FRANCINE PRINCE'S NEW DIET FOR LIFE COOKBOOK

by Francine Prince ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 1989

In this latest of her self-promoting cookbooks, Prince (Francine Prince's Vitamin Diet, 1982) talks as if she invented the concept of tasty and healthful eating, calls her cooking ""haute cuisine"" (it's a far cry) and ""gourmet food"" (read contrived), and touts the ""newness"" of an approach that is being done to death. Taking her lead from the Surgeon General's conservative 1988 report, she eats meat frequently, uses some cream, butter, and eggs and lots of Parmesan cheese--the last, incidentally, sometimes combined with another of her ubiquitous ingredients, curry powder. As with numerous other health-oriented cookbooks, fruit juices are also poured, into everything from muffins to veal chops. Sure, you could find some usable low-fat solutions here, but we are already oversupplied with fruit-sweetened, curry-powdered, oat-breaded creations, and putting back some of the forbidden fat hardly seems an advance.

Pub Date: Jan. 16, 1989

ISBN: 0595135471

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1989

Categories: NONFICTION