Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Short, but honest...
  • Funny comic - books Okay
  • Norton in Small Doses
  • read this on the subway
  • It Hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
Jim Norton
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1416950222

Book Description

Jim Norton is a pervert

in the truest sense of the word. The physical equivalent of a tall slug, he pays top dollar for massages with happy endings and is fascinated by shitty sitcoms and fat girls. He is also, at times, racially offensive and morally repugnant. He spares no one in his comedy -- least of all himself.

Now, in this outrageous, blisteringly funny collection of essays, Norton tackles the topics that are near and dear to his heart: from public events like the legendary Voyeur Bus incident on the Opie and Anthony Show, which culminated in all involved being taken to jail, or seeking a hug from his childhood idol Gene Simmons, to deeply private moments, including a teenage Jim's embarrassing poetry-writing attempts while in rehab, and his inexpensive sexual experience with an unwashed MILF (a Monolith I'd Like to Forget). His stories are raw, searingly honest in their attention to detail, and most of all, hilarious.

Filled with personal photos and nearly fifty candid and uncompromising essays, Happy Endings is one of a kind...and probably best read on an empty stomach.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Short, but honest..........2007-10-11

Fans of Jim Norton or Opie & Anthony need not a review to make this purchase.

For those of you that are not fans of the above, skip this one. It is a real and honest look at a comedian that has many issues.

2 out of 5 stars Funny comic - books Okay.......2007-09-23

Out of 5 stars: my Husband gave it 1 or 2. It was a short book, it was funny, 'you need a twisted sense of humor to enjoy it or you will not like the book'. My husband liked it : )

4 out of 5 stars Norton in Small Doses.......2007-09-21

From a female point of view, I don't know how serious to take Jim Norton. I have to take him in small doses although I got through the book rather quickly. Sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's just really sick. This book, though, had me in stitches (most of the time). He phrases his words in such a clever way, you can't help but like his stories. I surely don't recommend this book to the easily offended, but then again why would they even open it? If you know Norton style, you'll laugh so hard you cry and then you'll feel sorry for the poor guy. I was happy to see his stand up this summer on the O&A virus tour because he only spoke for 25 minutes, which was a small enough dose for one night! If he puts out a new DVD or another book, yes I'd probably get it just to see what else Norton can come up with.

5 out of 5 stars read this on the subway.......2007-09-15

only if you're okay with laughing out loud, and having people stare at you.

i have never laughed so hard at a book. it's outrageous and hilarious. nothing short of uneducational. i could not put it down, and was sad when i finished, because it meant doing something productive was inevitable. buy this book, read this book, love this book.

5 out of 5 stars It Hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-09-15

Jim Norton has got to be one of the most Funny and Disturbing comic I have ever listened to. His reading of his book made me laugh so hard it felt like the back of my head was bursting open. No other comic or book has ever done that to me before. I have recommended this to all my friends.
Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Happy Endings
  • Binding made easy.
  • I finally get it!
  • Revised, updated edition of a classic quilter's bible
  • Great ideas
Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt
Mimi Dietrich
Manufacturer: Martingale and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1564775003

Book Description

Happy Endings has taught over a quarter-million readers all they need to know about finishing quilts with style. Now That Patchwork Place's all-time bestseller is updated for a new generation of quilters!

• Presents new information for borders, backings, battings, bindings, and hanging sleeves

• Details creative ways to finish quilts, from easy to advanced, traditional to modern

• Features a new section on choosing, measuring, and constructing quilt borders

• Dozens of new "Happy Ending Hints" are sprinkled throughout the book

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Happy Endings.......2007-02-07

Great informative book. Lots of illustrations and well written "how to" on all bindings. More edges then I knew you could do with a quilt!

4 out of 5 stars Binding made easy........2006-02-17

This book helped me with the binding on my quilt. It was very informative. I would recommend this book to anyone who was looking for help in binding their quilt. It has many different ways to do this.

