The Mayo Clinic W/S Cookbook

I accidentally got this book through a book club. I dreaded a "healthy" cookbook. As I flipped through, every full color photo looked more delicious than the last. I have made more than 15 or 20 of the recipies in this book. I have only made one thing that I didn't throughly enjoy! The sidebars of helpful tips and informtion about foods you thought you knew are excellent! The vegetarian dishes are also loved by my hard-to-please vegetarian sister! Nothing is bland as you would fear. Everyone always wants to know "what smells SO good" when I cook using these recipies. My book is falling apart from use, and it is not even a year old, yet! Highly recommended!

I have been cooking vegetarian for 20 years and here is a new book to excite me with not only new recipes but easy to prepare, delicious, and healthy recipes. Easy, because they use familiar ingredients and keep them to a minimum. Delicious, because the flavors are intense and exciting - and all without adding any salt! Healthy, because they feature vegetables, fruits, and grains and give all nutritional information for each recipe. Also, I love having a full color picture of every recipe and this book provides that. It was enough for me to browse through the pages to decide that this was a book which was going to enlighten me. I am not disappointed. After trying 5 recipes so far and my husband and I relishing each one of them, I feel I have purchased a book worth its price. There are chapters which use meat and fish, but they are mostly set aside in their own sections from the vegetable and grain dishes so a vegetarian can call this book her own. I reccommend it to everyone and am now purchasing one for my mother as a gift.

Absolutely beautiful dishes you can't believe you made yourself in a fairly short time frame! The best part is eating healthy and it tastes great.I've made recipes from this book for two weeks now and haven't missed meat at all. Just bought one for my mother and she bought one for a friend. Highly recommended especially for the host or hostess that likes to make an excellent presentation and impression!

Yes, you won't like this book if a Value Meal is your idea of good eats, but if you are interested in providing healthy meals for your family while introducing them to varied foods then this is the book for you. Too many Americans turn their noses up at 'healthy food' because they have never had them prepared for them in a delicious and eye-catching manner. This book was enough for me to try brussels sprouts for the first time. Americans need more books that make healthy food palpatable. This generation of Americans continues to eat 'crap' because that what has been served to them. Break the cycle by preparing things from this book!