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Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking: member book reviews

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If you really want to lower your fat intake, you can do worse than this book. The recipes are still reasonably tasty and quite easy to make with normal ingredients - all the dairy is nonfat but you won't have to fill your pantry with diet food.

If you are not interested in your fat intake, don't bother.

(edited 21st October 2012) report

This is a wonderful book with a HUGE variety of recipes. You can always find what you want in this cookbook and there are some excellent recipes.

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I love my cookbooks -- they are like friends in my kitchen -- I read them looking for great recipes, new flavor combos, and useful techniques. The best ones also give me an introduction into the mind of a really creative cook, someone who -- in the pages of the book -- manages to become both teacher and inspiration. For me, anything by Paul Bertolli or Julia, the Zuni Cafe cookbook and Sunday Suppers at Lucques -- these are books and cooks who make me want to go into my kitchen every day of the week.

I also love the kind of cookbook that allows me to get dinner on the table in a hurry if I need to, but without dumbing-down my cooking or overly relying on processed or pre-packaged foods. Joy and the big yellow Gourmet cookbook are ideal in this regard.

This cookbook does not meet either criteria for me. I used it only a few times before removing it from my shelves -- the recipes I tried (this was in the early years of my cooking life) simply didn't work. Looking back from the vantage point of 15+ years of cooking I realize that there were mistakes in those recipes as written on the page. A more experienced cook than I was would have recognized this and inserted the missing step.

If memory serves, I threw this book away rather than pass it on to a friend or used book sale as I didn't want others to have the same disappointing experience. I probably missed a few really great recipes as a result, but in addition to wanting education and inspiration from a cookbook, I need it to be well-tested and reliable.

(edited 2nd February 2010) report

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