5 out of 5 stars I finally get it!.......2005-10-07

This book helped me figure out, finally, how to make perfect mitred corners on my quilt binding. For that alone it was worth the price, but it has lots of other great tips and ideas, too, and I'm looking forward to trying those out. The directions are clear, and the diagrams and photos provide good illustration for those of us who are more visually inclined. This classic is a great addition to your quilting library.

5 out of 5 stars Revised, updated edition of a classic quilter's bible.......2003-11-15

This revised, updated edition of a classic quilter's bible covers dozens of creative ways of finishing the edges of a quilt, from easy to advanced. From handling quilt backings and battings to new ideas for borders, Happy Endings is filled with many approaches and ideas - some new, some traditional. An excellent quilter's reference for all levels.

5 out of 5 stars Great ideas.......2003-02-15

This book has lots of great ideas for beginning quilters to understand the variety of bindings one can put on a quilt quite simply. The photo illustrations in this book (almost a pamphlet, really) are beautiful, but are grouped for study.

This book makes me want to get away from the standard bias-mitered bindings.
The Best of Betty Neels: Year's Happy Ending (Harlequin Romance, 2692)
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • Dull as Dishwater
  • Finding love
The Best of Betty Neels: Year's Happy Ending (Harlequin Romance, 2692)
Betty Neels
Manufacturer: Harlequin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0373511620

Book Description

COULD SHE SETTLE FOR LESS THAN LOVE?

Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He scorned her future as a trained nanny destined to spend her life caring for other people's children.

Yet was his proposal any more enticing? All he wanted was a substitute nanny for his young daughter and nothing more. "I won't pretend," he told Deborah candidly. "You see, I think I've forgotten how to love."

Deborah found herself wishing the sultry skies of Portugal's exotic Algarve weren't wasted on such a cynical widower and a dedicated nanny with stars in her eyes.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Dull as Dishwater.......2004-04-09

One of the problems with Harlequin Romances is that the authors were expected to provide a number of books a year even if they had nothing to write about.

I knew I was in trouble with this book when I was 40 pages into it and realized that nothing of any consequence had happened in the last 20. The heroine in this case is the middle class daughter of a bank manager. Her father appears to exist to drive her to and from places. The hero is a certified public accountant.

The heroine is a trained Nanny whose cousin guilts her into taking a temporary job caring for three children whose mother is dealing with her own mother's health crisis. The children are nice, the mother is nice, the grandmother is nice, the servants are nice. After the grandmother gets better they all go to someplace warm for a few weeks. The heroine's father drives her to the air port.

I had my eyes propped open with toothpicks by this point but doggedly went on to finish this book in which nothing much happens at all.

The secret of Romance as a genre is that certain writers have tapped into a powerful fantasy among enough women to sell a steady number of their books. When my mind wandered from the story (frequently) I was trying to figure out who the target audience was. Ms. Neels would have been in her 70's when she wrote this book. The heroine like most of her heroines is old fashioned in her outlook and actions. In Betty Neels books being up to date seems to equate to a loss of morals and manners. Domesticity is seen as the ultimate virtue. My guess is that the audience was supposed to be women of her own age and I would further guess the economic level was probably working class to lower middle class. The servant class and middle class are usually portrayed as honest and hard working. The upper class comes in for knocks. The perfect hero seems to be a professional with a solid income, a house with servants and a nice car or two. Good temperment is optional.

With younger people Neels' charm seems to be a certain camp quality: the lovingly detailed descriptions of meals; how her heroines never blushed, they pinkened; and her fascination with doctors from the Netherlands. At the top of her form she's good, here she isn't.

