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Watch for flying pigs: here's a weight-loss plan that's sensible and simple. And for those of you who can only think of bacon when the word "pig" is mentioned, prepare to go hog wild: the Volumetrics plan is designed to let you indulge in your favorite goodies every now and then, so you're much more likely to stick to the program. Developed by a nutritionist who has worked with the National Institutes of Health, the Volumetrics plan focuses on foods that are low in "energy density." In other words, fruits, vegetables, and soups—all high in water content—are low in energy density, and therefore allowed in greater quantities. These foods tend to be more filling, so you eat less—and that's how easy weight loss can result. Author Barbara Rolls includes forms for charting one's daily food intake and weight-loss progress, as well as dozens of tempting recipes for the likes of Risotto Primavera and Chicken Fajita Pizza. After years of watching friends remove the buns from their hamburgers and banish croutons from their salads, it's nice to see common sense making a comeback. --Erica Jorgensen
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From Dr. Barbara Rolls, one of America's leading authorities on weight management, comes a much-anticipated lifestyle guide and cookbook that empowers and encourages her readers to quit "dieting" for good, to feel full on fewer calories, and to lose weight and keep it off while eating satisfying portions of delicious, nutritious foods.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan doesn't eliminate food groups or overload you with rules. It's a commonsense approach to eating based on Dr. Rolls's hugely popular Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan and her respected research on satiety that shows you how to choose foods that control hunger while losing weight. Along with menu planners, charts, and sidebars on healthy food choices, the 125 recipes put her revolutionary research into real and tangible instructions for every meal. The full-color photographs make these delicious recipes irresistible.
With this important new guide to healthy eating and living, everyone can enjoy tasty and satisfying meals that will help them maintain their weight or lose those extra pounds while learning the pleasures of cooking the Volumetrics way.
Volumetrics, Dr. Rolls's rigorously tested and proven system for weight management, incorporates sound research findings from around the world into a nutritious plan and shows you how to personalize it to suit your preferences and goals. It's all about choices, and The Volumetrics Eating Plan helps you choose the right foods for every meal and every lifestyle, without giving up flavor or diversity in your diet. No more "forbidden foods" or monotonous meals -- The Volumetrics Eating Plan will revolutionize the way you think about managing your weight and will guide you to a lifetime of healthy food choices.
Customer Reviews:
Waste of time and money!.......2007-10-03
This book is a masterpiece of conveying the obvious and saying it over and over again. I'll save anyone interested in it time and money:
add veggies to everything and you'll have more to eat with little added calories. That's it...the whole book in 14 words (articles and contractions included).
Real Food Comes Directly From God, Not Agribusiness.......2007-09-10
Fresh from the garden and orchard, crunchy and juicy, brilliantly-colored, full of vitamins, and fiber - this most appealing, sane, and sensible diet avoids the highly-processed, high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt pseudo-foods created by the girth merchants who care nothing about your bulk, your blood pressure, your diverticulitis, or your cholesterol levels. Hundreds of easy recipes to help you maintain optimal weight and health.
volumetrics eating plan.......2007-09-03
I listened to the CD while driving out to dinner every night and somehow I started losing weight.
The volumetrics Eating Plan Techniques and Recipes.......2007-09-02
This book was the best weightloss/recipe book I have ever purchased. It is a sensible concept. You don't walk away from the table hungy. The recipes are wholesome ingredients that taste good and are good for you. The soups are delicious, as are all the other recipes. My whole family is benefiting from this book.
Sensible Concept .......2007-08-31
Barbara Rollins puts forth a not altogether original concept to the tune of eating more for less calories. A sort of "Cooking Light" meets "South Beach". There are some good recipes and I especially like that she compares the recipes with pictures and nutritional information side by side.
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Do you overeat because you don't feel satisfied or full? Volumetrics is based on "the science of satiety"--what researchers have learned about the food choices that make people feel full. The authors teach you how to eat low-calorie-dense, high-volume foods so that you feel like you've eaten plenty, even though you've eaten fewer calories. You'll lose weight without feeling hungry or deprived.
Here's an example of how volume affects eating. Raisins are dried grapes. But 100 calories of raisins fill only one-quarter cup, while 100 calories of fresh, whole grapes fill one and two-thirds cups. You'll feel satisfied after one and two-thirds cups of grapes, but if you're eating raisins, you're likely to keep filling your mouth. The point is not to stop eating raisins (or chocolate, cheese, or other high-calorie, low-volume foods), but to realize that you're likely to take in many more calories before your body tells you you're full. If you're trying to manage your weight, eating more low-density foods (lower-calorie foods that have a lot of volume) will make you feel full while you drop pounds.
Barbara Rolls, a respected and well-published food-nutrition researcher at Pennsylvania State University, and food writer Robert Barnett explain energy density and how to use this concept to lose weight. They include the scientific evidence about how low-density (low-calorie, high-volume) foods make you feel satisfied, the best (and worst) foods for a satisfying, lower-calorie diet, a menu plan, an exercise plan, and environmental influences on eating. You also learn which foods are easiest to overeat. This is not a fad diet--it is logical and scientifically based, yet easy to understand and put into action. --Joan Price
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Dieters everywhere have the same complaint: they're hungry all the time. Now this revolutionary book, based on sound scientific principles, can help you lose weight safely, effectively, and permanently without those gnawing pangs of hunger.
The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan introduces the concept of "energy density" -- concentration of calories in each portion of food. Here you'll learn how to avoid high energy -- dense foods, and how such different nutritional factors as fat, fiber, protein, and water affect energy density and satiety. You'll discover which foods, eaten under which circumstances, allow you to consume fewer calories and still be satisfied. And you'll get to know the hidden calorie traps, seemingly innocuous foods that can sneak unwanted calories into your body. Finally, the authors offer 60 sensible, tasty and easy recipes, plus an integrated program of exercise and behavior management that can be sustained over a lifetime.
