What Else is to Eat?: The Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook

by Linda Marienhoff Coss

Overview

115 Easy, Mouth-Watering Recipes, All Completely Dairy-, Egg- and Nut-Free! No time to fuss? No problem! This fabulous collection of recipes by popular food allergy author Linda Coss was written with your busy lifestyle in mind. With an emphasis on "fast and easy" cooking, the book includes recipes for baked goods, soups and salads, main dishes, side dishes and breakfast foods - all based almost entirely on "normal," easy-to-find ingredients. These are recipes that your entire family will enjoy and your guests will not believe are "allergy-free." This is the milk-, egg- and nut-free food allergy cookbook you have been looking for! Sections include: Tables of Contents & Recipe List, Introduction, Food Allergy Cooking, General Recipe Information, Recommended Equipment, Soups & Salads, Beef, Chicken, Fish, Pasta, Potatoes, Rice, Vegetables, Miscellaneous, Cake, Cookies, Muffins/Quick Breads/Breakfast Foods, Menu Ideas, Glossary, Food Allergy Resources, Measurement Equivalents and Index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780970278524
Publisher:	Plumtree Press
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Pages:	166
Sales rank:	646,436
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

When Linda Coss' oldest son (now a young adult) was first diagnosed with life-threatening food allergies, this was an extremely uncommon and almost unknown condition. Few resources were available, the internet did not really exist, manufacturers were not required to list all ingredients on food packages, and schools had no experience accommodating these children's special needs. It was her experiences in learning to care for - and cook for - her son that motivated Ms. Coss to take action to help others. Since then Linda Coss has written and self-published three books for the food allergy market, and is the founder and leader emeritus of a local food allergy support group (she handed over leadership after 13 years at the helm). Linda also gives presentations to both parents and medical professionals about food allergies and the issues involved in raising severely food-allergic children.

Editorial Reviews

Coss (How To Manage Your Child's Life-Threatening Food Allergies), a mother of children with food allergies, has written her second book on the topic, to address the issues of how to cook without dairy, eggs, or nuts. However, a large proportion of the approximately 120 recipes in this slim volume are for dishes that would not normally contain these basic ingredients anyway (i.e., Chicken Marsala, Roasted Asparagus, etc.). While these items do indeed meet the criteria, they can also be found in a great many other sources. The book does include some introductory information on dealing with food allergies, such as the importance of avoiding cross-contamination in the kitchen, reading package ingredients lists very carefully, and a short list of resources. The most useful chapters are those on baking, which include recipes for cookies, cakes, and quick breads made without eggs, milk, or nuts. A lack of illustrations and no real explanations on how or what to substitute for these allergens make this work less informative and less useful than it would be otherwise. An optional purchase.
—Susan Hurst

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