The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Friends, and Healthy Living

by American Cancer Society

Book Overview

Nearly 50 totally new, scrumptious recipes grace the pages of The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook, 2nd Edition. Aspiring chefs and amateur cooks alike will discover more than 250... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944235573
• ISBN13: 9780944235577
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: American Cancer Society
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Cookin

Easy and good cooking, not all fish. Something for everyone in family and they all enjoy it. Not diet, healthy eating.

More than 300 simple, nutritious, delicious, "kitchen cook friendly" recipes

Now in a newly updated and expanded third edition, The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook is packed from cover to cover with more than 300 simple, nutritious, delicious, "kitchen cook friendly" recipes that reflect the latest research and recommendations for healthy eating and healthy living. Some of the dishes are from friends and celebrities in the worlds of entertainment, sports, and business. From appetizers like Ginge3r Steak Rumaki; to soups like Mock Sour Cream; to salads including Vivica Fox's Perfect Caesar Salad; to poultry dishes like Herb-Baked Chicken; to seafood entrees such as Ed Begley Jr.'s New Orleans Catfish; to pastas like Creamy Fettucini with Sun-Dried Tomatoes; to vegetarian dishes like Chinese Meatless Balls; to chili's and stews like Robert Hook's Hot Hollywood Chili; to salsas including Pineapple, Peach, and Jalapeno Salsa; to side dishes featuring Turkish Tomatoes and Rice; to magnificent desserts like Creamy Chocolate Cheesecake, The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook is a compendium of fine dining recipes that will satisfy any appetite and please any palate. Enhanced with "Simple Tips in the Kitchen", budget and "best buy" shopping tips, healthy eating ideas, even quick tricks for judging portion sizes, The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook is an important, popular, and enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal or community library's kitchen cook collection!

From the Publisher:

This new second edition contains 50 new recipes in addition to all the favorites you loved in the original edition! Aspiring chefs and amateur cooks alike will discover more than 250 pages of simple and delicious recipes that will turn healthy eating into a celebration of good food. This new edition provides you and your family with the perfect tools for creating a delectable menu that is as tasty as it is healthy.

Good Resource

I purchased this book to support the American Cancer Society so I wasn't expecting it to be something I could necessarily use. I was pleased to find that in fact it is very good. Yes, as one of the other reviewers notes, it suggests cooking the shrimp too long in one recipe but the majority are solidly conceived and take everyday cooking to a more sophisticated and doable level. This book can be appreciated by beginners and experienced cooks. The recipes emphasize fresh, whole ingredients but occasionally use convenience foods like canned beans. The conversions charts are up-to-date, thorough and user-friendly. I did not need the celebrity pictures and their recipes, but it is nice to know they support a very important cause.

Nice variety of recipes

This book had a nice mix of recipes, and some good ideas for substituting ingredients in some popular recipes such as brownies and cheesecake. Some recipes seemed too tasty to be low fat!