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Editorial Review: Over 100 delicious recipes for managing milk allergy and lactose intolerance by two renown vegan chefs, Bryanna Clark Grogan and Jo Stepaniak, show that you needn't give up your favorite foods due to allergies. Comprehensive information by well-known dietitan Brenda Davis explains how to meet all of your nutritional requirements, including calcium, on a dairy-free diet. Includes home tests to help determine dairy allergies and tables listing the breakdown of lactose in popular foods.
Customer Reviews:
0 of 1 found this review helpful:
Pretty good, 2008-03-04
Bought the book for a friend who is lactose intolerant. After a lot of research, it really stood out as the best book. Unlike many books, it's entirely dairy free, which is key to those who are fully lactose intolerant. And I wasn't specifically interested in a book that was vegan (or soy free).
He likes the book quite well, and I think/hope it'll prove useful to him. It's hard to buy something like this who has been intolerant for a while, and already knows many of the specifics the book covers, but I think/hope it'll prove useful.
3 of 4 found this review helpful:
if i have a cheese craving, i think i'll just eat an avocado, 2007-03-10
recently turning vegan, i decided i would like to have a cookbook of uncheese recipes. though there are some on the market that are more known and reviewed than this one, i decided to try it. so far i have tried two recipes and each were disappointing. maybe i have my expectations set too high? really, for recipes that boast a "velvety" cheese sauce and soy -less "cream" cheese, these are a downer. perhaps if they instead had names like "orangy sauce that is incredibly inventive but doesn't really taste like cheese sauce" or "white spread for toast" i wouldn't have been so disappointed. so, from now on i will try to stick to whole foods (like avocados)to get my fix instead of the recipes in this book.
11 of 33 found this review helpful:
This is for vegans, not just the lactose intolerant, 2006-01-21
I bought this book so that I could learn some milk-free recipes, as I have trouble digesting dairy products. I was dismayed to find that this book is hardcore vegan...so not only is there no milk, there's no eggs or anything else from an animal. I mean, if you want to be vegan, fine, but I'm just looking for some milk and butter-free recipes. These recipes called for way too much tofu, though I'll admit the tofu cupcakes were good. But by and large, unless you are really committed to the vegan lifestyle, I'd look elsewhere.
22 of 22 found this review helpful:
Definitely a godsend, 2004-12-28
My partner complained of a lack of options when I told him he should stop eating dairy. (He has a dairy sensitivity and was at the time avoiding cow's milk, but still eating goat dairy.) Then I found, among other things, this book at the local natural foods store, and it disproved that theory quickly.
Our household agrees that the cheese sauces work very well. The hard cheeses, I found that I liked, but my sweetie disagreed. The "Melty Pizza Cheeze" is one of his favorites, whereas I don't much enjoy it, probably for the same reason why he likes it ("It's exactly like squeeze cheese! Except all, like, natural and healthy and stuff!")
There hasn't been a single thing we've tried from this book that *one* of us hasn't liked, and the most valuable thing in it is the substitution information, which allows us to make familiar recipes with different components -- such as the sweetened condensed soymilk recorded here, which made a fabulous key lime pie. (We couldn't even taste the difference.) It's allowed my partner to continue eating variations on "normal food" that he otherwise would have missed, and which the rest of the family enjoys as much in their altered forms as we do the standard versions. High praise.
Furthermore, although this is not an issue for us, I'm pleased by the sensitivity of the book to people with soy allergies; many of the recipes have variations made with non-soy products, which I'm sure must come as a great relief to those who can't have either milk or soy.
17 of 17 found this review helpful:
Great Vegan Nutrtional Info and Recipes, 2002-12-24
I really enjoyed the nutrition section at the beginning of this book. I've been a vegan for a long time, so I've got to be impressed when a cookbook teaches me some new things about vegan nutrition. The recipes are great as well - as is expected for Joanne Stepaniak's work. My small complaint is that some of the recipes are identical to those in the Uncheese Cookbook. Yeah, that Gazebo cheesecake is excellent enough to deserve getting printed again, but I was really hoping for some new cheesecake recipes! Quite a few of the recipes are new, so it is still worth picking up this one as well, especially if you've got picky non-vegans to feed.
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