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World-Class Diabetic Cooking

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This book fulfills a need in the world of diabetic cookbooks. Nearly all diabetic cookbooks include recipes for traditional American home food cooking (e.g., meatloaf, oven fried chicken, etc.), and after looking through one or two of these books, the recipes become redundant. For diabetics whose tastes are more exotic, prefering the foods of Asia or India for example, diabetic cookbooks offer very little. This book is the exception. Kay Spicer has put together a wonderful collection of recipes that range from Japanese to Italian to Portuguese to Eastern European foods. Some of the ingredients are exotic, but not unfamiliar, to those used to cooking international foods. Hopefully, more international diabetic cookbooks will be produced in the near future. With the increasing number of Latinos and Asians being diagnosed with diabetes, the need definitely exists.

First off, you need to know that I have a hard time with cookbooks that are short on pictures--I need to see the presentation to get inspired. So others might think this is a great cookbook, if they don't care about illustration. I found I got lost in a sea of text. There's a wide variety of recipes--lots of Italian, Asian, and South American cooking,among others, that sound like they might be good. The calorie counts are a little high for weight loss--I think this is intended for weight maintenance, and cutting down on carbs. So if you've just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes & need to lose a fair amount of weight, you might want to look elsewhere.