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Williams-Sonoma Eating by Color for maximum health: A New Way to Improve Your Diet; 150 delicious ways to expand your palate (Essentials)

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I love this book. The recipes are largely simple and very affordable. It really opened me up to new foods I had never heard of, while bringing back the comfort foods, too.

A few ingredients will take some work to locate (e.g., quinoa). I can usually find them, but I live in a city with both a Wild Oats, a Whole Foods, and a very large local famer's market. If you garden, you can plant and grow most every weird vegetable in this book (e.g., blue potatoes, purple bell peppers), but you'll have to get the seeds or started plants on-line through Burpee or someone.

Many of these recipies contain really hard to find ingredients. However, a lot of them can be substituted. Aside from that, the book is pretty fun. There's lots of uncommon flavor combinations that I definately would not have tried without inspiration. The reason I decided to buy this book is for the "fresh ideas." They are quick and easy side dishes and desserts that i go to frequently when trying to use up produce. The photography in this book makes it fun to flip through.

Interesting approach to gathering recipes. If you are a person who is drawn by color or color combinations this book will facinate you. The chapters are titled by food colors rather than "bread", "soup". Very enjoyable.

Enhanced with beautiful, full-color, photographic images of finished dishes, "Eating By Color For Maximum Health" is a compendium of easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes for a cornucopia of great eating that are as healthy as they are delicious. From Roasted Tuna with Olives, Grapes & Pine Nuts; Grilled Fish Tacos with Green Cabbage Salad; Turkey Sandwiches with Sweet Onions; and Spanish Tortilla with Golden Potatoes; to Baked Stew of Curried Root Vegetables; Lamb Kebabs with Blood Orange Salad; Strawberries in Red Wine; and Oatmeal & Dried Peach Muffins, "Eating By Color For Maximum Health" have dishes that range from the simple to the complex, any of which are suitable for every dining occasion from daily family meals to special event celebratory dining. Simply stated, "Eating By Color For Maximum Health" is an especially recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library cookbook collections.

This book has wonderful ideas for everyday food types. A wonderful addition to a cook's collection for creating appealing foods to eat. A good book to assist in promoting a healthy eating lifestyle.