A beautifully designed book that combines Ho’s sulfur diet suggestions with medical science, and offers plenty of recipes...
Ho’s (Eat Your Way to Lighter Skin, 2008) new diet cookbook presents recipes designed to improve health and the vitality of the skin.
The book is a mix of medical precepts, appealing photography and recipes, the last of which are fairly standard diet fare but are also quite tasty, with both vegetarian and nonvegetarian options. A lengthy opener expresses Ho’s research in the fields of diet and rejuvenating the skin, but mostly falls back on the usual sorts of advice one finds in low-fat cookbooks (eat mostly raw foods, don’t add more than one fat to a dish, etc.). Ho dedicates significant sections of the book to colorful photos of various vegetables and other foods that contain large amounts of the author’s wonder element—sulfur. She claims that sulfur is the secret to having a better life and better body, with particular emphasis on the skin. Once the book lays the groundwork for its sulfur-rich strategy, it moves into the recipes, which are delicious and have very low calorie counts. In addition, Ho’s suggestions of possible diets featuring her recipes make for well-balanced meals. The ingredients in the various recipes occasionally skew toward the obscure, but for the most part they’re items that should be available in any supermarket or already present in most kitchens. In particular, Ho’s ideas for breakfast use fruit in intriguing ways and will make for nice supplements to most chefs’ breakfast preparations. The material on rejuvenating the skin and the benefits of sulfur weaves its way through the entire book, but the recipes themselves stand out from the work’s more prosaic trappings.
A beautifully designed book that combines Ho’s sulfur diet suggestions with medical science, and offers plenty of recipes for readers to add to their cooking repertoire.Pub Date: Aug. 14, 2010
ISBN: 978-0979210372
Page Count: 320
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: Feb. 3, 2011
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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