Wholesome Harvest: Cooking With the New Four Food Groups : Grains, Beans, Fruits, and Vegetables [Paperback]

Carol Gelles (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1993

A guide to healthier cooking focuses on the new four food groups--grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables--and features more than 250 recipes. By the author of The Complete Whole Grain Cookbook. 10,000 first printing.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

With a title that cleverly avoids any hint of the vegetarian persuasion, this informative guide to four food groups by dietician Gelles ( The Complete Whole Grain Cookbook ) should appeal to health-minded cooks everywhere. In truth more of a cookbook than a diet or health book, it features quite a bit of good information about nutrition, diet and health, as well as cooking techniques for what appears to be the '90s answer to meat, fish and fowl: the sometimes quirky and yet always nutritionally solid bean. While the writing is straightforward and rather dull, the recipes are stimulating. Some of the best include entrees-- a vegetable sukiyaki, cannellini with fennel and sauteed arugala, couscous with three peppers and Senegal stew with millet. A section on breads and spreads includes tips about inventive, low-fat cottage cheese-based toppings. While the volume's breakfast recipes and menu suggestions are handy, conspicuously missing are recipes for fruit-based desserts. All told, the book's hardy soups and entrees will make it a valuable addition to the expanding shelf for healthful food cookery.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Gelles, a nutritionist and author of The Complete Whole Grain Cookbook ( LJ 10/15/89), provides dozens of high-fiber, low-cholesterol, low-fat recipes developed to accommodate the new basic four food groups plan. These "wholesome" dishes are far from boring, however, and although nutrition information is provided for each, Gelles does not sacrifice flavor or taste to rigid dietary guidelines. All the recipes are meatless, but dishes like Risotto with Fresh Herbs or Madeira Black Bean Soup should appeal to nonvegetarians and vegetarians alike. Far more approachable than Sarah Schlesinger's similar The Garden Variety Cookbook ( LJ 6/15/92), this is recommended for most collections.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bulfinch Pr (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316307572
• ISBN-13: 978-0316307574
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,361,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should still be in print, December 27, 2001

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drariadne (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wholesome Harvest: Cooking With the New Four Food Groups : Grains, Beans, Fruits, and Vegetables (Paperback)

This is a great cookbook. She has tons of healthy recipes that taste good. There is a calorie/nutritional breakdown for each recipe. Many recipes are vegan, and most can be made vegan if one wishes. But, if you are a meat eater, many of these recipes would be great with a smaller serving of meat added; for instance- sausage will go just fine in the Jambalaya recipe. And, of course, all meat eaters could serve these as healthy side dishes.

The recipes aren't terribly innovative or weird, just well planned vegetarian recipes that use natural ingredients to make a great tasting healthy dish.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cookbook I can't do without, June 19, 2009

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Laura B. Mckenzie "Laura Brown Mckenzie" (On a mountain in Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wholesome Harvest: Cooking With the New Four Food Groups : Grains, Beans, Fruits, and Vegetables (Paperback)

I'm not a vegetarian. I eat fish and sometimes chicken. Still, I couldn't do without this cookbook. My copy is in tatters. Pages are taped and battered and of all of my cookbooks, it is the most used ... and loved. Be sure to try the chow mein recipe. Eating the chow mein a few moments ago inspired this review; we have the dish at least once every two weeks. Then again I couldn't do without the ratatouille recipe. The jambalaya recipe is out of this world. Gee whiz, I think I'll have jambalaya for dinner tonight!
Recipes are simple, tasty and very very healthy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wholesome Harvest, January 2, 2012

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Barbara S. Bonnie Miller "BONNIE MILLER" (TOLEDO, OHIO) - See all my reviews
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