COOKBOOKS--adult (cont.)

***specifically macrobiotic***

The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook--Lerman
Synopsis: An expert chef has combined her own original recipes with those of such luminaries as singer John Denver to create a real community cookbook. Includes recipes by macrobiotic cooking experts Aveline Kushi, Cornelia Aihara, and Julia Ferre, to mention just a few. A delightful resource for people looking for a healthy and delicious blend of East and West cooking.

***specifically McDougall***

The McDougall Health-Supporting Cookbook Vol 1--McDougall

The McDougall Health-Supporting Cookbook Vol 2--McDougall

The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook: Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes or Less.--McDougall

The New McDougall Cookbook--McDougall

The New McDougall Cookbook --McDougall
Synopsis: Three hundred meatless, dairyless, high-carbohydrate, and virtually fat-free recipes comprise this excellent new cookbook by the creators of the McDougall Program. Created and tested by Mary McDougall, these delicious dishes are adapted from a variety of ethnic traditions and offer sensational meals for any time of day.

***specifically meat substitutes***

Cooking With Gluten and Seitan--Bates, Wingate
Synopsis: Gluten is the protein part of the wheat kernel. Seitan is the Asian term for cooked gluten. Often called "wheat meat," it has been a traditional food in Asian countries for hundreds of years. Dorothy Bates, author of five vegetarian cookbooks, teams up with Colby Wingate, a professional seitan-maker, to provide you with all the information you need to create vegetarian versions of your favorite "meat" dishes.

Cooking With Seitan : The Complete Vegetarian 'Wheat-Meat' Cookbook--Jacobs, Kushi
Customer Comment: rating=10: Excellent vegetarian cookbook using an amazing new food The only book of its kind that shows you how to make this amazing new food, seitan, from whole wheat. Also included are recipes for preparing this food if bought already prepared. There are more than 200 recipes from appetizers and soups to main dishes and desserts using this 100% vegetarian delicious whole food.

The TVP Cookbook: Using the Quick-Cooking Meat Substitute--Bates

***specifically Ornish***

Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish: 150 Easy, Low-Fat, High-Flavor Recipes--Ornish
Synopsis: In this bestselling cookbook, the author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease shows readers how to make low-fat cooking fast, delicious,and fun. These 150 easy and extraordinary recipes are low in fat and cholesterol--and high in flavor.

***specifically pressure cooking***

Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure: Two-Hour Taste in Ten Minutes (hardcover)--Sass
Customer Review (rating=*****): "Great, flavorful cooking - healthy and FAST! This is my favorite cookbook, bar none. Sass's recipes are always very flavorful, and she offers a wide variety from which to choose. I'm not vegetarian, so sometimes I add a ham bone to the split pea soup, etc - works great. This is a great cookbook for anyone looking for healthy cooking, and recipes that are ALWAYS SUPER. Plus, who could argue with risotto in 5 minutes?!"

Pressure Cooking the Easy Way: Healthy One-Pot Meals Everyone Will Love --Keane, Chace

The Pressured Cook: Over 75 One-Pot Meals in Minutes Made in Today's 100% Safe Pressure Cookers--Sass
Customer Review (rating=*****): "A great cookbook for busy people! Although I have used and enjoyed other cookbooks by this author, I welcomed a new pressure-cooker cookbook that was not exclusively vegetarian. The recipes are extremely reliable, well-tested, designed to be made quickly and, best of all, the ones I have tried have been terrific. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a busy schedule. My particular favorite is a beef chili recipe that includes dried poblano chiles which gives the dish a deliciously smoky undertone."

***specifically raw foods (minimal cooking)***

Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies--Soria
Customer Comment (rating=****): The best of both worlds (raw and cooked). If you are looking for excellent raw cuisine, or if you are interested in great vegan recipes, try this book. Having experimented with both for 20 years, I find this book to be among the best in either genre. Almost every recipe I've tried is truly noteworthy, but the living foods recipes stand out as both delicious and easy to prepare. Highly recommended.

Dining in the Raw--Romano
Synopsis: Celebrating the health benefits of raw foods, a noted chef and nutrition expert combines macrobiotic, vegan, allergy-free, and raw-food dietary programs in a guide that explains how raw foods can help control overeating, normalize weight, retard aging, and promote healing.

