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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN num: 9781592402588
ISBN number: 1592402585
Label: Gotham
Manufacturer: Gotham
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: December 28, 2006
Publishing house: Gotham
Sale Popularity Level: 408231
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The Food Network’s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to 'keep the taste while you trim your waist.'
As a pastry chef at Los Angeles’s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content.
Today, he’s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and making flavors sizzle. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook reveals the tricks of his trade, delivering a five-week plan to get menus on track and establish a weight-loss plan you can savor for life.
After telling his own story of sucess and weight loss in the 'Confessions of a Recovering Pastry Chef' chapter, Cruz eases readers into a gradual calorie-reduction plan. He provides five weeks of daily menus that incorporate his own recipes as well as popular commercial foods. By the end of five weeks, readers will have omitted five hundred calories from their daily intake. Tips, such as his 'Chocolate-Chip Cookie Theory,' help readers identify how one deleted menu item can result in big annual calorie savings and sustained weight loss.
Recipes spanning breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, main dishes, and even desserts put the spotlight on Cruz’s world-class cuisine. Chicken parmesan, macaroni and cheese, tortilla casserole, calzones, and even chocolate cake and cheese fries prove that with the right ingredients there is room for indulgence in a healthy diet. Sixteen pages of tempting colour photography complete this savory, surefire package.
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I love these recipes. I have tried quite a few already and haven't found a bad one yet. They are not difficult, they are low fat and they actually taste good and without requiring ingredients that are hard to find. We just had the wildmushroom manicotti and oh my!
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I really like this book. It has a lot of helpful hints and many good recipies. I've tried a couple and they were great.
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This is not just another cookbook for those seeking a healthier diet. Juan Carlos Cruz offers advice, tips, and practical solutions to food dilemmas that those of us who love to eat can use. Far from deprivation, Juan Carlos reassures the reader that you can have that Dove candy piece, or that chocolate cake, with modifications which he provides, that is just as wholesome and delicious as the full sugar/fat variety. I like the recipes, they are easy to follow and do not require trips to Whole Foods to get the ingredients. I would recommend the book, particularly if sugas are your downfall.
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The book is well written with precise menus and recipes. Good weight reducing suggestions. Format and pictures in the book are also well done.
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AS I had expected this one is best for those on a diet and craving some good Southwestern recipes. Great flavors and few exotics, most foods are easy to find and no long lists of ingredients. Best of all, there is a plan and menus to follow with calorie counts....
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