Norwitz Notions

I like Ann Gittleman. She is the former Pritikin nutritionist who realized that ultra-low fat was not a healthy way to eat and took on her boss in the book Beyond Pritikin. Some of her ideas and viewpoints make a lot of sense and she is willing to forge her own path without getting bogged […]

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Sweet and Natural: More than 120 Sugar-Free and Dairy-Free Desserts
Meredith McCarty
St Martin’s Press, NYC
1999
(this review was written October 8, 2006)

The first thing about the book is that the title is misleading. The recipes are actually vegan, not just dairy-free, and most of them are full to the brim with sugar (not white sugar, but sugar […]

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(This review was written Jan 21, 2007.)
Ethnic Cuisine: The Flavor-Principle Cookbook
by Elisabeth Rozin
Revised edition, 1983 (original 1973)
This is one of those books that all cooks should be exposed to at least once. It organizes the world of food in a completely novel, but understandable, way. The idea is that each cuisine builds off of a […]

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