Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #521 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781552100684
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"...fresh approach...very readable and accessible presentation of the preliminary practices.... Cortland Dahl has given Dzogchen practitioners a very useful text for starting to work with the preliminary practices and has given others a very accessible presentation of the Khandro Nyingtik preliminary practices - anything that helps this wonderful tradition to survive and grow is most welcome."--The Middle Way --The Middle Way February 2009

Customer Reviews

Nutritional value mistakes, high fat, difficult ingredients, confused
I browsed the book at the store and saw a number of interesting recipes, so I bought it. I started reading it in detail at home and noticed immediately that the "Clean Granola" seemed to be relatively low in calories for 2/3 cup (208 calories, it states) while containing a large amount of nuts. Nuts are high in fat, so there had to be a mistake. Sure enough. I took the time to slowly find all caloric values for the endless list of ingredients, and when it was all added up and then divided to the specified amount of 2/3 cup, my calculator came up with ALMOST DOUBLE THE CALORIES. All I can say to this is if you sell a diet book that people believe to be the last diet they will ever be on, please be accurate!

A very small complaint... if it's got to be healthy and clean, why not inform the reader that UNsulphured dried fruits are widely available and much healthier?

And who can afford bison? Beef is getting almost too expensive, leave alone bison!

How about this one: page 45 "Coconut oil is valued by chefs for its high smoke point...", then on page 113 appears a chart showing coconut oil to have one of the lowest smoke points. So which is it????

If there are mistakes that a layperson like myself can easily pick out, how many more mistakes are there that I haven't found and furthermore, CAN I TRUST THIS BOOK AT ALL?

Many recipes contain odd ingredients... orange blossom water, for instance. I can't think of a shop to find that in, not living in the city, not living in a high income, gourmet-yuppie area... I'm beginning to suspect that there was a bit of desperation for new recipes for yet another new book in the Eat Clean series. That would explain why recipes from the other Eat Clean Diet Cookbook are repeated here (at least it's honestly stated) Maybe there were too many books published too fast to remain true to the cause. At least Oxygen magazine seems to suggest that there is a real cause, i.e. helping women achieve a healthy lifestyle for the rest of their soon-to-be-skinny lives. But then again, Tosca Reno is married to the publisher...

So, overall only two stars. There are some recipes that aren't going to break the bank with ingredients I can find easily; if it's important enough I will doublecheck the nutritional info to make sure the dish doesn't put me over my caloric and fat allowances. But, for all the hype about the new Tosca book.... well, nuff said.

Great for Vegetarians & Vegans!
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!!!

Beautiful enough to be a coffee table book, and filled with unique recipes in a comprehensive layout!
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.