The Mayo Clinic William-Sonoma Cookbook: Simple Solutions for Eating Well

Great collection of vegetable/legume recipes that work well with a Mediterranean eating lifestyle.

The Mayo Clinic Cookbook was given to me as a gift from a friend who also loved it. The recipes have comprehensive nutrition analyses, and a color picture of every dish showing the individual portion size. This is very helpful, you can browse through and see what you're in the mood for. Their preparation times don't seem to correspond to a home kitchen, I wouldn't rely on them. The recipes are all very tasty, but I have found that the assortment of spices they use are very limited. They use black pepper to an extreme. I no longer use a recipe straight from the book without analysing the spices they suggest first. Changing the flavoring with different spices does not affect the nutritional value of the recipe, it just allows you to adapt the flavor to your individual palate. I have been able to control my blood pressure, reduce my blood cholesterol, lose weight, and save money, all by using this cookbook exclusively for three months. Try it. I'm back here to buy three more to give to friends this Christmas!

I really appreciate the cookbook. The recipe are simple easy to do it and well explain. Each recipe that I tried was really taste.I saw a dietetist, that she gave me a diet, and the recipe in this book are correspond with my diet.So, it is a really good cookbook.P.S. Excuse my english, I'am french.Sylvie

I've made a number of these meals that have taken me out of my comfort zone (fennel bulbs? quinoa?) and they all have been fabulous. My picky 11 year old will eat the meals, as will my adventurous eating teen and my somewhat food cautious husband. These meals sometimes take a long cooking time, but the prep time is short which matters more to me. I highly recommend this cookbook!

Beautiful illustrations. Easy recipes. Great ideas for healthy meals. However, the recipes use red pepper and other hot spices, not to our liking, to make-up for low sodium. The nutrition value of each recipe is included as well as a section in the front of the book to explain a health diet and portion size. They do use the word Kilojoules in the nutritional value of each recipe with no definition that required looking up. All in all, with some adaptation, this is a very good healthy recipe book.