If you are looking for more recipes for your weight loss program, you may want to consider this book. There are over 500 recipes in this book all presented in colored pictures. On this latest edition, the recipes for high fat items are still included like the dips, cream soups dressings and sauces. There are however little variations made on some of these recipes.
As a complete cookbook, it includes a wide range of recipes of poultry, lamb, fish, pasta, shellfish, pork and beef. Helpful tips and nutritional information on each recipe are included and presented in a comprehensive manner. The herbs and spices, exotic mushrooms, capers, olives and anchovies make the recipes more enticing as if you are not on a weight loss program.
What makes the cookbook a bit unique with other cookbooks is that it does not recommend substitutes for the ingredients. For example, the dessert recipes that require sugar do not call for any substitute. The author believes that it is still better to use real ingredients on each recipe even if you are on diet. There are recipes with unusual ingredients that would sometime require you to purchase in specialty stores like the exotic mushrooms.
The book is spiral bound which makes it easier for you to flip on the pages and place it flat on a table.
Although this is generally considered a good cookbook, there are several things that need to be improved if the author would be coming up with another edition:
- It does not provide exact unit of the serving size calculation. It does provide the number of servings but you have to guess whether it would ounces, grams or something else.
- The pages of the book are too thin that each tears easily.
- The typeface of the book is hard to read maybe because of the too colorful background used.
- The layout of the book could have been better presented if the breakdown of the sections is not too wide to open.