4 out of 5 stars Finding love.......2002-11-17

OK, the plot description is given in the editoral review. The professor is not a doctor, he's in finance and Deborah is a nanny. The professor, a widower, has a young daughter. Deborah marries him, and then they fall in love. One of the better stories from Ms. Neels and interesting in that the heroine comes from a loving family, and is not dirt poor.
Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society)
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    Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society)
    Ashley Tauchert
    Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 1403997470
    Release Date: 2006-03-02

    Book Description

    We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the "perfect happiness" that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a "prophetic" rather than merely "illusory" answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history.
    So Much For My Happy Ending
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • I really needed this
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    • A nice surprise!
    So Much For My Happy Ending
    Kyra Davis
    Manufacturer: Mira
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 077832351X

    Book Description

    When her boyfriend of three months, Tad Showers, proposes, twenty-six-year-old April thinks that everything in her life is finally falling into place. Between her flaky, tree-hugging mother and her she-devil boss, marriage seems like the place she'll find love and security. Tad's exactly the kind of man April wants: smart, ambitious and wildly romantic.

    But soon after they're married, the honeymoon ends. Tad's crazy, extravagant gestures are starting to look less romantic and more…well, just plain crazy. Is it normal for her husband to never mention his family, rack up secret credit card debt and get less sleep than your average insomniac? Are you still supposed to stand by your man, even if it turns out he isn't who you thought he was? When she promised "for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health," this isn't what she pictured. But sometimes you don't get the life you imagined. And sometimes you have to figure out how to write your own happy ending.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Better than I expected!.......2007-08-22

    It's always nice when you find a book that is better than you expect it to be. I had wavered back and forth for months over whether I wanted to read this book. While I sounded like a great character study, I still wasn't sure.

    I think many readers will have the same response to some of April's early decisions as I did, namely, why would you marry someone you hardly knew? After agreeing to marry Tad, April quickly looses control of her life because she consistently cedes her decision-making powers to Tad. It becomes clear even before their marriage that they really don't know each other, and that Tad is over-the-top.

    However, once they are married, April's reactions begin to make more sense to me. She struggles with how to handle the relationship as Tad's actions and reactions spiral out of control. Particularly, now that they are married, April has to figure out how to deal with a man that she'd walk away from if she were only dating him.

    It is interesting watching April's character grow and develop throughout the book, and I think Davis ended the book in a way that all readers will find satisfying.

    5 out of 5 stars I really needed this.......2007-08-12

    As a 28 year old, single woman, whom has a lot of her stuff together except for the guy, I really identified with April's character. People (that are usually married) tell me all of the time "There more to life than relationships/marriage," "The right guy will come along when you least expect it!" and a whole host of other crap. However, this book really opened my eyes to the potentially darker side of marriage. How well can you really know someone else before you marry them? Or yourself for that matter? And how much do you "owe" the person you're with? Although this book is fiction, I think the underlying message that meshing your life with another person's is not simple provides an actual illustration of those cliche statements, and for the first time, really got me to rethink some of my desires.

    Great book. I recommend it for all single women who think that marriage could possibly solve a lot of their problems.

    5 out of 5 stars Awesome Book.......2007-07-25

    Another amazing book by Kyra Davis! It was kind of slow at the beginning, but i still couldn't put it down! Kyra Davis is definitely my favorite author! I can't wait for her next book to come out in august!

    5 out of 5 stars Good reality check!.......2007-07-22

    I read so many chick lit books with the same old plot and happy ending that this one really stood out for its realism. I think a lot of girls find themselves in a situation where they get caught up in a relationship and begin making bad decisions and ignore their instincts. The consequences are as real and as painful as Kyra Davis describes. I was captivated by the story and found myself laughing as the main character tried to find humor in her situation.

    4 out of 5 stars A nice surprise!.......2006-12-07

    I expected a light read with maybe a bit of intrigue, and was pleased to find so much more. Kyra Davis did an EXCELLENT job writing a story that is both accessible and provocative. This was both a romance and a story about a woman who needed to save herself. I empathized with April Silverperson, it was easy to see how she fell in love with someone who could be so charming and romantic.

