Very Blueberry [Paperback]

Jennifer Trainer Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

Groundbreaking studies show that blueberries contain disease-fighting compounds not found in any other food. The high amounts of antioxidants found in them are believed to have powerful anti-memory-loss and cancer-preventing properties. And, despite their natural sweetness, blueberries are remarkably low in the carbohydrates and sugar calories overabundant in other fruit.

Very Blueberry goes beyond the blueberry muffin (though it does include a sub-lime recipe for it!) and features this essential fruit in innovative new recipes like Goat Cheese Tart with Caramelized Onions and Blueberries; Arugula, Prosciutto, and Blueberry Salad with Honey-Citrus Vinaigrette; Pork Tenderloin with Peach-Blueberry Chutney; and Blueberry Salsa. With this charming, little cookbook, incorporating the recommended half a cup of blueberries into your daily diet will always be a sweet delight.

   • Features more than 40 blueberry recipes for breakfasts, soups, salads, entrées, jams, and gifts.

   • The blueberry is number one in antioxidant activity of all fruits and vegetables. Antioxidants prevent health problems like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, diabetes, circulation problems, and urinary tract infections.

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*Features more than 40 blueberry recipes for breakfasts, soups, salads, entrées, jams, and gifts.

About the Author

JENNIFER TRAINER THOMPSON is the author of the best-selling Beyond Einstein, as well as seven cookbooks. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she and her young family are developing family traditions of their own.

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What's been sitting in the back of your fridge for more than a year?  Armageddon Hot Sauce. It’s made by a former Navy Sea Dog who runs a bar in the Adirondacks that you can only get to by snowmobile in the winter. He marinates chicken wings in this incendiary sauce, and if you can eat a dozen, you get your name on his “Wall of Flame” next to his live tarantula. (I have not succeeded.) Are you "six degrees of separation" away from anyone famous?  Well, my father’s name is Harry Potter Trainer. My kids think it’s pretty cool, and a Boston radio station once reported that Harry Potter was alive and well living in the Bay State. Last year he had stickers made up that say “Harry Potter was here” and leaves them all around – on the examining table at the doctor’s office, on the underside of the toilet seat in my kids’ bathroom, and so on. What was your first job?  My first real job was supposed to be at the U.N., editing a new magazine about the African kingdom of Lesotho. The night before I was to start my job, I got a call that the king had been deposed and the job was off. I already had my car packed, so I moved down to New York anyway, found an apartment in the East Village, and got a job working as a lowly editor’s assistant at Simon & Schuster. I got fired after six months, and my boss told me I should be writing instead – best advice I ever got, and I signed my first book contract several months later.Where were you when you found out your first book would be published? I was in my apartment in the East Village, which had been abandoned by the owner (we tenants were just starting to figure that out because we’d gone over a month with no hot water or heat and the landlord was unresponsive - he was in Hawaii, avoiding city authorities and a jail sentence). It was very cold in the apartment, and I was all bundled up; I remember I was wearing gloves and making myself tea, when I got a call from Carol Houck Smith at W.W. Norton. It was like getting a call from God. She remains a friend to this day. Do you have pets?It’s a joint family effort, led mostly by my nine-year-old son. He has a pet gecko and we also have 5 chickens. We live in a really small town — last year when some dogs crashed through the chicken fencing, our neighbor (thankfully) called the dog officer, who called the chief of police. When the chief of police couldn’t find me, he called my husband’s office and told his secretary to get him out of an important meeting – it was a “chicken emergency.” The girls, as we call them, are good layers, providing us with eggs and atmosphere daily.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587611937
• ISBN-13: 978-1587611933
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 x 5.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #7 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Fruits
  • #56 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Healthy

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, small book is great gift item!, September 7, 2005

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Mark F. Braun (Norridge, IL) - See all my reviews
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I picked up VERY BLUEBERRY as a side sort of gift and ended up buying two others in the series. Priced cheap, this is the sort of small but great book that a child can afford to buy for a teacher, parent or friend who appreciates food. Loaded with ideas and photos, this is like good berries: really sweet stuff.

I really recommend this as an inexpensive, small cookbook for someone who is sensitive to simple eating with awesome flavors. It'll be cherished, and probably used with the next trip to the grocery store.

Mark Braun, Associate Publisher
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Nice, February 9, 2010

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This little book has so many recipes to choose from, like breakfast and dinner recipes, dessert recipes, jam and jelly recipes and everything in between like salads, muffins, etc... all utilizing the amazing blueberry. A really wonderful book to enliven your table and expand your cooking repetoir. Enjoy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Blueberry, September 3, 2011

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TAMMY A. ANDERSON (MIDDLETOWN, CT United States) - See all my reviews

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If you are looking for one place to go for blueberry recipes, this is the place. I think this book has an excellent variety of recipes.