Techniques of Healthy Cooking
About this product
Choosing a healthy eating pattern is vitally important, as diet directly influences health. From The Culinary Institute of America, Techniques of Healthy Cooking is a comprehensive kitchen reference for understanding nutrition concepts, creating healthy eating patterns, developing healthy recipes and menus, and cooking healthy recipes. From soups, salads, and appetizers to main dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there are nearly 500 recipes with more than 150 four-color photographs of ingredients, techniques, and finished dishes. Read more
Editor's Take
Techniques of Healthy Cooking appears to be a textbook-style cookbook with a strong instructional focus rather than a casual home-cooking guide. Goodreads reviewers describe it as very basic and introductory, while other Goodreads comments praise its straightforwardness, depth of research, and useful recipe modifications and nutrition information.
On review blogs, Titus 2 Homemaker says the book has useful material but would not be the first choice for someone brand-new to cooking, which matches the “textbook” feel seen in other reader comments. KQED describes it as a large, comprehensive volume covering nutrition basics, meal planning, and ways to reduce fat, salt, sugar, and alcohol in recipes.
Overall, the sentiment looks mixed-to-positive: people who want a detailed culinary/nutrition reference seem to value it, while readers looking for a simple beginner cookbook may find it too technical or dense.
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Specifications
| Diet | Healthy |
Product Details
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publication date | February 4, 2013 |
| Edition | 4th |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 576 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0470635436 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0470635438 |
| Item Weight | 4.54 pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.8 x 1.2 x 10.8 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #288,969 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #139 in Professional Cooking (Books) #4,004 in Special Diet Cooking (Books) #5,343 in Culinary Arts & Techniques (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (188) |