    I also thought that the story was very realistic. I have been emotionally close to individuals with bi-polar disorder, and I thought that April's experiences with Tad's behavior, and her reactions, were very realistic. They were right on point for a kind, caring person who didn't really know what was going on with her fiance/husband. I think this is KD's best novel yet. Not too serious to read over the weekend, and not so light as to be passed off as a fluffy romance. Great balance, and my kind of novel.
    From Bad Beginnings to Happy Endings
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      From Bad Beginnings to Happy Endings
      Ed Young
      Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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      ASIN: 0785279520

      Book Description

      Addressing issues such as divorce, change, discipline and sexual temptation, pastor Ed Young draws on Joseph's life to encourage you to confront your own difficulties with confidence.
      They lived happily ever after: Methods for achieving happy endings in coupling
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        They lived happily ever after: Methods for achieving happy endings in coupling
        Leslie Cameron-Bandler
        Manufacturer: Meta Publications
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        Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • A spirited, comprehensive, articulate presentation.
        • Timely and very, very important.
        Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy
        Rebecca Coffey
        Manufacturer: Sidran Press
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        Book Description

        With the electrifying tales of 15 survivors of catastrophic human cruelty at its narrative core, Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy journalistically explores the affects of survivors' stories on compassionate listeners. The result is the first real thinking person's guide to a topic of enormous emotional charge to the friends, family, and therapists of survivors of street crime, racial violence, family violence, sexual assault, incest, war, political terror, and Holocaustand to survivors themselves. Propelled by its riveting survivor testimony (juxtaposed with commentary by social critics and trauma therapists with sometimes uncanny precision), Unspeakable Truths asksindeed, at times forcesits readers to think through the prejudices, fears, and revulsions that most of us have about violence and its victims. By doing so, the book helps readers understand some of what it is that expert trauma therapists do well: Listen to the truths in survivors' tales while accepting as uncertainties the inconsistencies and improbabilities that many contain; provide a rigorously examined trustworthiness upon which the betrayed can rely; and find enough ways to keep their own worlds habitable to provide survivors with honest assurances that life and human interaction can be worthwhile.

        Its almost unfailingly optimistic look at (well practiced) trauma therapy aside, Unspeakable Truths departs admirably from what has become formula for authors of books for the survivor and pro-survivor markets. It clear-headedly examines the recovered memory debate, acknowledging that even the most distinct memories can be false and that bumbling therapists can, indeed, help people remember incidences that never occurred. The book's stated goal in doing so: To guide survivors towards careful, ethical, and eminently sensible trauma therapy and to steer survivors clear of the significant ethical failures of some incautious trauma therapists.

        To its great credit, the book's look at the frailties of survivors' memories and of inexpert trauma therapy is entirely removed from the he said/she said tone that books by Katie Roiphe, Wendy Kaminer, Lawrence Wright, Elizabeth Loftus, Nicholas Spanos, and Michael D. Yapko have taken. Unspeakable Truths's look is wonderfully informed by the author's (Rebecca Coffey, health journalist) reports of her own experience struggling to remain both humanly compassionate and journalistically prudent as she listened to viscerally vivid tales of trauma. Thus, what could have been a hackneyed discussion of already-covered terrain becomes a rather remarkable narrative as Coffey examines the implications, for herself and for survivors and their friends, family, and therapists, of the fact that trauma stories are inherently unbelievable. Listeners bring to the listening a desperate hope that what they are about to hear didn't really happen. The tellers often remain too awash in the emotional aftershocks of trauma to tell a convincing tale.

        Coffey takes her examination of the implications to the limit, and because of that Unspeakable Truths shines a warm spotlight on the potential healing role of listeners, listening, therapists, and therapy. Unspeakable Truths convincingly argues that, as thinking and caring inhabitants of a menacing world, we must all learn to hear unspeakable truths. At the same time that we risk accepting the truths about violence and degradation that survivors' memories hold, we must reasonably engage critical thinking when memories of violence and degradation stretch the limits of our credulity. We owe it to survivors to listen compassionately; we owe it to ourselves to listen prudently. Unlike the pugnaciously phrased criticisms voiced by most books examining the recovered memory debate, Unspeakable Truths's theme of prudent and fully examined compassion is one that offers survivors, their friends, family, and therapists something to embrace.

