| With simple-to-prepare yet exotic and delicious recipes such as Moroccan Pumpkin Soup and Roasted Bison Tenderloin with Apple Butter Sauce, Tosca shows us that eating clean can be as delicious and stimulating to the palate as it is satisfying and beneficial. She teases your tastebuds and challenges your preconceptions, but she also understands that time is a precious commodity, so her recipes are easy to prepare. Get: Over 150 delicious recipes, each with a gorgeous, mouth-watering full-page photo by renowned food photographer Donna Griffith; The finest foods the world has to offer, with simple instructions for preparation; Inspiring lifestyle photographs of Tosca; Tips, tricks, advice and information for those new to the art of cooking. |
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 Beautiful enough to be a coffee table book, and filled with unique recipes in a comprehensive layout! |
| Review Date: November 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Susan Schenck, San Diego, CA |
Tosca's book is a beautiful treasure, with its slick thick paper and stunning photos--enough so to be a coffee table book. The Eat Clean diet is basically getting back to whole foods and making things from scratch, thus avoiding so many of the toxic preservatives as well as excitotoxins that food companies put in food to make them addictive. Tosca uses sea salt in her recipes, which is much more healthful than table salt. (Although she uses agave instead of sugar, its healthfulness is now questionable.) She also uses many herbs. Everything is fresh!
As the author of a raw food book, I enjoy seeing what is out there in the cooked world so I can make even more nutritious raw food versions. I found plenty of inspiration in this book. To my delight, some of the recipes are already raw! The book contains over 150 recipes. The chapters contain recipes from the following food categories: breakfast dishes; salads, grains and pilafs; appetizers; soups & stews; recipes from foods from her garden; entrees; baked goods & treats. The final chapter contains recipes from a party menu. Among those recipes is a most delicious one for kale chips (a favorite one I make in my dehydrator instead of the oven.)
Most noteworthy is how the information is presented for each recipe. The title is at the top, and just below are the prep time, cook time and yield. Below that is a list of ingredients needed. To make it easier to skim, the food itself is in a distinct color whereas the amount (ex: "tsp", "ml") and other info (ex: "with leaves") is in black. This way you can quickly see which ingredients you need to shop for. To the right of the ingredients is a paragraph about the main food or recipe. Below that are the step by step instructions for preparation. Finally, at the bottom is a listing of the nutritional value for one serving (usually one cup). This includes the calories; grams of protein, carbohydrates, fats, sugars; grams of fiber, trans fat, saturated fat; mg of cholesterol and sodium. Sometimes there are tips related to this dish as well. On the opposite page is a stunning colored photo of the dish. Sometimes there small information boxes above the colored photo, telling you for example which condiments to use with the dish, how to serve it, or other info on the dish.
Scattered throughout the book are 2-page information boxes with topics such as the health benefits of using herbs in cooking, specialty oils (such as pumpkinseed or avocado oil), the magic of mushrooms, and cooking game and other lean meats. The last page has a handy conversion table of liquid or volume measurements and dry or weight measurements.
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Great for Vegetarians & Vegans!
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| Review Date: November 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: N. Mcdonough, San Diego, CA United States |
| I LOVE this new cookbook! I am a Eat-Clean Diet fan but have since become vegan. Guess what? There are 77 vegan recipes in this book as well as 41 vegetarian recipes. For all of you meat lovers don't worry there are 25 meat dishes as well and some of the vegan/vegetarian recipes could easily have the addition of meat if you wanted. Tosca also uses coconut oil in a few of the recipes and I'm so happy about that because it is such a nutritional powerhouse! Thanks Tosca for another fabulous book!!! |
Excellent Recipes!
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| Review Date: October 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: W. Lee, |
| I got this book just a little while ago and am now obsessed with the recipes & eating clean! Reno's last cookbook was great but this one is even better! I love the Moroccan Pumpkin Soup, especially for a cold fall day and am impressed with the variations she's come up with. I definitely recommend this hardcover book for a gift or anyone looking to eat healthier but not wanting to give up the joy of food! Breakfast style bread pudding anyone?? :) |
Finally found what I was looking for
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| Review Date: November 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michelle Smith, Michigan |
| I bought this book two days ago and have not put it out of site. I LOVE IT. I have been so sick with food intolerances and inflammatory bowel disease that is easily triggered by foods. This book features recipes that are 100% safe for me to eat. There are no processed or packaged ingredients. Everything is prepared in its natural form. I am a registered dietitian and I feel this book would help anyone encompass healthful eating. I cannot say enough positive things about this wonderful book. Thank you to the author. I will look for more of her books in the future. |
Excellent recipes, book arrived damaged
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| Review Date: December 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Amanda L. Valentino, Goodyear, AZ |
The recipes in this book are great. I have one of her earlier books and just got this one for a friend as a christmas present.
The recipes are not necessarily "easy," particularly for a relatively novice chef like myself. However, eating these foods require a certain amount of commitment, and your pantry will need to hold an eclectic variety of very interesting foods (some of which might be difficult to find). This is really more of a lifestyle than just a simple diet. If you are interested in changing the way you shop, eat and think about food, then this book will certainly give you the tools to do so. When I am regularly "eating clean," I feel amazing. It does take some effort; it's not easy. It's a matter of establishing new routines.
As for the recipes in this book, I have made several and they are all absoutely delicous. You don't feel like you are sacrificing anything because you're not. These are not necesarily "low fat" foods, but wholesome unprocessed products that your body will love you for. I make several of her recipes on a regular basis (even if I'm not being as strict as I would like to be). They are just delicious.
The one qualm I have (since this is a gift for a friend) is that the book arrived with some damage to the front cover. I expected better from Amazon.
I reccomend these recipe books. They are good for you AND delicious. What could be better? |
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