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Eat This Not That!: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!
David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding
Rodale Books, 2007
I never knew
I never knew how much really bad for you food is out there for the taking in restaurants and more. The book enlightened me to think about the food before I order. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
Anthony Bourdain
Harper Perennial, 2007
Good Book Now Even Better
For anyone who's ever done any kind of commercial cooking this book, and it's earlier version, is a MUST read. I'm a retired line cook and I can assure all potential readers that Tony knows of what he speaks. For 'civilians', the avid home cook or the addicted ...
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting ...
Bill Buford
Vintage, 2007
Very entertaining
Bill Buford writes a highly entertaining book. Heat is good for 3 reasons.
One, Bill is humble. It's very easy to forget that the author was an editor for the New Yorker. It's also very easy to forget how successful/famous Mario Batali and his restaurants are; ...
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2005
Unexpected, but enjoyable.
I will warn all of you future readers: this is a great book and is rather historical in content. Contrary to my common thought that this whole book was bashing the fast food industry, it really did neither. Instead he really shows how fast food originated, how it ...
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Weight Watchers Take-Out Tonight! : 150+ Restaurant Favorites to Make at Home--All 8 POINTS or Less
Weight Watchers
Fireside, 2003
Great Replacement Recipes!
This recipe has all kinds of great recipes. When I started dieting, I was disappointed that I had to give up several of my favorite asian and italian recipes. This great cookbook has several healthy versions of these recipes including general tso's chicken and orange ...
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The French Laundry Cookbook
Thomas Keller
Artisan, 1999
Great
This is book is amazing. It came just as described and shipping was on time. I'm so glad that it was all wrapped up as promised in the original plastic seal.
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The South Beach Diet Dining Guide: Your Reference Guide to Restaurants Across America (The South Beach Diet)
Arthur Agatston
Rodale Books, 2005
Doesn't feel like a diet at all...
A supplement to the South Beach diet, this list of chain restaurants and their menus helps make the South Beach plan not feel like a diet at all
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The Biggest Loser Calorie Counter: The Quick and Easy Guide to Thousands of Foods from Grocery Stores and ...
The Biggest Loser Experts And Cast
Rodale Press, 2006
Get It- and Be the Biggest Winner
The first 27 pages of this book consist of "tips" for losing weight. This includes things such as:
-the Biggest Loser diet in a nutshell
-how to keep a food journal
-how to read labels
-a section where the Biggest Losers from the show share their favorite foods ...
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Crack the Fat-Loss Code
Wendy Chant
McGraw-Hill, 2008
Hungry for a better plan?
Wendy's Plan Really Works.
Wendy's tenets:
1. Protect and Support Muscle
2. Level Blood Sugar
3. Create and Energy Deficit
4. Produce Heat
5. Manipulate Energy Stores
I purchased and read Wendy's book in the same night. I was hungry for a way to eat right ...
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Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
Clotilde Dusoulier
Broadway, 2008
Never steered us wrong!
Just returned from our first trip to Paris and ate at about 7-8 of the recommended restaurants/shops in this book. EVERY recommendation was perfect; I don't think I've ever had a travel guidebook that seemed so spot on! The shops Ms Dusoulier mentions are charming ...
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Jennifer 8 Lee
Twelve, 2008
Lively, bright, readable, entertaining, educational, enlarging
The opening chapters of this book by Jenneifer 8. Lee have a merry verve. Who invented chop suey, a dish unknown in China? Who was this General Tso, anyway? (A Chinese Colonel Sanders, perhaps?) Can it be true that Japanese invented the fortune cookie? (Gasp!) ...
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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Great for middle grades
I purchased a set of five of these books for my seventh grade class to read in book groups. This has been one of the biggest hits of the class! EVERYONE wants to read it. (In junior high, this is rare.) Every day, a student approaches me to enthusiastically share a ...
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Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking
Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury USA, 2004
If You Must Have Only One Cook Book Then This Must Be It
That's a big statement but I can tell you with all honesty. This is the best cookbook I've ever read, more importantly it is the best cookbook I've ever USED. And, do I use it often, YES! Here Tony Bourdain shines not only as an amusing and talented writer but exposes ...
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Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants
Alexander Lobrano
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
The next Patricia Wells
20 some years ago Patricia Wells' Food Lovers Guide to Paris changed my approach to dining in Paris, but that source has been woefully absent for some time. Hungry for Paris now has pride of place on my travel bookshelf. First, the writing is so good you almost feel ...
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Zagat 2008 New York City Restaurants (Zagatsurvey)
Zagat Survey, 2007
Great book as always...
This book is awesome!! If you like to go out to eat and try new things this is the book to help guide you. I get one every year and use it all the time. I recommend this book to anyone who goes out to eat in NYC!
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