Nancy's Healthy Kitchen Baking Book [Hardcover]

Nancy Fox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

There are two things that will never go away: the need to cut down on fat, and the craving for sweet desserts. Nancy's Healthy Kitchen allows us to satisfy both diet needs and decadent desires. With over 150 low-fat recipes for every baked-good imaginable, from cakes and cookies to quick breads and muffins, there'll never be a reason to cut out sweets from your diet.

This book features the recipes of Nancy's Healthy Kitchen, a restaurant/bakery in California that sells its own line of packaged cookies that are marketed nationally through retailers including Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Nordstroms, and gourmet stores. Capitalizing on Nancy's brandname recognition, the book will be packaged in the design of her boxed cookies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Diet-conscious types (isn't everyone?) are flipping for the goody baskets from Nancy's Healthy Kitchen in which Nancy Fox has turned her decadent, rich desserts into decadent, low-fat desserts". -- The Hollywood Reporter

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028615875
• ISBN-13: 978-0028615875
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,685,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Healthy is a misnomer, chemical cookery is more like it!, July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nancy's Healthy Kitchen Baking Book (Hardcover)

Nifty packaging but the inclusion of the word "healthy" in the title of this book is somewhat misleading. Few people are likely to say that items like Duncan Hine's cake mixes, Pillsbury dough, instant vanilla pudding, Oreo cookies, Coca-cola, minimarshmallows, maraschino cherries, Cool Whip, M & Ms, Equal, Snackwell's vanilla cookies, or Nabisco Chocolate wafers are healthy and yet these and many other brand-name and/or instant foodstuffs are used in the so-called healthy recipes in this volume.

The reduction in fats and sugars per portion appears to be accomplished mainly by making portion sizes really small...really really small.

My disappointment with this cookbook is huge because, instead of the wholesome healthy baking recipes I had anticipated, there are ingredient lists replete with brand-name refined food products which we normally do not purchase.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good recipes with extremely small portion sizes!, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nancy's Healthy Kitchen Baking Book (Hardcover)

The book is full of good recipes, but it is a trick that they are lowfat and lowcal. For instance, it will say it makes 100 cookies when really it makes about 30 normal size cookies. It makes 100 cookies if they are the size of a pea! I was very disappointed overall with this book, because although the recipes attempt to cut out fat and calories, the trick is that the portion sizes are ridiculous. At first, I thought GREAT, HEALTHY baking! But this turned out to be a falsehood!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff, August 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Nancy's Healthy Kitchen Baking Book (Hardcover)

A freind of mine always made such wonderful treats that were low in fat but didn't taste it. Finally I asked her for the recipies of some of her treats and she got them from this book. I went out and bought the book and have been getting recipe requests as well. A MUST BUY!