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My Review of "A Good Food Day"

Marco Canora is a critically acclaimed chef and the owner of the restaurant Hearth.  Marco himself was forced to re-evaluate his eating habits after receiving alarming results of his blood tests.  He was ready to change his lifestyle, but was not ready to sacrifice the enjoyment of eating food that tastes great.  He chose, instead, to enjoy wholesome, healthy food of the highest quality.  A Good Food Day is a cookbook just about that -- simple, delicious food that is good for you.  In this cookbook, Canora explores common healthy diet guidelines (for example, good fat, LGI, Omega-3, etc.), and offers a variety of recipes for each of these.  His main principles are eating good food and enjoying it.

I thoroughly enjoy A Good Food Day.  Canora divides the book into several sections:   Breakfast, Salads, Vegetables, Beans and Lentils, Great Grains, Fish, Meat and Poultry, Snacks, Sweets.  And there are some 125 recipes to choose from!  The pictures offer a great deal of support in giving some of these a try.  But the most intriguing recipes come from the Salads section.  I love the vinaigrettes.  My second favorite section is the Sweets.

I definitely recommend A Good Food Day for those willing to make changes in their diet and those that don't think traditional recipes in diet books are tasty.

I received this book free, from the Blogging for Books program, in exchange for my honest review.

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