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars A spirited, comprehensive, articulate presentation........2000-06-06

        In Unspeakable Truths And Happy Endings: Human Cruelty And The New Trauma Therapy, author Rebecca Coffey offers a spirited, comprehensive discussion of the role of mental health professionals who, in an effort to help men and women traumatized by horrific circumstances and events, sometimes destroy their clients families. Yet the value of reviewing past traumatic events such as incest, physical abuse, emotional neglect, adultery, alcoholism, substance addiction, abandonment, etc., in order to make peace with the past is clearly beneficial and a proper aspect of psychological treatment. Unspeakable Truths And Happy Endings takes a nicely balanced view of the roles and limitations of telling, listening, psychotherapy, and psychotherapists in the healing process. Coffey offers a new and more enlightened understanding for psychologists, counselors, and clients that will help to insure a successful outcome to dealing with the unspeakable and be ultimately assured of improved mental health and psychological well-being.

        5 out of 5 stars Timely and very, very important........1998-07-21

        Carefully researched and beautifully written, UnspeakableTruths and Happy Endings is perhaps the most understandable andconvincing coverage of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to appear to date. Author Rebecca Coffey transcribes vividly and in depth, and with compassion and balance, several troubling, heartrending tales of human cruelty, analyzing their consequences, placing them in context in view of the heated debate that surrounds PTSD. She has done us all a great service with her thoughtful and restrained analysis of the diverse attitudes surrounding this complex issue. With the crush of increasing population upon us, violence induced unresolved stress is rapidly becoming a "need to know" subject for all of us. It won't go away in our lifetime. I heartily recommend this book as more than an introduction. It should be required reading for survival in today's world.
        Great Beginnings, Happy Endings: Hors d'oevres and Desserts for Standing Ovations
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          Great Beginnings, Happy Endings: Hors d'oevres and Desserts for Standing Ovations
          Renny Darling
          Manufacturer: Royal Publishing Co.
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback
          ASIN: B000NLOFL6
          The New Baby: a New Happy Ending Book
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            Jane Carruth
            Manufacturer: Honey Bear Books/ Modern Promotions Publishers
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: 0874492742

            The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook: Two Hundred Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes for the Food Allergic Family
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
            • Whole Food Allergy Cookbook
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            The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook: Two Hundred Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes for the Food Allergic Family
            Cybele Pascal
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            The First Cookbook to Eliminate ALL Eight Allergens Responsible for Ninety Percent of Food Allergies

            - 200 gourmet and homestyle recipes your whole family will absolutely love! - All recipes are free of the top eight allergens: dairy, eggs, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish or shellfish and also refined sugar! - Baked goods are all vegan. - Guide to gluten-free recipes. - Shopping Guide for hard-to-find items. - Food Allergy Information Resource Guide.

            Pineapple Banana Granola * Sweet Potato Cranberry Muffins * Curried Pumpkin Soup * Frisee with Figs, Pear, and Crispy Bacon * Quinoa Tabouli * Polenta Radiatore with Prosciutto, Shitake Mushrooms, and Spinach * Grilled Chicken Breast with Mango Salsa * Creamy Avocado Dressing

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Whole Food Allergy Cookbook.......2007-10-05

            I wish I had discovered this book long ago. I am allergic to peanuts, eggs and corn. Corn is the hardest as it is in everything as citric acid, dextrose, iodized salt, xanthium gum, etc. I only buy ingredients and this book works for me. I'm giving away all the other allergy cookbooks I've bought over the years.

            1 out of 5 stars Not so helpful..........2007-09-24

            I was dissapointed as the baking recipies all need egg replacer. Otherwise the recipies are the same as what I have in an everyday cookbook.

            The brand's being mentioned also aren't readily available in Australia so it is a bit hit and miss with the quantities of replacements.

