Product Description

Nearly 900 kitchen-tested recipes, about three times as many as most cookbooks, offer great taste, good nutrition, and simplicity.Complete, easy-to-read nutrient analysis with each recipe lets you know just how healthy your favorite Cooking Light recipes are.Hundreds of food preparation tips, step-by-step photos, food facts, and menu suggestions, plus three different cross-referenced indexes make finding every recipe a cinch.A companion web site will offer the reader interactive capabilities such as archival searches, rating recipes, and other enhanced features.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #186862 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

From the Publisher
Cooking Light has compiled a year’s worth of recipes from the 2000 issues of the magazine. The result is one of the largest Cooking Light recipe books, with a variety of menus and tips for the health conscious reader. Special chapters are included to highlight favorite columns from the magazine: Inspired Vegetarian and Cooking Class. This is the most extensive light menu cookbook available on the market today.

Customer Reviews

An essential book in my kitchen
I buy the Cooking Light Annual Recipe collections religiously and each volume since 1997 occupies an easily accessible shelf in my kitchen. I still enjoy the magazine but these books are great for those nights when you want to do something different with the chicken (or whatever).

After four months, I doubt this will be my most used volume. CL has gotten a bit fancier each year and I still turn to earlier volumes when I want a light version of everyday fare. What's really missing from this book (or their internet site) is a five star index. The book includes indexes for name, main ingredients and order of appearance. My wish -- an index by cuisine since I love Asian food.

Bottom line: Not necessarily a book for dieters but a good resource for people seeking to eat and live in a healthy manner.

Excellent, easy recipes - most are fabulous
I've tried several of the recipes. The Angel Food Tira Misou Torte is divine. All low in fat and high in taste. I served several recipes at potlucks and I got raves, no one knew they were light recipes.

The index is not very good and it could use more photographs.

Disapointed
As a subscriber to Cooking Light, I was very disapointed in the year end book. There are very few pictures in the book, maybe one for every 20 recipies. I would rather continue to clip the recipies out of the magazine and get all the hints and pictures.