Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking)) (Paperback)

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Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too!

This practical, guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. You’ll find out what you can and can’t use in gluten-free cooking, learn to spot the hidden gluten in foods, discover surprising ways to save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight. You’ll also learn how to convert your current favorite recipes to gluten-free delights using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Discover how to:

• Prepare your kitchen for gluten-free cooking
• Shop for gluten-free products
• Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes
• Get the kids involved in gluten-free cooking
• Make any meal gluten free
• Add color and nutrition at the same time
• Cook gluten-free without a recipe
• Do the “impossible”— gluten-free baking
• Make gluten-free sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas
• Create fabulous gluten-free fish, chicken, and meat dishes
• Go gluten-free and vegetarian, too

Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods, kid’s favorites, and ways to eat gluten-free while traveling Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless!

From the Back Cover

More than 150 wheat- and gluten-free recipes

The fun and easy way to cook and eat well sans the gluten!

Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? This practical guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic, healthy dishes, from breakfast to dinner to dessert. You'll understand what you can and can't use in gluten-free cooking, spot the hidden gluten in foods, save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight.

Discover how to:

• Prepare your kitchen

• Shop for gluten-free products

• Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes

• Get the kids involved

• Make any meal gluten-free

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Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (April 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470178108
• ISBN-13: 978-0470178102
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,092 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled by title - much more than just cooking tips, September 20, 2008

By	Bryan T. Van Noy "gluten-free for 8 years" (Southern CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was pleasantly surprised that the book goes far beyond gluten-free cooking tips and recipes. I have read Korn's other 3 books, and all have been tremendously helpful, and even inspiring. The gluten-free diet can be a shocker (give up your beer, your bread, your tasty baked treats, etc.), but the author somehow makes it easy to understand the nuances of this tricky diet. You feel like you are getting one-on-one expert advice in an easygoing, relaxed style. It's weird, but you feel like you know the author after reading the book. The book is even funny.

For anyone starting out on a gluten-free diet, any of Korn's books are winners. If you also like to cook, this is a double dose of education. You will probably refer to it often. Highly recommended on all counts.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but not basic, January 28, 2009

By	Timothy Obrien (Olympia WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies is an OK cookbook, but suffers from an overly chatty and opinionated voice, and in some ways is too advanced and specialized in recipe selection.

Pros: Many recipes, covering a fairly broad selection of recipes. Coverage of most of the basics of adapting from gluten-cooking to gluten-free-cooking, and lots of introduction and supplementary material. Includes a basic GF flour recipe for use or adaptation to virtually all baking projects.

Cons: Very opinionated writing voice, with a lot of sneering at other people's opinions or habits. Strangely for a cookbook, Korn wastes ink talking about how she hates to measure! The recipes do have measurements for those of use she likes to dislike, who actually do want to use a standard amount, but she tends to sneer at the idea. (Measureless cooking using "glops" and "dashes" would be adventurous, since one person's dash is different from another's.)

While there are many recipes, there are some strange choices of dishes; the one that really stands out is the no-sauce pizza. Sauce is generally gluten-free, and the basic American pizza has sauce, so why not do a basic pizza; I'm sure it's easy enough to adapt and just add sauce, but why not give the basic pizza and the specialized one, too?

There's a strong pro-vegetarian, pro-organic ingredient, pro-Paleolithic diet stream running through, and I found it distracting and annoying. Take out all of this unnecessary material and she might have found space to address more basic cooking for the newly gluten-free types who are not used to cooking for themselves in the first place.

So, good information, some very good ideas and material, with some bad writing, annoying voice, and apparently little editorial reigning in.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You wouldn't be a dummy if you bought this book!, May 12, 2009

By	Jen (Toledo, Ohio) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book for my future mother-in-law because I own several "For Dummies" books myself. Don't be fooled by the title, even if you think you are incredibly smart and know all there is to know about Celiac Disease, this book could still teach you a few new things.

The "For Dummies" books are easy to use as reference books because they are so well indexed and also easy to understand as they lack difficult to understand technical jargon without explanation.

My mother-in-law has been living with Celiac Disease for a very long time and has learned to live with it and cook meals for herself. However, after going through this book, she said she had a million post-its marking things in the book already and had already learned about tons of things she wasn't aware of. She also said that she was going to tell her father and other family members who also have the disease, as it is hereditary.

In addition to the great, detailed info the book contains, it also has some very delicious recipes. Just yesterday, I made several of the soups which are all yummy and am now addicted to the South of the Border cheeseball recipe which I make into a dip.

In closing, for the price and the content, you wouldn't be a dummy to purchase this book, I highly recommend it! Have a great day!