            5 out of 5 stars Meals for food allergic kids that even adults will want to eat!!.......2007-09-19

            We've made several completely delicious foods from this cookbook - Cauliflower Soup, Orange Zucchini Bread, Banana Bread, Applesauce Oat Raisin Muffins, Shepherd's Pie, Pork Medallions with Raisin Sauce, Granola Bars, and so on. I made notes in the margins of some of the recipes to adjust them for my children's specific tastes (basically, more sweetener in the baked goods), but these are recipes that I enjoy making and that make me feel better about my daughter's food allergies, i.e., "She's not going to be deprived of delicious meals when she is an adult! Look at all this amazing stuff she can eat!"

            So thank you, Cybele, for sharing your cooking expertise with the world of food allergic people.

            5 out of 5 stars A cookbook I am actually using!.......2007-08-13

            While I have been smitten by many cookbooks, each one giving me that initial pang of excitement as I scan the wonderful dishes that could be, there have only been a few that have gone from first viewing to the kitchen within 24 hours. In fact, it had been a long while since I had even tried a new cookbook recipe. Yet, The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook was in my kitchen, already getting into the line of fire (I'm not the tidiest cook) by the day after it arrived. As it happened, there were recipes so simple, so undaunting that I had everything on hand and ready to go.

            I loved the casual tone of this cookbook, and the unpretentious way Cybele Pascal approached recipes that I may have previously found intimidating. She brings a gourmet touch to the world of food allergies that I had yet to see. However, her recipes are surprisingly easy to master, and some are merely great ideas. I was immediately inspired by her Chocolate Covered Raisins recipe, so incredibly simple to make, yet something I had never thought to try at home. My husband adored the Saffron Rice, which offered a delicate touch to our rather meat-heavy dinner.

            As the week progressed, I stepped it up a notch, trialing Raf's Cuban Rice and Beans, the Penne with Cauliflower and Olives, the Falafels (which my husband loved!) and even the Creamy Avocado Chicken Salad (I ran out of lettuce and bread, serving mine over quinoa). With so many "doable" recipes that sound good from the get-go, I have no doubt that this cookbook will continue to see some mileage.

            Every recipe in the Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook is free of the top eight allergens, including eggs, milk, wheat (some recipes do contain gluten in the form of spelt, barley, etc.), tree nuts, and peanuts. There is no need to search through to figure out which recipes work and which don't as with some supposed allergy cookbooks. In fact, Cybele even provides "reverse conversions," telling you how to add back an allergen should it not be a problem for you. The focus is on real food, using whole foods whenever possible, or calling for only "lightly-processed" foods, if you will. To make it a one-stop shop, the cookbook covers recipes for every meal, snacks, and desserts.

            If there were any comment I could make for improvement, it would be to add more specifics and tips. While her recipes are quite friendly to even novice cooks, I did find myself asking questions at a few points. When making the black beans, do I drain the cans or just dump them in? Could I use dried? How much would ½ head of cauliflower be? At my local grocer the conventional head was about half the size of the organic. Also, it is a pet peeve of mine when food processors are called for with no alternative method. One of the recipes I attempted in the blender with absolutely no success, returning to a hand method. This would have been nice to know in advance before I dirtied an appliance. In the end though, I did end up with some pretty tasty dishes!

            There are many cookbooks I have liked, some I have loved, okay even a few that I have hated, but Cybele Pascal actually got me back in the kitchen. Now that is a testimony in itself.

            5 out of 5 stars So, so helpful for gluten free, dairy free cooking.......2007-08-08

            I recently used the "elimination diet" for my family eliminating all of the more common allergens from our diet and trialing them back in to determine food intolerances for each member. This cookbook was critically important in my ability to cook for my family. My kids actually ate the desserts, I was able to substitute a gluten free cake for so many preschool functions - and I discovered the existence of "egg replacer"! The recipes are tasty and I will continue to use this book even though the diet is over and we could add a lot of food back in to our daily routine.

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