Hooked on Raw (paperback)--Rhio
Synopsis: Rhio has written a book that is in plain language, easy to read, and a total guide to the Raw and Living Food lifestyle. The first half of the book teaches you from step one all the things you need to know about getting started. The second half of the book contains almost 350 delicious power food recipes designed to please the most finicky palate.

Raw: The Uncook Book (hardcover)--Juliano
Synopsis: Raw offers ultimate pure flavor, thousands of textures, and beautiful effects on body, mind, soul and the environment! This isn't 100 variations of salad, but an ultra-gourmet cuisine, which fuses ancient culinary techniques with a modern and practical lifestyle. From sun-baked pizzas, satisfying sandwiches, vegan sushi, the best burritos and sprouted-rice dishes, to sangria and shakes, cookies, pudding, and pies. You're about to acquaint yourself with the vibrant flavors and miraculous nutrition of plant life in a way you never have before.

The Raw Gourmet--Shannon
Synopsis: Natural, fresh, organic, uncooked and unrefined foods are gifts from nature, providing the body with nutrients to stay healthy and vigorous. Taste and feel the vitality of eating raw foods with The Raw Gourmet's quick enzyme rich, high fiber vegetable dishes, dressings and desserts.

The Uncook Book : Raw Food Adventures to a New Health High--Baker
Author Biography: In 1977, Elizabeth Baker had to decide if she was ready to die. After being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, she decided that she wasn't ready yet-for any early death or more chemical treatments. The first thing she did was change her diet. Mrs. Baker is very much alive today. At a spritely 83 years of age, she isn't about to change the way she eats or stop sharing the good news about raw foods. Thanks to Elizabeth, people all over the world are realizing that the benefits of eating natural, raw food reach far beyond a slender physique. Her message is a balanced body and mind, functioning at optimum levels, attaining the most from the nutrients it receives. Her message is life.

Vibrant Living : A Live Foods Resource and Recipe Book--Levin, Cederquist

***specifically soups***

Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook--Migliaccio
From the Publisher: More than 50 incredible vegetarian soups that have been enjoyed by more than a million delighted customers at Follow Your Heart's famous restaurant: Creamy Potato-Leek Soup, Mushroom Stroganoff Soup, Chili-Style Lentil Soup, Cheesy Tomato Spanish Rice Soup, Popeye's Swee' Pea `n' Olive Oyl Soup simply delicious! Beautifully illustrated.

Soup Alive!--Rosenast
From the Publisher: A new way of preparing delicious vegetarian soups that preserves vital enzymes, vitamins, and other nutrients that are often destroyed by traditional cooking methods. More than 150 outstanding recipes that add delightful variety to your daily intake of fresh foods. The recipes require an absolute minimum of heating of the ingredients yet produce soup that is hot and delicious and satisfying.

Vegetarian Soup Cuisine: 125 Soups and Stews from Around the World--Solomon
Synopsis: Arranged by season, these recipes celebrate the year's various flavors and take advantage of each season's fresh vegetables.

***specifically soy***

Earl Mindell’s Soy Miracle Cookbook: 70 Simple, Tasty Ways to Add Soy Protein to Your Diet--Mindell
Synopsis: The bestselling author of a variety of books on nutrition, including Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible and Earl Mindell's Herb Bible, helps cooks learn to produce simple, delicious dishes using the whole range of soy protein products, including tofu,tempeh, miso, and soy milk.

The Natural Kitchen: Soy: 75 Delicious Ways to Enjoy Nature's Miracle Food--Jacobi
Synopsis: You might think sinfully rich (or fat-laden) when you hear recipes with names like The Creamiest Cheesecake in the World, Wild Mushroom Ragout, Aioli, Broccoli Bisque, Stuffed French Toast, and Blueberry Buttermilk Scones, but all of these (and many more) have been created with soyfoods which are naturally low in fat. Author Dana Jacobi has masterfully married natural ingredients and soy foods to create lusty, rich dishes in The Natural Kitchen: Soy.

