The Complete Diabetes Cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen
Cooking for a person with diabetes requires an awareness of ingredients and how the body uses them. This can be confusing, but you know you can rely on America’s Test Kitchen to give you all the information you need in a way you can understand, and they’ll help you make delicious dishes along the way, too. Presenting The Complete Diabetes Cookbook: The Healthy Way to Eat the Foods You Love from America’s Test Kitchen!
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This comprehensive cookbook contains a wealth of information as well as 400 recipes (400!) “re-engineered” to be healthful for diabetics without sacrificing flavor. The book’s forward by Dariush Mozaffarian, MD., DrPH, is well worth reading before jumping into the recipes, as he discusses the importance of food in our lives for all sorts of reasons, including health. He and registered dietitian Alicia Romano developed the nutritional parameters for the test cooks at America’s Test Kitchen to use when creating the recipes for this book.
The introductory section of The Complete Diabetes Cookbook is one of the best explanations of diabetes and how food relates to it that I’ve ever read (and I’ve done a lot of reading on the subject). It’s informative, but it also gives hope that diabetes can indeed be controlled, and without giving up the enjoyment of food. The sections on meal planning, plate building, and stocking the pantry are particularly useful.
In typical America’s Test Kitchen style, many recipes In The Complete Diabetes Cookbook involve multiple steps but none are too difficult for a home cook, and the helpful sidebars explain and/or illustrate anything potentially confusing. Likewise, the “Why This Recipe Works” recipe introductions help make sense of the process or ingredients, and the “Notes from the Test Kitchen” segments provide information and details that will carry you far beyond the recipes to developing the knowledge and techniques needed to be confident in the kitchen.
Each recipe has a complete per-serving breakdown of nutritional information, essential for diabetics who monitor their intake of carbs, protein, fats, fiber, etc. In addition, the many recipe variations also include complete nutritional information to keep you on track.
The recipes in The Complete Diabetes Cookbook are designed to be diabetes-friendly but with universal appeal. Although no one in my household has diabetes, many of these recipes will be appearing on our table.
Here’s a tempting sample:
• Homemade Turkey Breakfast Sausage
• Italian Vegetable Soup
• Southwestern Black Bean Salad
• Penne with Butternut Squash and Sage
• Weeknight Skillet Roast Chicken
• Nut-Crusted Cod Fillets
• Roasted Smashed Potatoes
• Maple-Caramel Apples
The Complete Diabetes Cookbook would be a welcome and thoughtful gift for anyone who has diabetes or who cooks for someone who has diabetes, or for any America’s Test Kitchen fan on your list. They’ll thank you and think of you for years to come as they turn to this book over and over again.
Visit America’s Test Kitchen at their website and on social media, including Facebook, too.
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