Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #224027 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

The Mayo Clinic Williams-Sonoma Cookbook
This became my 84th cookbook two months ago and is already my most used one. I picked it up in a store and could not put it down. The full color photographs of each recipe are very appealing, and each recipe I have tried has turned out delicious and looks exactly like the picture. The recipes are fairly quick and uncomplicated to prepare. The directions are clear and easy to follow. There are Cooking Clinic and Nutrition Note sidebars to help one learn as you go. My husband (a meat and potato man) and I are learning to eat healthier and this book makes it very easy with fabulous recipes like Mustard greens and macaroni, Provencal chicken and fennel, Rosemary lamb and white beans, and Teriyaki vegetable and beef kabobs. We have also loved the vegetable dishes we have tried; Herbed carrot and beet salad, Tender spring peas and asparagus, and Sweet potato casserole. There is even a recipe for Chocolate pudding pie, so eating well is easy with this cookbook!

Awesome!
I accidentally got this book through a book club. I dreaded a "healthy" cookbook. As I flipped through, every full color photo looked more delicious than the last. I have made more than 15 or 20 of the recipies in this book. I have only made one thing that I didn't throughly enjoy! The sidebars of helpful tips and informtion about foods you thought you knew are excellent! The vegetarian dishes are also loved by my hard-to-please vegetarian sister! Nothing is bland as you would fear. Everyone always wants to know "what smells SO good" when I cook using these recipies. My book is falling apart from use, and it is not even a year old, yet! Highly recommended!

Fantastic healthy recipes...but watch that pepper!
The Mayo Clinic Cookbook was given to me as a gift from a friend who also loved it. The recipes have comprehensive nutrition analyses, and a color picture of every dish showing the individual portion size. This is very helpful, you can browse through and see what you're in the mood for. Their preparation times don't seem to correspond to a home kitchen, I wouldn't rely on them. The recipes are all very tasty, but I have found that the assortment of spices they use are very limited. They use black pepper to an extreme. I no longer use a recipe straight from the book without analysing the spices they suggest first. Changing the flavoring with different spices does not affect the nutritional value of the recipe, it just allows you to adapt the flavor to your individual palate. I have been able to control my blood pressure, reduce my blood cholesterol, lose weight, and save money, all by using this cookbook exclusively for three months. Try it. I'm back here to buy three more to give to friends this Christmas!