New Soy Cookbook: Tempting Recipes for Soybeans, Soy Milk, Tofu, Tempeh, Miso and Soy Sauce--Sass
Synopsis: From the Yoga Journal: "Can we ever have enough good ideas for using tofu, tempeh, and soy milk? Lorna Sass is masterful at making these staples new and exciting again, with the likes of Roasted Potato Salad with Diced Tempeh Italiano and Double Soybean Chili."

Soyfoods Cookery: Your Road to Better Health --Hagler
Customer Review (rating=*****): Great simple healthful recipes !!!! As a long time vegetarian, I am always looking for new soy recipes to EASILY add variety to my diet. Louise Hagler's recipes are easy to follow; use common ingredients and are not complicated BUT taste great -- even to non-vegetarians. I especially appreciate the nutritional information given for every recipe.

Virtues of Soy: A Practical Health Guide and Cookbook (paperback)--Gilbert
Customer Review (rating=*****): "This is the best cookbook I ever read! I love how it was written. The author put together a great deal of information and arranged it in a interesting Q&A format. The recipes are very flavorful, appealing and easy to follow. It's becoming a true favorite in my kitchen. I never realized soy was so versatile and could taste so great! It's proving to be a handy book at my house. I know my family and I will refer back to it time and again. I highly recommend it!"

The Whole Soy Cookbook: 175 delicious, nutritious, easy-to-prepare recipes featuring tofu, tempeh, and various forms of nature's healthiest bean--Greenberg, Hartung
Synopsis: You'll learn how to buy and cook all soy products, including soy milk and flour, tofu, miso paste, textured soy protein, and tempeh. You'll even learn how easy it is to add or substitute healthy soy products for the meat protein in any favorite recipes. (You'll never miss the meat.)

***specifically stevia***

Baking with Stevia: Recipes for the Sweet Leaf (spiral-bound)--Depuydt
Synopsis: A wonderful collection of low-sugar, whole food dessert recipes using an extract of the herb, Stevia rebaudiana as the primary sweetener. Stevia is the safe, natural, super sweet herb from South America. An excellent recipe book for anyone wishing to reduce their consumption of sugars. If you are concerned about too much sugar in your diet and are reluctant to use artificial sweeteners, try these delicious recipes.

Baking with Stevia II: More Recipes for the Sweet Leaf (spiral-bound)--Depuydt
Synopsis: Sixty tested recipes using the naturally sweet herb, Stevia rebaudiana. Contains recipes using the whole, dried herb; herbal concentrate; and herbal extracts. The book contains a full range of dessert and beverage recipes including, muffins, cakes, cookies, bars, puddings, pies, gelatin desserts, toppings, sauces, frozen desserts, and more. Also a list of stevia products, their descriptions and uses, a glossary, baking tips section, directions for making a stevia extract, food substitutions chart, and a resources section.

Stevia: Natures Sweetener (paperback)--Elkins

The Stevia Cookbook: Cooking With Nature's Calorie-Free Sweetener (paperback)--Gates, Sahelian
Customer Comment (rating=****): Just the first part of this book is worth the purchase price. It's time consumers begin demanding stevia on tabletops in restaurants. The first part of this book is a convincing argument for the use of stevia over aspartame, saccharin, and reducing the amount of sugar in the diet. The authors also give great tips on how to make your own concentrated liquid from the leaves or the powdered versions of stevia. I hope all persons who are interested in their own and their family and friends' health will read and use the information in this book.

Stevia Robandiana: Natures Sweet Secret (paperback)--Richard

Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar Free - Naturally! (spiral-bound)--Goettemoeller
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Loved it!!! So far I have only tried one recipe...the apple pie. Everyone loved it. I really like this book because it is completely healthy. Not just sugarless. It also calls for whole food products, not refined. They try and stay away from dairy as much as possible. They give you options just in case you might not like a certain something. Intelligently written.

Sugar-Free Cooking with Stevia: The Naturally Sweet & Calorie-Free Herb (paperback)--Kirkland
Synopsis: Safe and easy to use, you can start cooking with stevia today. Over 200 mouth-watering recipes all with reduced calories! With an easy-to-use conversion chart, you can substitute stevia for sugar or artificial sweeteners in your own recipes. Enjoy beverages, appetizers, main courses, desserts, even candy - all without sugar. Learn how to make sugar-free treats for people with diabetes, hypoglycemia, candidiasis or those that suffer from sugar or artificial sweetener allergies!