Customer Reviews:
Volumetrics Review.......2007-06-09
The concepts presented in this book are interesting and valid. The idea of beefing up any dish with free fruits or veggies to up the appetite control and lower the caloric intake makes sense. Also presented are helpful lists of food choices and amounts, helping the reader make wise decisions. However, the recipes included leave a lot to desire. Apparently, the title deals with volume, not taste!! If you want to customize your own food plan and incorporate some of these ideas, you'll be happy with reading this. It is a healthful program, and one that falls in line with heart-smart and diabetic diets.
The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan.......2007-06-08
Diet was highly rated by Consumers report. Book was easy to understand and made horse sense. I am a volume eater and the other diets didn't fill me. This idea works and I am using it. Only shortcoming was too few recipes Looking for a second book with more.
The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan
Good information, dispels a lot of myths.......2007-06-03
Everyone that's been sucked in by the low low-carb diet craze (or any other fad diet) should read this book. The author writes the scientific facts behind losing weight and keeping the weight off.
I've already lost 11lbs using the books principles. It's taken 6 weeks to lose that weight; the book doesn't promise quick results. However, I feel confident that the results are permanent, and I'll continue to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week until I get to my healthy weight.
The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan.......2007-05-25
The menu items are great. Our whole family loves the meals.
This is a great find!.......2007-05-16
I saw this book on the news station one morning and decided to purchase it because it was considered one of the top books for consistent weight loss. This book has a lot of great information, and I was hooked even after the first couple of pages. This book does not tell you to avoid the good foods that we all like, with respect to fried foods, chocolate, and desserts. Rather, the book offers better food choices and explains in full detail what a fat is, what a carbohydrate is, and it's so easy to understand. I love this book because it tells you this is not a diet, but a newer way of eating the correct way. Spend the $8 to get it; it will retrain your thinking about eating and eating the right way, so you're not only more full at dinner, but you won't feel guilty about eating that piece of chocolate cake.
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In Sink Reflections, Marla Cilley -- the FlyLady -- helped hundreds of thousands of her fans combat overwhelming household C.H.A.O.S. (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). Taking a "baby-steps" approach, she offered little chores to do every day, to wipe out clutter and feelings of inadequacy. Now, in Body Clutter, the FlyLady and Leanne Ely, the Dinner Diva and creator of the Saving Dinner series, team up to teach readers how to handle and erase the clutter they carry on their bodies and minds when it comes to body image.
The FlyLady and Leanne say that it's not about finding the perfect diet, it's about the way you feel about food and your body and understanding sound nutrition. With warm voices, unique lingo, and no preaching, they apply a step-by-step technique, coaching the readers from beginning to end and sharing their own success stories along the way.
Customer Reviews:
Body Clutter.......2007-09-25
I am reading this book now, and intend to use it to lose weight. I am very happy with the book.
Take care of yourself!.......2007-09-25
This book stresses the importance of taking care of yourself just as you take care of yourself. What a perfect idea! Marla asks why we take care of ourselves only when we're pregnant or nursing. That's a good question. I think this book will open alot of inner dialog for it's readers and initiate some soul searching. I am in the process of reading it again.
Some things in this book did not seem to fit. For instance, the Author berating a lady who wrote the Flylady website. This woman simply asked Mrs. Cilley to consider changing the Flylady Icon to one with a healthier figure. It was just an idea (I don't agree either) and I didn't think it warranted the response that is in this book. I don't think this book was the right place for blasting a well meaning critic. Maybe she'll zap me in her next book!
Don't spend your precious time or money on this book. .......2007-09-13
There is nothing profound in this book. The book is composed of basic information that most [informed] women already know about themselves and their weight related struggles.
Unimpressive writing/editing as well. I was hoping for more.
So-so book.......2007-08-09
I was disappointed not to find revelations in the book like I have found in reading Feng Shui books about material clutter. The style was a little too clever, although the intention was sincere. I found myself not understanding some of the jargon that was repeatedly and overly used.
Terrible!.......2007-06-15
I'm not normally one to go online and post a bad review, but I was so thoroughly disappointed by this book that I felt I had to do something about it. Not only is it terribly written, but there's no true insight or mental depth to the book. The author's style of writing is just as haphazard and messy as one of the rooms in her house. I do not recommend wasting your money on this book. The most the book does is provide someone with a little bit of comfort to know that there are other messy, overweight people out there. But alas, it doesn't provide any fundamental insights on changing poor eating habits or increasing exercise.
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First published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the classic book that teaches readers how to rebuild their body image, make peace with food, and find the natural weight that's right for them. This program-developed by two prominent nutritionists-teaches: -How to reject diet mentality forever -How the three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties -How to honor hunger and feel fullness. A tried-and true-plan that couldn't be more in tune with the times we live in, this fully revised and updated edition includes: -A new chapter on eating disorders -Step-by-step guidelines for following the ten principles of Intuitive Eating.
Customer Reviews:
Good book when supported with additional information.......2007-09-21
I have seen so many books on dieting! Each month or so a new title pops up claiming to have the ULTIMATE SOLUTION to our nation's overeating problem. That's right folks, in most cases this is just that - OVEREATING. In most cases we do not need any diet; all we need is to stop overeating - the constant snaking, and chewing usually accompanied with drinking pops. How about drinking just clear mineral water instead? Just by making this simple adjustment many of us would shed a considerable amount of pounds. As the authors of Intuitive Eating rightly point out, there is no ultimate diet that fits everyone. Each one of us is unique, we grow up in different environments, we are all differently "wired" and we have different needs. The problem with Intuitive Eating is that most of the foods that we find in our grocery stores is not natural food any more; it often has so many added ingredients that cheat the wisdom of our bodies. Most of us can probably name one or two snack that we are just not able to stop eating. In my case it is potato chips. Whenever I start eating them, I cannot stop until I eat all of them. Why is that? - I don't know. According to Kevin Trudeau, the author of the book Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About, the food industry purposely adds some ingredients to "hook us up" with their products, to make us addicted to some foods. Whether this is true or not, it is very likely that our wise bodies will not intuitively know when to stop eating modified, unnatural foods. The way I deal with my problem is simple - I just don't buy any potato chips any more. It is only right to follow the well known advice that can be found in any GOON NUTRITION books (do not confuse that with dieting books):
- eating in small portions, not overindulging
- eating only fresh ingredients, drinking a lot of water
- eating a lot of vegetables and fruits
- eating slowly, well chewing each byte
- eating all kind of foods, not following any fad diets
- changing your diet according to the season
- exercising
The above well known truths can be found in many sources. In addition, in the book "Can We Live 150" you will find the following bad habits that lead people to obesity:
- The habit of eating fast and not chewing the food well
- Frequent snacking or constant chewing
- Incorrect combining of food products
- Lying down after meals
- Sitting lifestyle
- Eating while watching TV
- Eating while irritated
- Eating before bedtime or at night
- Eating mostly refined and cooked food products.
