- Paperback: 574 pages
- Publisher: Crown Publications; 1 edition (24 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0517881225
- ISBN-13: 978-0517881224
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,732,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Julee 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.
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Format:Paperback
I fell in love with this book while working in a library in South Africa. I was very pleased to be able to get a copy for myself. There are no glossy photographs but the contect is fantastic
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
This cookbook was a real disappointment
10 Nov 1997
Format:Hardcover
I have an extensive cookbook collection, and Great Good food has been a big disappointment. I have The New Basics and The Silver Palate, and each of them, while not favorites, have provided me with recipes which I have enjoyed. Both are also fairly easy to use. However, Great Good Food has never provided me with anything that I really wanted to make again. Moreover, searching for a particular type of recipe is a chore. Recipes are broken up into "menus" and "seasons". When, for example, I want to look for appetizers or a soup, I don't want to have to spend an hour flipping through the whole book looking to see whether I've missed anything. Convenient it is not.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A disappointment with good intentions
6 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
I looked forward to using this book after many happy explorations with The Silver Palate cook book. I found, however, that Ms. Rosso's recipes are very time-consuming and many of them have very long ingredient lists. It's a pity because I feel she is on the right track, trying to use fresh and essential flavors to create innovative and healthy dishes. I just don't think it needs to be as complicated as she makes it, nor should I feel as exhausted as I do when I cook from this book. I live in a major metropolitan area with ethnically diverse and yuppified food stores -- but even I have to make a trip to two to three supermarkets just to fulfill her recipe requirements!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Can't live without this book
19 April 2001
Format:Paperback
I was thrilled to find Great Good Food. I used to make everything out the of the Silver Palate cookbooks and New Basics. However, all of the recipes were so calorie-laden. So, now I make many of my old favorites only lighter (and better). I also apply her "lightening" methods to recipes from the original books. Rosso's grouping of the recipes by season is nothing new. The Silver Palate Good Times cookbook is also organized in this fashion, and it is rated one of the best cookbooks. Familiarize yourself with the index (very complete), and you will be more than satisfied. As for the ingredients not being readily available, if one does any kind of cooking, these are things that you already have, or needed an excuse to buy.
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