***specifically refined-sugar-free***

The Bread Machine Cookbook IV: Whole Grains & Natural Sugars--German

Cooking With Honey: The Natural Way to Health and Better Eating --Paddlewheel Press

The 'I Can't Believe This Has No Sugar' Cookbook--Buhr
Synopsis: Fifty new recipes are included in a revised edition of a popular sugar-free cookbook that includes recipes for Banana-Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Coconut Cake, Spelt Whole Grain Yeast Bread, and 147 other recipes.

Joy With Honey : More Than 200 Delicious Recipes That Make the Most of Nature's Own Sweetener--Mech

Just Naturally Sweet : Recipes Utilizing Honey, Molasses, Sorghum, and Maple Syrup, No Refined Sugar--Mitchell

The Maple Syrup Cookbook--Haedrich
Synopsis: Using maple syrup as the sugar ingredient, this book includes the classics plus relishes, breads, and desserts.

Naturally Sweet Desserts : The Sugar-Free Dessert Cookbook--Weber
Synopsis: Sticky, gooey, sweet desserts are indulgent, unhealthy, and loaded with calories--right? Wrong. Not if you serve the pastries, cakes, pies, shakes, and other goodies included in this creative cookbook. None of the recipes uses refined sugar or processed foods, and few require dairy products.

Sugar-Free Cookbook : Sweet Foods but No Sugar--Horsley

Sweet & Natural Baking : Sugar-Free, Flavorful Desserts from Mani's Bakery--Niall
Synopsis: Carefully detailed instructions should guide you to perfect results for baked desserts, including cookies, muffins, scones, pies and cakes. There are useful descriptions of ingredients to help anyone unfamiliar with using whole grains and sweeteners such as concentrated fruit juice and maple syrup in baking.

***specifically vegan***

150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day--Solomon
Customer Comment (rating=*****): This book lives up to its title. 150 Vegan Favorites by Jay Solomon has made me a success in the kitchen and has made the transition to the vegan lifestyle a breeze. My family members love these dishes and have never asked, "Where's the meat?"

Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies--Soria
Customer Comment (rating=****): The best of both worlds (raw and cooked). If you are looking for excellent raw cuisine, or if you are interested in great vegan recipes, try this book. Having experimented with both for 20 years, I find this book to be among the best in either genre. Almost every recipe I've tried is truly noteworthy, but the living foods recipes stand out as both delicious and easy to prepare. Highly recommended.

The Best in the World: Fast, Healthful Recipes from Exclusive and Out-Of-The Way Restaurants--Barnard
Customer Comment (rating=*****): This book does not disappoint. The soups are flavorful and full-bodied. The entrees are imaginative and satisfying. And the desserts are divine, including a chocolate cake to knock your socks off. This is a sensitive point with me. When I want cake, I want cake....not whole wheat bread pretending to be dessert! I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to eat well without all the guilt of exploiting animals.

Lorna Sass' Short-Cut Vegetarian: Great Taste in No Time--Sass
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Outstanding vegetarian cookbook Like all of Lorna Sass's vegetarian cookbooks, this one is a winner. The recipes are not only very tasty but also easy and quick to prepare--perfect for people on the go. If you only buy one cookbook this year, choose this one!

Recipes for Life: From God's Garden--Malkmus, R.
Customer Comment (rating=*****): Clear and crisp ideas for optimal nutrition. This book answers two questions: "Why should I think about 'nourishment' for life?" and "How do I prepare to have more nourishment in my life?. Good information and the inspiration to follow through. A Biblical approach to nutrition.

The Single Vegan: Simple, Convenient and Appetizing Meals for One--Leneman

Vegetarian Ecstasy: A Healthy Gourmet Celebration of over 250 No Cholesterol, No Dairy, Lowfat Recipes Devoted to Long Life and Good Taste--Levin,Cederquist

Vibrant Living : A Live Foods Resource and Recipe Book--Levin, Cederquist