Intuitive eating is a good idea, but in the modified foods environment it needs to be supported by additional knowledge of proper food combination etc. Books by Tombak ("Can We Live 150", "Cure the Incurable") and some other authors will well fill the void.
A different approach.......2007-09-19
The authors took a different approach to the issues of eating. The authors clearly state that their book may not work for everyone, especially those who have an established eating disorders and who may need professional assistance to solve their eating disorder issues. This doesn't mean you're weak.
I read this book back in January after I picked it up while waltzing through a bookstore. The major take away I got from the book was how dissatified I was with what I ate and why I was eating it. I was substituting foods that were okay tasting or were okay as far as pleasure goes for ones I really wanted. Sometimes I just want some candy or french fries. This doesn't mean I eat it all the time. At first I did after reading the book. I don't know if I gained weight once I tried it or not.
One night a couple of months after I had finished reading the book, I found myself eating my dinner and not wanting any more of it. I find that I am paying attention to when I'm full and I sometimes eat past that point by my choice. My weight is going down (I did step on the scale a month ago and almost freaked out that I would not be able to sleep through the night). I find that I'm happier with my food choices. I tend to eat decently and I add the fun foods when I really want them. And I do eat them. And I don't feel guilty. For the diet nuts, I was a size 18 when I finished reading the book in January and I am now a size 14. I've not exercised, aside from walking my dog. I've just eaten intuitively. I struggled desperately on Weight Watchers last fall (before reading this book) with counting points and working out 2x a day to lose 10 pounds in 3 months - I was miserable and I felt so guilty eating my points I was entitled. It's not Weight Watchers fault. It is a program which does teach moderation and eating what you enjoy. It just didn't address the real issue for me - dissatisfaction with food.
How else have I been impacted? For 18 years, I rarely slept through the entire night. I would wake up and eat - dissatisfaction again because the things I would eat when I woke were the things I would hide (chocolate chips, pop tarts, candy)because I was not supposed to eat them. This has had a major impact on me as I sleep through the night most every night (maybe one or two nights a month I now wake up) when before I would sleep through the night maybe 4-5 nights a month.
For me, the biggest message I gleaned from the book is gaining satisfaction from what I eat. If you have an ingrained eating disorder, you may actually need professional help that a book like this cannot provide. Seek help if you require it. This book could be a good first step towards improving your life.
great book.......2007-09-19
This book is changing my life. I have to say... its not a quick fix. Not at all. I've been following their advice for months now. Its changing my head and my train of thought... my body has yet to catch up. It is a great book for anyone suffering from an eating disorder, or if they're simple obsessed with food. After years of Weight Watchers, I couldn't even think straight about what I wanted to eat for dinner. This book is putting me back on the right track. Its an easy read and it has a quick reference section. I am constantly re-reading it for more ideas and support.
Very Intuitive Reading.......2007-08-23
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever struggled with food, weight, and dieting. While I found one chapter on their suggested nutritional guidelines a bit antiquated, the basic tenets of their philosophy are so universally, intuitively true. It is a common sense approach to food and life that will teach you to look within for answers. Absolutely refreshing!
Life Changing.......2007-07-06
If you actually learn to trust your body and listen to your body, it can do wonders for your self esteem and outlook on everything. This book helped me get out of the mind set of the eating disordered, and taught me to trust myself. My body knows what it wants and what it needs. Some days I'm hungier than others, and some days I eat fattier foods than the next day. That's all okay because it all balances out in the end, and my body is getting what it wants and needs. The book made reference to young children and how they know when to eat and when not to, what to eat and what not to. They know how to listen to their bodies, and this book helped me learn to listen to mine as well. We are all different shapes and sizes, and we don't have to fit the ideal standard that our world has set out for us - we aren't all size zeros who eat low fat foods every day and avoid cake and cookies like they are poison. Trust yourself. Read this book and learn that food doesn't have to consume every thought that goes through your head.
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Unruly indeed.... This deftly written collection of 20 erotic tales is sure to titillate, intrigue, and inspire. Editor of several successful erotica anthologies, Hanne Blank knows good sex, and this, her first book-length solo offering, demonstrates her considerable talents as a creator of erotic fiction. Blank’s arousing descriptions, smart writing, and fantastic imagination are sure to hit their mark. Unruly Appetites draws readers in immediately with the most scintillating, intimate details of its characters’ unrestrained encounters. One story describes a chance meeting on the road where “maybe turns to yes without ceremony, without fuss.” Readers may find themselves both shocked and enthralled by the human-feline encounter described in “The Princess and the Tiger,” or lost in possibilities from the graphic memories of a foursome aroused by steamy Polaroids. The myriad fantasies, perspectives, dreams, realities, groupings, shapes, and ages presented here offer almost limitless variety. Blank encourages her readers to “Love hard, live with grace and appetite, forget that you’re a grownup once in a while.” Her latest testament to pleasure -- with these tantalizing, steamy and seductive tales -- shows the way.
