From the editors of American Health magazine comes this combination cookbook and food guide, arranged by 27 categories of foods (wheat; the ``new'' grains; soy foods; fish; meat; fruit, etc.), each of which gets a general report on its nutritional or medicinal qualities, then general cooking advice and a sampling of health-conscious recipes—over 250 in all. The division of foods into categories defies logic—along with the broad headings listed above, there are entire separate sections devoted, for example, to mushrooms and ginger—but no harm is done. The nutrition reports are balanced and sensible on such hot topics as meat and coffee, and they generally highlight without exaggeration findings of anticancer and antiheart-disease properties of a whole range of foods. For what it's worth, there's also an interesting list of medicinal values of a variety of herbal teas. The recipes, from various sources (including Marian Burros and the Four Seasons Spa menu), are generally decent and uncomplicated if unexciting—in the aggregate they smack of contrived, service-magazine origins. The book ends with a table of ``profiles,'' one-paragraph descriptions plus nutrient profiles taken from USDA tables, on the foods already covered. Uninspired, but sound and handy. (Sixteen pages of color photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Dec. 5, 1991
ISBN: 0-525-24908-7
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Dutton
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1991
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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