Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss gives definitive answers to the question, “Why is it so hard to lose weight?” It is because we have missed or ignored the most important pieces in the puzzle of how our bodies determine whether to store or burn fat. Those puzzle pieces are hormones such as insulin, cortisol, [CONTINUE READING]
It’s 5:00 PM. Everyone’s hungry. It’s takeout or fakeout, meaning nuking a processed meal from the freezer. But there’s a third option that doesn’t include processed food or an unhealthy heap of calories and fat—Robin Takes 5. Imagine quickly preparing delicious meals for yourself, your friends, and your family with just 5 fabulous ingredients. Does [CONTINUE READING]
Dec 062011
Real food tastes good, but only if you take the time to enjoy it, to slow down and savor it, not just get it into your stomach as quickly as possible. From the team that brought you SparkPeople.com, America’s #1 weight-loss and fitness site, and the New York Times bestseller The Spark, comes The SparkPeople Cookbook. This practical yet inspirational guide, [CONTINUE READING]
Not only can a plant-based diet be good for health, it can also be easy on the pocketbook. At a time when many people are looking for a way to cut costs, Vegan on $4 a Day will show readers how to forgo expensive processed foods and get the most flavor out of delicious, high-quality [CONTINUE READING]
Nov 232010
Long before award-winning chef Michel Richard made his first cote de boeuf or prepared his first foie gras terrine, he was a pastry chef. In Los Angelos, pastry lovers lined up outside his bakeshop on Wilshire Boulevard, waiting to enjoy the breads and treats they’d heard were the best in town, maybe even better than [CONTINUE READING]
Nov 102010
Denise Burroughs combines her rich Italian heritage with years of southern tradition in Let’s Eat!, her debut cookbook. Her love for cooking shines through in this comprehensive book, suitable for all levels of cooking experience. Let’s Eat! provides readers with simple, inexpensive dishes. Recipes range from “Potato Flake Chicken” to “Chocolate Italian Cookies.” Her strong [CONTINUE READING]
The producer of An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David’s new mission is to help America’s overwhelmed families sit down to a Family Dinner, and she provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so. Laurie David speaks from her own experience confronting the challenges of raising two teenage girls. Today’s parents have lots to [CONTINUE READING]
Oct 182010
Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Avis at She Reads and Reads. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who are [CONTINUE READING]
Fifty years ago, Peg Bracken wrote THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK – and helped change women’s lives forever. At that time her message was a revolutionary one for housewives: You don’t need to spend all day in the kitchen to host parties or feed your family. Cooking can be easy and, more important, it’s [CONTINUE READING]