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Some of the stories excellent, some not so much...........2007-03-10
Well, my title pretty much sums it up. There are a few stories in this book that make it worth purchasing, but then there are some that you want to skip. Thus, three stars.
Unruly erotica!.......2003-10-02
Unruly Appetites is one of the most tantalizing collections of erotic stories ever written. Hanne Blank's insatiable, provocative and explicit tales satisfied me from beginning to end - so to speak. I especially love the stories "Claudia" and "The Princess and the Tiger." Her writing is subtle and lyrical, making the erotic stories all the more alluring. You should read this book with your partner. Ms. Blank is an astounding erotic writer and I look forward to reading her future projects with utmost anticipation. I also recommend The Sex Chronicles by Zane.
thank you hanne for some of the sexiest stuff i ever read!.......2003-04-10
This book is awesome. The best in women's erotica. Hanne Blank is one of the only authors that has affected me so much. I am absolutely blown away by her beautiful writing as well as the erotica in her story "Claudia". After I read that story I was, uh, well, somewhat stimulated. Her actual craft in the writing of the story is so good it stays in my mind even after the arousal drifts away.
Every story was a good read. Ms. Blank writes in so many different scenarios and predilections that it's refreshing. Even if the story's theme isn't your "thing" it's still good reading. Thank you Hanne for your celebration of women and their sexuality!
raises the bar for porn.......2003-02-11
raises the bar for good porn
This book is one of the more delicious erotic anthologies I've come across in a long time. Hanne Blank's writing is titlating, imaginative and will keep on the edge of your seat/sheets. There are so many stories with differing themes, combinations and moods that there is absolutely something for everyone. Finally, a writer who can combine hot sex and emotion together. I think my favorite story is Sauce for the Gander, a fun but unconventional look at a relationship with a woman who loves both her boyfriend and her girlfriend. Totally sexy, unexpected but not stupid cheesoid wacka wacka porn. Also The Princess and the Tiger will make the top of your head pop open with it's fantastically seductive story.
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The final and remarkable book of best-selling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating—-complete with Knapp's unflinching account of her anorexia. In fact, Knapp is writing about how every woman can decipher her hunger and loneliness by connecting with her desire to experience pleasure. She illuminates the ways in which cultural taboos about women who desire create vulnerability to disorders of appetite including food and alcohol addictions, compulsive shopping and promiscuous sex. In this expansive view, "one woman's tub of cottage cheese is another woman's maxed-out Master Card." Readers will nod in recognition as the author seamlessly weaves autobiography and anthropology, describing her family of origin, profiling women of appetite and countering what she calls "the culture of No!" that curbs and disguises women's desires. Knapp gets to yes by urging readers to ask: "What gives me delight and fully engages me?" Knowing that 42-year-old Knapp died of lung cancer makes this question all the more poignant. Such questions suggest Knapp's brave and generous legacy. --Barbara Mackoff
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"The smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the torturous pathways of female desire."--Salon
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What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking, instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires?
Knapp, best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite--for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture. She uses her early battle with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers--and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want."
Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully--and urgently--challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.
Customer Reviews:
Essential reading for every woman.......2007-08-01
I read this book as part of a feminist psychology class and I LOVED it. It is so enlightening and revealing.
It is about anorexia, but as a reader you often forget this because it-- unlike most books on eating disorders-- focuses on the psychology of women and how society impacts women's desires and sense of entitlement.
I DEFINATELY recommend reading this book... there is no doubt that it will change the way you think about your wants and needs and make you question what society has been telling and teaching you all your life.
Great Book.......2007-07-17
Overall a great book if you don't want a completely factual account of women and dieting. It can be self-indulgent, ego-centric, and sprawling but the author's personality is likable and sympathetic so I enjoyed learning about the more personal side to this. There are other more factual books I would reccomend, though, like Women and Dieting Culture: Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group or Hunger: An Unnatural History.
But good book overall and I'd reccomend it.
One More in the Name of Love.......2006-11-14
Alice Walker once wrote, "Art unfailingly reflects its creator's heart. Art . . . comes from a heart open to all the possible paths there might be to a healthier tomorrow." Caroline Knapp's artistry was in writing and publishing her internal dialogues. This book appears to reveal her heart, a heart that was open to considering new and different possible paths to a healthier tomorrow. She may not have had all the solutions to the issues she raised in her excellent book, but I admire her tremendous courage to express her frustrations clearly and to think aloud to try and understand the motivations and causes for her behaviors. She expressed her best estimates of how she might improve her circumstances. This book is an excellent look at one [...] woman's cognitive thought processes about why she thought she was the way she was, and how she thought she might overcome her perceived problems. Whether you agree with her or not as to the causes of her issues and their possible solutions, if you read this book, you will learn something very valuable about the strong, and sometimes controlling, reasoning processes that likely flow through many women.
Throughout this book (and her books 'Pack of Two' and 'The Merry Recluse') she discusses her difficulties with communicating with her mother, her father, her significant others, professors and people in general. She discusses how she did not believe that her parents communicated well with each other in key areas. She watched her mother silently accept roles that she was not certain her mother should accept. She saw her mother accept treatment from her father that she thought her mother should have responded to differently.
When a woman chooses to attach her soul to another person's soul, and also agrees to "be silent to" or condone parts of the other person's philosophies or actions she believes to be in error - that prolonged, and potentially neverending, acquiescence can negatively effect her psyche. That degree of unceasing internal mental contradiction in major areas may manifest itself in either serious mental dysfunctions or physical ailments.
It is more healthy for a woman to express her objections, even if those objections are not addressed and remain outstanding, than to be silent. Women must overcome any discouragement they receive from their family, friends, and significant others, discouraging them from expressing the ideas they think may lead to possible solutions. They should not always defer to the people closest to them because women often have the best access to the most accurate information about themselves. And even when their suggested solutions may not be better than the current course, when they raise their objections, it gives their community notice of issues that likely deserve alternate responses and further reconsideration.
