb Italian???, September 28, 2004

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WhatTheDormouseSaid (everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Low-Carb Italian Cooking: with The Love Chef (Hardcover)

The title of this book screamed at me to pick it up. Low carb Italian? What the heck would be in it? Soy pasta? Cauliflower "risotto"? What other horrors were waiting between the covers?

Francis Anthony, AKA The Love Chef, is a frequent guest on "Live with Regis and Kelly" (formerly known as "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee", formerly known as "Live with Regis and a bunch of guest hosts while looking for Kelly"). According to the first chapter, TLC (The Love Chef) was a guest on a show along with Dr. Atkins. Atkins told him if he took out the pasta, his recipes would be low carb compatible. TLC admits he isn't a strick Atkins follower, but he does adhere to a low carb life-style.

The recipes range from appetizers to seafood to vegetables to dessert. The nutritional information (cals, fats, protein, carbs, fiber and net carbs) are included with the recipes. Most of the recipes are below 12 net carbs per serving.

The ingredients seem pretty common so there won't be too much difficulty finding them in a typical grocery store. There's not alot of low carb replacement food here, such as soy protein isolate. So don't be surprized when TLC calls for cornstarch or flour. (You can easily replace them with lower carb ingredients if you want.) And there's no low carb pasta recipes either.

6 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Carbs ain't the real concern here, November 13, 2004

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D. Levy (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Low-Carb Italian Cooking: with The Love Chef (Hardcover)

He calls himself "The Love Chef," but this guy's recipes are a real heartbreaker -- or, should I say, a heart-attack waiting to happen. Sure, they're low in carbs, but with many dishes containing more than 50 grams of fat per serving -- some even as high as 90 grams -- that's not amore. Proceed at your own risk, and remember, fettuccine Alfredo is the single worst dish you can have in terms of cholesterol and fat; thanks, Chef Anthony, but I'd rather have a plate full of carb-filled pasta and marinara sauce than the artery-clogging stuff you're selling us.