W. H. Macy Family Cookbook 2nd edition by Randy D. Macy

if you're looking for simple, country-style recipes made from readily available ingredients, we have a real jewel for you. Most of the recipes are easy to prepare, do not require lots of exotic or expensive ingredients, and are quite easy on the stomach.

Delightfully illustrated and handwritten in large print, CROCK-IT is filled with an assortment of time-saving recipes that support the busy lifestyles of today without sacrificing nutrition and taste. In addition to soups, stews, and chicken fa-vorites, the eight chapters offer Mexican fare casseroles, vegetarian dishes, and kid pleasers. Be-ginners and experienced cooks alike will enjoy these delicious hassle-free dishes, prepared with ingredients and seasonings found in most kitchens.

Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off Cookbook
Pillsbury Company

The 53-year old Pillsbury Bake-Off competition is still America's most well-known and popular cooking contest. This newly revised volume sums up the accomplishments of talented amateurs, with nearly 400 recipes from past competitions, including recent prize-winning dishes. Lavishly illustrated with mouthwatering photographs, the volume shares a short history and general cooking tips, then delves into the recipes, themselves a portrait of American cooking over the past five decades.

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Creative Cooking for Renal Diabetic Diets

This cookbook was written to add variety and imagination to readers' diets. Favorite everyday and special occasion recipes are given to make meals more pleasurable and the diets easier to follow.. It contains 288 recipes for holidays and entertaining as well as for everyday use. Directions are easy to follow and printed in extra-large type. Recipes are modified for sodium, potassium, protein and fluid control. Index and nutrient analyses are included for individual servings and total recipes

• Paperback
• Publisher: Amer Printing House for Blind;
• ISBN: 9991808817

$60.00

Large Print Cookbook: Simple, Easy-to-Read, Easy-to-Make, Family-Style

Cooking tips and information, plus health notes and suggestions, complement the comprehensive collection of family-tested recipes. It is designed for readability, with very large (30 point copy, 38 point titles) bold, black print on a pale yellow background, a format that has been proven easiest for people with low vision to read. The lay-flat coil binding; large format, dual measurements, U.S. standard and metric are also easy-use features.

• Spiral-bound: 224 pages
• Publisher: Brita Housez; Largeprint edition
• ISBN: 189402222X

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The No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss
American Heart Association

It has over 200 recipes for soups, salad, cassaroles and everything else under the sun to help you eat right. While dieting is neither truly fun or easy, this plan will help keep you on the right track.

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Apple Pie: An American Story
John T. Edge

In Apple Pie, John T. Edge celebrates not only the joys of good eating but also our deep personal associations with our most iconic food. With this book and Fried Chicken, Edge begins a series about our most cherished dishes - served up in smart, funny, and irreverently entertaining narratives - that form an affectionate portrait of our country by way of our bellies. With Apple Pie, he gives us not only a great story, but the fifteen essential recipes for our most beloved dish.

Hamburgers & Fries: An American Story
John T. Edge

An entertaining account of America's best burgers and of the people who serve them, Edge's book reveals the many tantalizing facets of this comfort food. Edge's savory descriptions of these "three-napkin juicy" burgers make even strange creations like the San Antonio bean burger-which is layered with refried beans, corn chips and Cheez Whiz-sound tasty. For readers eager to try some of these concoctions, Edge has included recipes as well as his "Black Book of Burgers," a directory of the burger joints he visited.

Fried Chicken: An American Story

John T. Edge

In addition to traditional Southern fried chicken, the author provides recipes for an Italian-inspired chicken, complete with garlic and herbs, and for a Korean-American dish with fiery hot dipping sauce.

Price: $28.95

Going With The Grain: A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life

Susan Seligson

From the Jordanian desert to Saratoga Springs, New York to Shanagarry, Ireland--is bread. Each chapter is a short story in itself. Most of them tell the tale of a well-traveled soul, filled with wanderlust and obsessed with bread. The staple of every culture she visits, the breads come in every size, color, shape, texture, and flavor imaginable, but the real stories lie in the making and baking.

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The Healthy Kitchen
Andrew Weil, M.D. and Rosie Daley

All of the 135 recipes include nutrition counts (calories, fat, cholesterol, etc.). According to Weil, eating has become yet another stressful activity that must be fit into jam-packed days. To remedy this, Weil and Daley not only offer satisfying recipes that make use of nourishing, readily available ingredients, they give tips on stocking the pantry, preparation, reading food labels and daily menu planning. Recipes include tempting twists on classics (eggs, grilled fish, pasta), to more adventurous items (broccoli pancakes). While miso, tofu and yogurt may not be appetizing to the meat-and-potatoes crowd, others willing to spread their culinary wings will find in these recipes and the authors' enthusiasm for good food a serious incentive to get their daily requirements of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom : Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime in Cooking
Julia Child

Organized by large category and technique, it's a very handy reference guide for anyone reasonably comfortable in the kitchen. Each section contains a master recipe followed by variations. The emphasis is on technique, so if you occasionally find yourself trying to remember at what temperature to best roast a duck, the best way to cook green beans and keep them green, or how to save your hollandaise, then this is the book for you. And what good is a reference guide without an index? As always, Child comes to our rescue with a fantastic, comprehensive index, 19 pages long for 107 pages of text, so we can find the answers to life's burning questions in a flash.

Part of what makes Julia Child such an icon is that she can describe a complicated dish, and in the next breath convince us to make it. Classic Chocolate Mousse, Sabayon, Scalloped Potatoes Savoyarde, and Butterflied Leg of Lamb sound manageable when they follow recipes for Roast Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, and Scrambled Eggs. And with Child's help, they are. "Quick, snappy answers" for both basic and complicated cooking questions make this a work we'll never outgrow.

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No-Fuss Diabetes Recipes for 1 or 2 : 125 Healthy & Delicious Meals and Desserts
Boucher, Hayes, Stephenson

Presents 125 recipes--both traditional and ethnically diverse--that "match good taste with good health" and don't require odd, hard-to-find ingredients. Each major section (breakfast, lunch, dinner) opens with 5 quick recipes that require no more than 8 ingredients and no more than 20 minutes to prepare

Price:$11.53

The South Beach Diet Cookbook
by Arthur S. Agatston

The verdict is in: those simple carbs we've been living on are killing us. For good health, we've got to get our blood sugar under control and stop the incessant cravings. Or so says Dr. Arthur Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet. The first half of the book details the science behind the diet.

The last half of the book covers his three-stage plan; daily diets are mixed with recipes, some of which are from South Beach restaurant chefs.

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The South Beach Diet Quick and Easy Cookbook : 200 Delicious Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less
by Arthur S. Agatston

Our time-strapped culture needs an effective plan for eating healthy meals at home again. Dr. Agatston delivers with 200 brand-new recipes that use 10 or fewer ingredients and require 30 minutes or less of cooking time. The cookbook offers a diverse range of healthy, easy dishes in all categories, including 25 all-new chef recipes from Miami-ara restaurants.

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