Thank you Ms. Knapp, not because you had all the right answers, but because you set a great example of a woman fighting resiliently to help herself and others, even when that self-examination was revealing and sometimes humbling. Even when she could not find sufficient motivations for herself, she worked toward and wanted other women to pursue their fulfilments and desires, and to become satiated. She wanted to stop the cycle of mothers unknowingly passing on negative patterns to their daughters. Caroline's voice was heard and I will always remember it.
I wish I hadn't bought this. .......2006-09-12
I got so much out of Knapp's book on alcoholism, I foolishly assumed this would be enlightening as well. She seems determined to prove that every woman in America has issues. If you diet, for whatever reason, you have issues. If you eat what you like, you have issues. If you're vegetarian. If you eat junk food. If you work out. If you hate how you look in a bikini. If you LIKE how you look in a bikini. For god's sake, food is just one part of life. And there are actually women who do not have body issues!
I'm currently trying to get in shape (note my phrasing there), and I'd thought this would motivate me. What was I thinking. I can just see Knapp, were she alive, questioning me about my diet and exercise, and then her comments afterwards. "She eats a quarter cup of M&M's a day...Yes, she told me that she read the nutritional info on the packate, but SEE? We're all slaves to the FDA and the LIES they cram down our throat! She's AFRAID to go for it and just take a handful of M&Ms and be FREEEEEEE!" Except that eating like that is how I got out of shape, and then it would be, "Oh, she doesn't like her body, because Vogue tells her she has to disappear when she turns sideways!"
Every girl should read this.......2006-04-19
This book is amazing. I go to a large State College and see this sort of thing everyday. Girls spending money the don't have to buy an identity; girls giving themselves up to men just to feel wanted, girls starving themselves simply because they are so lost. This book says everything; very honestly. I think any female can relate to it. I couldn't put it down. I stayed up and read the whole thing in two days. I particularly rec this book if you are about college age from my generation.
Book Description
The Solution to Dieting!
Almost everyone who wants to lose weight makes a painful discovery: diets don’t work. After following the rules and wrestling with the temptations, nearly all dieters regain what they have lost–and then some. What’s worse, the anger and frustration of constant dieting just make us want to eat more! If only we could turn off the drive to overeat. But that’s impossible, right? Wrong!
Based on the amazingly effective method developed by weight-loss expert Laurel Mellin, The 3-Day Solution Plan will give you a powerful, step-by-step plan to turn off the drive to overeat while shedding up to six pounds! A proven program for lasting weight loss without dieting, The Solution Method was developed by Mellin at the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine. Health magazine named it one of the 10 top medical advances of 2000. But this is the first time The Solution Method has been made accessible to everyone as a results-oriented jumpstart to the program–and it only takes three days.
The life-changing potential of The Solution Method is that it directly addresses the feeling brain, the home of our most primitive urges, like eating. Other weight loss programs are based on knowledge and planning–activities of the thinking brain. The problem is that there is no significant relationship between the feeling brain and the thinking brain. Reason can’t make anyone stop wanting a cookie.
But as Solution participants attest: this program works. Two- and six-year follow-up studies have shown The Solution to produce weight loss without dieting and unparalleled results in terms of keeping it off. In just three days you will get started with the method and
• Lose up to six pounds without dieting
• Learn how to turn off the drive to overeat
• Follow the simple and healthy 1-2-3 Eating Plan
• Find out how fantastic you can feel every day!
With delicious recipes, complete menus, and suggestions for easy restaurant substitutions, The 3-Day Solution Plan is a complete road map that begins guiding you toward the ultimate destination: a thinner, more vibrant you!
Customer Reviews:
A smart, doalbe diet.......2007-01-05
My wife and I got on this diet more than a year ago. We both so instant results and we felt good doing it. You have a lot to do to first week(s), but you see and feel the results, so it keeps you going. I was only a few pounds overweight, but I wanted to find a diet that could get me down to a healthier weight and look a little better in my clothes. Don't be fooled by the title of this book, the best part of this diet is that it gives you tips to run your life from here on in, and I'm still following many of the basic principles. Well done.
Pie in the sky.......2006-07-24
I was hoping this book would address psychological issues that drive us to overeat and offer suggestions to change. Instead it offered a very unrealistic lifestyle change of working only 6 to 8 hours a day, stopping every hour to examine one's feelings, taking an hour to exercise daily and an hour to do leisure activities daily. If only this were realistic.....
Not Impressed.......2006-03-12
While this book did touch on all aspects of life - self-nurturing, healthy exercise, toxic foods, etc., and offered some handy info; it remains a diet book nonetheless. The author's idea of a 3-day plan is to supress or limit the amount and types of food consumed during the 3-day period - i.e., a "diet." While the foods on the plan are "real", the 3-day food plan is typical of Atkins, South Beach, etc. I found other books to be much more helpful resources to overcome the root cause of an eating disorder.
Makes sense but badly written.......2005-12-17
I bought this book about a week ago, and am very excited to get started on it. Even though this is a weightloss book, and I do need to lose weight, I bought it because it talks about a way to get past the addictive behavior, the negative self-talk, all of that, by 'checking in' with yourself several times a day before you go too far down that spiral of self-destructive behavior. I've tried it a couple of times and it works! I encourage people to take a look at this book because the approach IS different than other diet books. But, it is not very well laid out or edited. There are several times where I have to re-read a sentence, because she's written it in such a convoluted way... instead of getting to the point, she gets too wordy, and you lose your momentum as you're reading. Also, there are, as I understand and I can't be sure because the bad format of the book, 3 main components to the 'solution', but then there are several part to each main component. And it's nearly impossible to figure it out, or remember it, unless you take notes. She talks about White Stuff once, and then doesn't mention it until several chapters later, and you have no idea what it is. Same with Masterful Living... This book needs to be re-released in a waaaaayyyyy better format, so that you can easily read about each part to the Solution, and follow it easier. The little cutout cards at the end of the book are helpful only to copy them down on your own piece of paper. Having said all that, I still recommend that people read the book - I think it's a sensible, innovative program, if you can just get through the book.
