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	• Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen: 200 Easy Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss Kathleen Daelemans Houghton Mifflin, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the things I especially like about these recipes is that they consider texture to be as key an element as taste, aroma and calories. A lot of the diets forget that. I think that's why liquid diets don't work. Chewing is one of the most satisfying aspects of eating.

The baked asparagus has become one of my all-time favorites. I make it often and have passed on the recipe to many different folks.

I hope that KD includes nutritional information in her next book so that all those whiners would shut up.

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Where are the pictures??

Great recipes, yum yum, but photographs of the completed dishes would have been a huge added bonus.


The Only Effective Way to Loose Weight and Keep it Off

This book is a must-have for Americans who want to loose weight while still enjoying food, one of this country's most misunderstood pleasures. The author is well-informed, intelligent and practical in her approach. It is worth pointing out that her overall philosophy towards weight loss mirrors certain European nations, where better quality of food promotes thin bodies. I had the wonderful opportunity to live in Switzerland for several months, where I lost several pounds. When I returned to the US, the weight just returned. Kathleen helped bring me back to the lesson I had forgotton. Like Kathleen, the Swiss never counted calories or obsessed over food; they just made better choices when eating while not sacraficing taste and even quantity (Kathleen reminded me how a large and interesting salad with a smaller portion of one's usual pasta dish works wonders). Kathleen's book mirrors the truth I learned while living abroad: If we eat better qauilty foods (no more fat-free things and quick-fix diet foods), we will have better bodies. Her book helps outline a true way of life. I agree with the PHD/MD guests she has on her show when they say: Diets make you fat, and a good lifestyle of eating is the answer. Kathleen has truly found it!

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Marvelous Cookbook!

This cookbook is fast becoming one of the staples in my kitchen! I own over 100 cookbooks, and this one is great. I like the way Kathleen presents each recipe, with ideas to 'Morph' or make ahead. Her time saving tips are terrific, especially for those who think that cooking and planning are just too much work. With these recipes, you can still enjoy delicious meals and NOT stuff your body with unnecessary calories. Watching her show on weekends (Food TV) is a great addition to this book, so anyone who is serious about what goes into their bodies will benefit from her cookbook.

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The difference is ... I have actually cooked out of Kathleen's book. The recipes are easy and taste fabulous! I love the short cut tips, the morphs and her mom's tips. Each recipe has really valuable comments on the page.

Not only is this a great book of healthy recipes, but Kathleen provides some very motivating and realistic perspective in the first couple sections. At times I even laughed out loud picturing her and her mom together!

I highly recommend this book!

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