Laurie David

This cookbook is a wonderful resource for anyone looking for healthy recipes to try, whether for kids, a significant other, or just for yourself. An introduction includes compelling information for anyone interested in the hidden and un-healthy additions to the food much of America is eating. What follows is a beautifully made cookbook with tasty recipes, kid-friendly tips, and healthy ideas that you can trust are good for you.

Sarah M. / Marathon County Public Library
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I have skimmed through this book a few times since I got it for Christmas almost a year ago. There are probably some good recipes here, and I liked a few of the ideas, but it's poorly organized (shrimp cakes in the slow cooking section?) and visually hard to read with its many-colored multiple fonts and scattered tip boxes.

What really put me off, though, was the serious rich-people bias. Laurie David, when pressed for time just hired someone to do the cooking for her. Great. So not my reality. She could have drawn some examples of family dinners from the less affluent as well as (or even instead of?) herself and the Kennedys. I do think it's good that she had a section on divorce, though, which is one way of addressing the diversity of families' situations.

I'm not throwing the book away yet, but I am moving it out of the kitchen.… (meer)