Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies or Babbo Cookbook

Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies

Author: Alan L Rubin MD

These recipes transform the typical diabetic diet from bland and blah to “Mmmmmm!” and “Ahhhhh!” Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 2^nd Edition is extensively updated with more than 100 new recipes from great restaurants and great chefs. You’ll discover taste-tempting dishes like Blueberry Almond Pancakes, BBQ Chicken Potato Hash, Beer Braised Pork, Sweet Potato Biscuits, and Chocolate Almond Biscotti. There’s loads of new information about diabetes and the role of diet in managing it, plus:

• Tips on how to fare well with restaurant or fast food fare

• Coverage of ethnic foods, including African-American, Chinese, Italian, French, Indian, Thai, and Mexican

• Info on popular diets, including South Beach, Atkins, Ornish, and others

• Nutrition information and diabetic exchanges for each recipe

• A “visual” guide to portion sizes with comparisons you’ll remember, such as a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse

• The scoop on new artificial sweeteners, including Splenda

• Tips for food shopping, including how to decipher confusing food labels and calculate exchanges

• A Restaurant Travel Guide for 14 cities, including New York, Boston, Chocago, Dallas, Denver, and Nashville

Alan Rubin, M.D. is one of the nation’s leading authorities on diabetes. He wrote the bestselling Diabetes For Dummies, 1^st and 2^nd editions, and the 1^st edition of Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies. While the cooking tips and great recipes will make you thinkhe’s a food guru, the doctor in him comes through. The book includes:

• Updated recommendations for elderly diabetics

• Info especially for pregnant or postmenopausal diabetics

• Ways to promote healthy eating in children

• Exercise advice—just 30 minutes a day protects against the complications of diabetes

With all this information and these recipes, you’ll manage to eat very well while you manage your diabetes!

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Babbo Cookbook

Author: Mario Batali

Some of the most inspired (and acclaimed) Italian food in the country is served at Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village. Diners in this converted town house have come to expect innovative flavors and artful presentations that make the most of seasonal, local, and artisanal ingredients—all with a sensibility that is distinctly Italian. Now home cooks can re-create these showstopping dishes, just as they are served at the restaurant, to win raves of their own.

The Babbo Cookbook is Mario’s biggest yet, filled with 150 recipes that have redefined contemporary Italian cooking. Here for the first time he shares such signature dishes as Mint Love Letters with Spicy Lamb Sausage and Beef Cheek Ravioli, all showcasing his unparalleled ability to reinterpret the Italian culinary tradition in a completely original way. Recipes for dozens of Babbo’s renowned antipasti, many based on fresh seasonal produce, are followed by an alluring collection of pastas; fish, fowl, and meat entrées; and a selection of Babbo’s irresistible dessert offerings. From Grilled Pork Chops with Peaches and Balsamic Vinegar to Spicy Lamb Tartare with Mint Crostini and a Quail Egg and Wild Striped Bass with Charred Leeks and Squid Vinaigrette, The Babbo Cookbook is filled with vibrant, complex flavors that belie their straightforward preparations. Even classic recipes like Bollito Misto and Pappardelle Bolognese come alive again in bright new renditions that delight the palate.

Also included are notes on the unique touches that make a meal at Babbo such a singular diningexperience, from suggestions on wine service to recipes for “predesserts” that smooth the transition from savory to sweet—all representing the distinctive brand of Italian hospitality that has become the Batali trademark.

The Babbo Cookbook is that rarity in the world of restaurant cookbooks: a collection of accessible, appetizing recipes that brings the spirit of a remarkable restaurant into the home kitchen without losing an iota of tantalizing flavor in the translation.

Publishers Weekly

This book reads not only as a guide to modernized Italian cooking, but also as a very successful advertisement for its phenomenally successful namesake New York City restaurant. While it offers recipes for signature dishes such as Mint Love Letters with Spicy Lamb Sausage and Beef Cheek Ravioli, it also includes descriptions of some of the workings of the restaurant, such as a brief essay on the difference between side dishes offered in traditional restaurants in Italy and the side dishes offered at Babbo. The recipes are excellent clearly written and easy to follow and carefully edited for the home cook but some of the ingredients and equipment called for will be difficult for laypeople to acquire, and many recipes are quite complex. Planked King Salmon with Cucumbers and Balsamic Vinegar calls for an 8-by-12-inch cedar plank; Bollito Misto requires calf's tongue, a capon and cotechino sausage. And Marinated Fresh Anchovies with "Giardiniera" and Lobster Oil requires boning fresh anchovies but fails to provide instructions. Still, the mixtures of flavors in dishes such as Whole Roasted Branzino with Braised Fennel and Lemon Oregano Jam and Joe's Veal Chop with Chanterelles, Roasted Garlic, and Campari are irresistible. Desserts follow the same traditional-Italian-with-a-twist formula just as successfully: Olive Oil and Fresh Rosemary Cake is a refreshing version of an Italian "keeping cake," and Pumpkin Cake with Toasted Pine Nuts and Olive Oil Gelato combines traditional flavors in surprising ways. Forecast: This book is as classy and culinarily tempting as the restaurant it represents. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Batali is the co-owner of three New York City restaurants and host of two popular Food Network television series. His first book, Mario Batali Simple Food, presented many of the dishes from his original restaurant, P". Babbo, which he opened in 1998 to great success, is known for its emphasis on organ meats and other specialty cuts, and included here are recipes for Batali's famous Beef Cheek Ravioli, Salted Jellyfish Salad with Golden Tomatoes, and the like. But there are also many recipes for such mouthwatering if less "exotic" dishes as Mint Love Letters (i.e., herbed pasta squares) with Spicy Lamb Sausage and Black Bass in a Lemon Brodetto. Most of the recipes are shown in stunning close-ups, and Batali's "front of the house" partner, Joe Bastianich, provides commentary on serving wine and related topics. Batali's TV series will ensure demand beyond the restaurant's fans; for most collections. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.