Kitchen Doctor Cookbook or Tasty

Kitchen Doctor Cookbook

Author: Jill Scott

The right foods for health, the right diet for your body, the right recipes for your lifestyle. The ultimate guide to healing foods with advice and essential information on food allergies, diabetes, cancer prevention, arthritis and heart disease.

See also: Green Living for Dummies or The Coming Generational Storm

Tasty: Get Great Food on the Table Every Day

Author: Roy Finamor

For the past twenty years, Roy Finamore has shaped America's most popular cookbooks, publishing such influential authors as Martha Stewart, Ina Garten (the Barefoot Contessa), and Lee Bailey and working alongside chefs and other food authorities to help them streamline their recipes. Now, in Tasty, he shows you how to make the most of your time and have fun in the kitchen.

Tasty proves that a meal doesn't need to be showoffy to be uncommonly good. When you serve food from this book, your family and friends will sit up and take notice, and you'll be relaxed and smiling when you sit down at the table. Among the simple but exceptional dishes in Tasty:

Buttermilk Pancakes with Hazelnut Butter: breakfast with a minimum of effort; unbelievably light and fluffy.

Sicilian Spinach Pie: perfect for a lunch or picnic, with the easiest pastry you've ever made.

Fresh Pea Soup: with three common ingredients, it's ready in five minutes.

Chicken Milanese: Crisp chicken and tart salad -- the kind of food you crave when it's hot out.

Pork Roast with Fruit Stuffing: a fine company dish or Sunday supper.

Chinois Noodles: Asian-inspired and equally good warm or cold.

Chocolate Whipped Cream Cake: Whip cream, add eggs and a few dry ingredients, and you've got cake!

As Roy says in his introduction, "Good simple food is meant to be shared and enjoyed. Cook often."

Publishers Weekly

Flipping through Finamore's book, a reader might get the idea that the food the longtime cookbook editor offers is fine, just fine-but that's about it. Cook one of the dishes, though, and the assessment goes from fine to fantastic. The 200 recipes are for the type of fare that's become familiar to many modern home cooks: American cuisine with Italian and French accents, using fresh ingredients and simple preparations. The foods may be recognizable, but they're rarely tired: who, for instance, could argue with the quick and juicy braise that is Pork Chops with Fennel and Tomato, served over Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes, or Chicken Milanese hidden under a tart arugula salad? The author, who has molded texts written by such cookbook legends as Martha Stewart, Ina Garten and Lee Bailey, has a carefree approach to cooking, urging readers to continually taste what they're making and correct seasonings and cooking times, and most of all, not to stress. With weekday and weekend dinner suggestions as well as ideas for breakfasts, lunches, "nibbles," salads and desserts, this cookbook is destined for frequent use. Photos. (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Longtime cookbook editor and author Finamore (One Potato Two Potato) has written a cookbook designed to help busy cooks prepare everyday meals. Chapters cover everything from soups to snacks to what to cook on weekends. Added features include tips on how to vary recipes and suggestions for using leftovers. Family cooks will find the collection to be an intriguing assortment of both familiar recipes, such as one for roast chicken, and the enticingly unfamiliar, such as one for dandelion salad. Finamore deftly balances the use of fresh ingredients with convenient pantry staples, like canned tomatoes. An undertone of comfort and enthusiasm for everyday cooking that runs throughout the book will inspire readers. Instructions are clearly written and easy to follow. A good choice for public libraries that are in the habit of keeping their cookery sections current.-Andrea R. Dietze, Orange Cty. P.L., Santa Ana, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.