The 3-Day Solution Plan: Jump-start Lasting Weight Loss by Turning Off the Drive to Overeat.......2005-10-04
I am quite please with this book. It made a lot of sense to me. Laurel Mellin talks about how to come to a solution in your life that assists one with more than a new way of eating. The book speaks about how we can change our thinking on the other things in our life which in turn effects the what, when,and why we eat the things we do.
Amazon.com
Why do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism, and human nature. Notably strong-willed in a profession of bet-hedgers and wait-and-seers, Dawkins carries the reader along on a romp through the natural and cultural worlds, determined that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry."
Inspired by the frequently asked question, "Why do you bother getting up in the morning?" following publication of his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins set out determined to show that understanding nature's mechanics need not sap one's zest for life. Alternately enlightening and maddening, Unweaving the Rainbow will appeal to all thoughtful readers, whether wild-eyed technophiles or grumpy, cabin-dwelling Luddites. Excoriations of newspaper astrology columns follow quotes from Blake and Shakespeare, which are sandwiched between sparkling, easy-to-follow discussions of probability, behavior, and evolution. In Dawkins's world (and, he hopes, in ours), science is poetry; he ends his journey by referring to his title's author and subject, maintaining that "A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing." --Rob Lightner
Book Description
Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn't), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting.
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant.......2007-07-29
I positively love Dawkins literary style. The more of his books you read, the more you can feel how passionate he is about science and the natural world. The "official" book reviews call "Unweaving The Rainbow" a "love letter to science." I suppose you could call it that. I actually found it extremely informative on many scientific subjects, without being overly scientific or complicated. This would be an excellent read for someone who wants to learn something about natural sciences without getting drowned in all the professional, scientific jargon. The only reason I took a star away from this book is because I do feel that he gets a bit carried away with the poetry inserts. I'm not much of a poetry buff anyway, and the regularly inserted poems or poetic briefs only seem to get in the way of the interesting stuff in the book. Otherwise I loved this book immensely and would highly recommend it to anyone, whether scientifically inclined or not!!
Wonder indeed.......2007-07-05
Another master stroke from Dawkins, weaving poetry, science and humanism in his elegant style. Don't miss it.
A thoughtprovoking manifest.......2007-01-14
Dawkin's Unweaving the Rainbow is a skillfully crafted book; his idea of the beauty of nature is romantic - in every sense of the word; and his knowledge of not only biology, physics and chemistry, but also litterature and philosophy is truly amazing.
However, past the middle, towards the end, Unweaving the Rainbow looses some of it's power, before doing a great comeback with the chapter The Balloon of the Mind.
One thing, I - as both an atheist and a person dedicated to religious freedom - found compelling (especially when comparing Unweaving the Rainbow to other writings by Dawkins) is the avoidance of the bashing of religion. Sure, Dawkins makes comments on what he perceives as the ignorance of religion; but overall, the book is one of his best works - except, perhaps, what I would consider his magnus opus: The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
Magnifying the beauty of science.......2007-01-02
This book as another complement to Dawkins's fine books (see my review of other books written by Dawkins).
Science and Beauty
Unweaving the Rainbow is a good guide on the beauty of science. Dawkins rightly argues that by deconstructing a rainbow one does not de-mystify its beauty but magnifies it. I like his injection of poetry into his explanation of science.
The book is also about unweaving scientific jargon and explaining it simply to the reader so that the reader is in awe of science. I also like his treatise on genetics and his clarification of the meaning of the `selfish gene'.
Science vs Fraud
My favourite chapter is ch.6, `Hoodwinked with Faery Fancy'. Dawkins unfolds the quakery of Astrology and people who claim supernatural insights or have witnessed supernatural events (he calls it bad poetry). He argues persuasively that when these alleged events are analysed scientifically, they fade into statistical probabilities. The human brain is constructed to filter out what it deems to be important and magnanimous, such as predictions made by astrologers that come true, and blocks out events that have not been fulfilled. When taking everything into context and statistical probabilities, I am certain that majority of predictions do not come true, but some might... and it is these minority of events that we tend to focus on, thus making people believe there is something supernatural in these predictions. This chapter is good medicine for the Fox Mulders out there who just want to believe without evidence.
Carl Sagan and Religion
This is probably the only disagreement I have with the author as far as this book is concerned. At the beginning of Ch 6. `Hoodwinked with Faery Fancy', Dawkins quotes from the late Astronomer, Carl Sagan, who asked in his book, `Pale Blue Dot', how it was that no major religions looked at science and concluded that the universe is better than we thought. That it is larger than the prophets said and grander. Sagan goes on to say that the religionists say that their God is a little god and they want him to stay that way. Sagan said at end that the end that a religion that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might draw reserves of awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths.
Sagan clearly did not read the Quran. The Quran does ask the reader to look at the heavens and see how it was created, as well as look at a camel and see how it was created. There are things mentioned in the Quran that do tally with the discoveries of modern science, like in the field of Astronomy and the reader of the Quran is continually asked to ponder over creation and find out how it came about. Now I have read materials by Atheists who criticise Muslims who draw attention to science and the Quran. One such Atheist asked whether differential equations would be mentioned in the Quran if it is a science book. The Quran is a book of signs not a book of science. Differential equations, refractive indexes, hyperspace, quantum mechanics etc. would not be mentioned but there are verses that do deal with science (Astronomy, embryology, geography etc.) that can be tested and verified by modern technology. Thus Carl Sagan's criteria would be met by the Quran. Any religion that claims to be of Divine origin should be able to do this and I agree with Sagan's premise, but not his conclusion.
Summary
In general a good book on the beauty of science, especially for someone who is not acquainted with science. Hence a reasonably high rating.
Hasan Ali Imam
Where is wonder?.......2006-10-21
Richard Dawkins needs no introduction. A famous biologist and science communicator, Dawkins has made it his ambition not just to communicate science but also to preach his atheist faith and use science to demolish what in Dawkin's eyes, is a set of illusions created by viruses which infect our mind.
