Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5638 EAN: 9780517881224 ISBN: 0517881225 Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: April 19, 1993 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: April 19, 1993 Sales Rank: 81447 Studio: Three Rivers Press
Product DescriptionJulee Rosso, the co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook brings us the cookbook for the '90s, focusing on today's number-one food-health concern: reducing fat. Rosso offers a broad collection of more than 800 delicious and easy, new recipes and a treasure trove of nutritional information, gardening and shopping tips, seasonal and international menus, and food history and lore. Illustrations.
What Others Say
Agree with the other poor ratings
Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking may be useful as a first cook book. Have to agree with another reviewer who has an extensive cook book collection, that Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking is not practical and locating recipes is difficult. Others found errors.
An experienced cook can browse the list of ingredients and method to have a pretty good idea of the outcome. I have not cooked from Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking as I did not find the recipes enticing. I received it as a gift. I find better recipes for my favorite dishes from the numerous online sources.
The quantity of used copies available with some offered as low as $0.01 is an indication of its worth. Great cookbooks, especially those out of print, are a rare find on the used market and would fetch a good price when available. ... Read More
Great Good Food: Lucious Lower Fat Cooking
I bought this cookbook for my daughter for Christmas. She is a gourmet cook. We looked through it together. It has great information for making good, healthy choices in the new year. The recipes sound delicious. She has made many delicious recipes from the Silver Palate Cookbook also.
Should be called Mediocre Bad Food
I bought Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking after using The New Basics as my food bible for years. What a disappointment! I made a baked beans recipe for my son's birthday party that was inedible, and my husband had to run out for canned beans at the last minute. We also made a chestnut-mashed potato recipe that tells you to boil the chestnuts (I was assuming so that then you would peel them), but it didn't say to peel them, how to peel them, if you should peel them. So we put them in the blender, and just followed the recipe, trussting it. What a mess! Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking needs better instructions, and most of the recipes I have prepared aren't very good at all.
a reliable resource for many years
My copy of this cookbook is well-thumbed with pages folded down and notes written in the margins, testifying to its position as my favorite cookbook for well over five years. I entertain friends for dinner on average of once a week, and many of the recipes in Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking have become consistent lower-fat favorites. The breakfast recipes are especially good. The German pancake, morning glory muffins, and raspberry muffins are winners. The all green fruit salad is great, the corn and black bean salad is a never-fail, and the recipe for "A Perfect Little Spanish Cake" is partly why my husband fell in love with me when I made it for him in a heart-shaped pan for Valentine's Day when we were dating! I would never part with this cookbook.
Unreliable
It turns out that this is the public relations member of the Silver Palate team, not the cook. The recipes read well and some turn out to be delicious, but you can't count on it. I, for one, don't have time to spend cooking from a book that I know gives me a fifty-fifty chance for a tasty result and that contains a number of errors. I gave my copy to Goodwill.