Dawkins is a brilliant scientist and I would also argue, a very good philosopher and theologian of atheism. His arguments against God and also against religious belief are very well focused and very convincing. Indeed, in this work he sets himself the task of ridding the world of any form of outmoded belief which hampers the sense of wonder from the universe science has discovered.
Dawkins criticises a range of figures, from the sociologists of science who notoriously argue science is a community-created worldview with little reality beyond the scientific world, to the poet William Blake to Dawkin's favourite targets, Christian theologians. In his no-nonsense manner he argues there is no room for such anti-scientific nonsense in a world 'decoded' by science which itself is a source of meaning, value and wonder.
I don't dispute with Dawkins that the scientific quest provide a sense of meaning, wonder and value to life. The universe has turned out to be much more than ancient and medieval scientists imagined. However, Dawkins also overlooks the insights of similar depth which are found in myth, in art, in philosophy, and also religion.
Though I disagree, I don't mind Dawkins using science as a handmaiden for his atheistic theology. Really where Dawkins is flawed is his condescending attitude to areas of belief and knowledge outside of the scientific method, which he often treats with great contempt at worst and as foolish fairytales containing some truth at best.
Dawkins is at his best whenever he communicates science, and if he was doing this rather than trying to argue for atheism, I would give this book five stars. Otherwise, it is fair to give four. He is worth reading no matter what his hostility to religion or poetry, because of his paradoxical artistic talents in writing about the beauty of nature as unfolded in the scientific worldview. And in doing that, he justifies my faith that the beauty of the world comes from the beauty of the Absolute itself.
Amazon.com
Devilishly handsome actor Ralph Feinnes, who packed on pounds for his role in Schindler's List, followed this plan and said it helped him keep his energy level high enough to survive his grueling, eight-times-a-week performances of Hamlet. The word "diet" in the title may be a bit misleading, as it's more of a blood sugar-regulating eating schedule; once blood sugar is normalized, says author Adele Puhn, cravings soon dissipate, and that helps excess pounds fall off almost by themselves. It's not a five-day diet, either, as the title implies; rather, that's the amount of time it takes to get your blood sugar fully normalized.
Puhn, who has a master's degree in medical biology and has been certified as a nutritional specialist by the American College of Nutrition, has 20 years of experience working with this diet. She says that timing is the key. Each day, there's a mandatory snack within two hours of breakfast, and two more snacks in the afternoon. There are a few no-no foods that would cause a rush of blood sugar (no pasta for lunch, no plain bagels for breakfast, no grapes for snacks), but other than that, the program is remarkably simple. Puhn says that losing weight is 75 percent physiological (cravings sabotaging your efforts) and 25 percent psychological, such as when your inner "fathead" says you have to have that piece of chocolate birthday cake or you'll hurt Aunt Fanny's feelings. The 5 Day Miracle Diet shows you how to conquer both of these forces, leading to weight loss, improvements in energy, and decreases in blood pressure and cholesterol levels. While its advice may be unusual (vegetables or turkey get the okay for breakfast), its message is clearly sane. It's "not about never eating certain things again. It's about learning how to live harmoniously with your food."
Book Description
Do you knowthat low-fat yogurt, bagels, oranges, bananas, and pasta can make you fat?
Do you know that swearing off the chocolate you love can make you put on pounds?
Do you know that you don't need willpower to diet? What you do  need is a program that is medically safe, nutritionally sound, and promises astonishing results by taking away your urge to overeat. It's
The 5-Day Miracle Diet.
When East Coast CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, actors, socialites, and famous sports figures need to lose weight, chances are their doctors refer them to Adele Puhn. She has helped thousands  of men and women in the past eighteen years. Her lucky clients not only lose weight more easily than they ever dreamed possible, but they keep the weight off forever. The reason for their success is Adele Puhn's revolutionary eating program, which is based on cutting-edge biochemical research and years of experience.
Seventy-five percent of
The 5-Day Miracle Diet is biochemistry. Glucose is the fuel your body needs to keep going, but when unbalanced eating drops blood glucose levels below a certain point, your body responds with an uncontrollable food craving--usually for a carbo-laden, sugary treat like chocolate, ice cream, cookies, even alcohol--that will give your body an instant hit. The problem is that the overdose of glucose starts insulin flowing so profusely that the rug is pulled out from under you. You are left in a state of low blood sugar with a need to eat more.
With Adele Puhn's program, you will learn to eat certain foods at certain times to regulate your blood sugar and keep it stable all day long . When you're in "good blood sugar," your cravings disappear--a process that takes just five days! And not only will you lose your cravings, you'll steadily melt away pounds while feeling more energized, mentally focused, and healthier than ever before.
The other twenty-five percent of her program tackles the fathead  mentality that most of us share: the emotional reasons that make us overeat. Adele Puhn gives you powerful strategies for fighting the fathead's  sabotaging ways, whether you overeat in response to your feelings, family issues, or old habits that are hard to let go.
So toss our your food pyramids, low-fat cookies, and carbo-packed meals. And throw away words like willpower, motivation , and urges . Adele Puhn's program works with your body, not against it, to bring you fabulous results--the weight loss you've always wanted, easier than you ever dreamed possible.
Customer Reviews:
lost too much weight on this, not kidding.......2007-05-16
I followed this book to the tee back in 1998, and lost so much weight I was too thin. I'm not kidding. I'm 5'1" tall and normal weight at my short height was always 105 lbs., even in my early 40's. Unfortunately, I was injured and gained some weight up to 118 lbs which was heavy for me. Purchased this book, followed exactly what she said, and my metabolism kicked in and before I knew it, the weight started melting off, without exercise. It was shocking, got out of control it came off so quickly, and I kept following it and doing it and ending up down to weighing 80 lbs.
It was scary (I have photos to prove), and I had to stop following the program, and of course gained some weight back (which is always VERY easy to do). I'm telling you if you follow this to the tee, it works like a miracle, and was very hard to believe how fast it happened, if you follow it as she says. This is the key. I had witnesses to this, they could not believe it either. But don't go overboard like I did. I let the weight loss get out of control, and should have started eating more normally again and just kept it up as maintenance.
Unfortunate title - Decent book.......2007-02-22
No it is not about loosing weight in five days. Actually, a much more practical book than that. It is more about how to control carbohydrate binge eating and your blood sugar levels. It's definitely not the last word in weight control, but still well worth keeping in mind when planning your daily diet.
Don't waste your money.......2006-08-08
I wasn't actually expected a miracle diet, but this book is ridiculous. The entire books reads like an extended infomercial. You'll have to slog through account after account of how amazing this diet is before you get to the meat of the program on page 80+. The menus don't even start until page 100. This book might have been okay as maybe a 10 page pamphlet. Don't waste your money.
a plan that works.......2005-09-12
This diet plan keeps your blood sugars level. You will find yourself not craving sweets or feeling hungry. It is important that you eat. I dropped 10 pound in 2 weeks. I never felt so good. My energy level is great, I wake up feeling awake and I no longer feel tired in the afternoon.
Good Diet.......2005-03-14
I found this book at a thrift shop last week & decided to try it. I realized I eat pretty much like she says to eat anyway, but not in the correct order, and I've had a hard time losing weight, even with good food. I also don't eat the hard & soft chew snacks between meals. That was a little difficult to do because I don't really crave food between meals, but I tried it & am beginning to lose weight again.
Amazon.com
A man of Rabelaisian appetite, with the exquisite palate of the true gastronome and the literary flair to match, A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) was a formidable eater and a remarkable man, and his nostalgic recitation of his years and meals in Paris is a pleasure to read, dream on, and drool about.
Liebling treasured a good appetite as a prerequisite for writing about food, as his accounts of substantial meals (two portions of cassoulet, one steak topped with beef marrow, and a dozen or so oysters, for example) attest. For the poised, precise, literary, and humorous flavor of his writing, you need only crack open the book--any page will do. Liebling recounts how to dine superbly without being lead astray by too much money, and he digresses magnificently on the evils of abstemiousness ("No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane"). In this age of diets and pragmatic health care, it's refreshing to read such an inspired and inspiring ode to pleasure. As a means of savoring a love affair with Paris, sparking an interest in a trip to France, restructuring your priorities for the trip you've already planned, or gearing up on the flight over for the gastronomic debauches to come, Liebling is unsurpassed. --Stephanie Gold
Book Description
New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir.
Customer Reviews:
A Treat.......2006-07-30
Did anyone ever love Paris, or at least eating in Paris, like Liebling. I share his love for the city and for the cuisine. Perhaps this colors my view but I really enjoyed this book.
reading between the meals.......2005-06-08
This book was strongly recommended to me by a friend who is from Europe and is very discerning when it comes to American writers. I'm glad that I have it.
While not nearly as zany or as challenging as Kerouac or Burroughs, this work, at its best, is rich, insightful and intensely funny: "What he called his pipes("ma tuyauterie"), being insufficiently excercised, lost their tone, like the leg muscles of a retired champion. When, in his kindly effort to please me, he challenged the escargots en pots de chambre, he was like an old fighter who tries a comeback without training for it."
The language is elegant and piercing, despite what the hypercritics have said; and the work stands as an opus to epicurean bliss.
It's well worth the read before, after, or in between the wonderful meals!
A Taste for Life. .......2004-12-21
I have to say first of all that I'm a sucker for all of the "Paris in the early part of the twentieth century" literature. I love Celine and Miller, but my favorite was Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Well, Between Meals is no A Moveable Feast but it certainly is a high quality read that I can unquestionably recommend to you.
Liebling, make no mistake, is a top notch writer and his sentence structure, use of metaphor, and style have much to offer aspiring wordsmiths. He has an eye for the essential and this is particularly true if you're at all like me as far as food is concerned. Liebling is a true gourmand and, even though I am completely unlearned and unappreciative in regards to fine dining, I still enjoyed his narration and memories of that splendid age.
The best of these essays is "Passable" where he recalls his old girlfriend from his student years. Liebling informs us that he does a poor job in reconstructing her but his description of their romance is quite compelling. I loved that essay just as I did the one on Mirande. This is a world long gone but we're fortunate that books like this are still in print. Reading it will give you a snapshot of beauty that will hang like a Renoir in the corridors of your mind.
Makes you long for the good old days..........2004-09-30
This is a fantastic book, but if you've never cracked The New Yorker open before, you might not like the style. Very in the moment and tongue in cheek, Liebling is a master wordsmith leaving no offense done to him by the onset of modernity unheckled. Some of the greatest tidbits come when he derrides the famous Michelin Star rating system for French restaurants, now a standard that chefs have literally killed themselves over - Liebling reminds you that its just a rating from a TIRE manufacturer and that he feels it marked the decline of real French cooking.
I read passages of this book out loud to friends and family, most notably the ones dealing with the immense amounts of food, and always got a laugh. This is not a book dealing with the upper crust of French high society, but rather a street wise, in the guts little tome that entertains and educates - though sadly, it is unlikely one can find the Paris that Liebling describes anymore.
What a bore! One star is an over-rating!.......1999-12-07
Before purchasing this book, I read all the customer comments which gave nothing but praise. I just don't get it. I wish one of the reviewers would have given me tips on how to stay awake while plodding through each sentence/paragraph, along with where to find a single nugget in these pages worth remembering. Okay, I'll probably always wonder how the author's love of boxing was deemed worth inclusion, but then I wonder why the entire book was printed. I feel suckered! And can't think of anything to recommend this book. My advice is to spend your money on ANYTHING written by M.F.K. Fisher, "The Tummy Trilogy" by Calvin Trillin or "Blue Trout and Black Truffles" by Joseph Wechsberg for much more pleasurable reading.
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