Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2001

by Cooking Light, Adrienne S. Davis (Editor)

Cooking Light has compiled a year's worth of recipes from the 2000 issues of the magazine. The result is one of the largest "light" cookbooks, with a variety of recipes and healthy tips for today's health-conscious consumer. Special chapters have been included to highlight favorite columns from the magazine: Inspired Vegetarian and Cooking Class. This is the most extensive light cookbook available on the market today.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

416 pages, Hardcover

First published September 11, 2001

About the author

Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.

Reviews

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the format of this book. It is like having all of the 2000 issues condensed into a book. They kept the recipes in issue order (broken down by month), and every recipe is there. I really appreciate that they did not rearrange the recipes into categories. It makes it much easier for me to remember, "That awesome recipe was in a fall issue in 2000," and be able to actually find it.

Cooking Light, in my experience, has been a very reliable source for recipes. So far, I have made nine recipes from this book (with many many more on my "to-try" list), and six of them have made it onto my "make again" list. That is a great percentage in my house--my family has high standards. The remaining three recipes were still good enough that they were all consumed, leftovers and all.

Since reading this whole book, listing the recipes I want to try, and beginning to cook from it, I have started to collect the rest of the Cooking Light Annual books. They are great values for the money. You get hundreds of recipes in each volume. I am very happy with this book.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the Cooking Light Annual Recipes books. I have 2001-2008. Most of the dinners I cook are a Cooking Light recipe. When I'm making our weekly menu, I search for recipes on the Cooking Light website and note the year and month they were originally published. Then when it's time to make the dish, I pull out the corresponding Annual Recipe book. I don't have to hassle with printing the recipe out, etc. Love it!

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is better than originally thought. No bland diet fare here. The Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake turned out just like the cover! And while the cake is lighter than a standard pound cake, you wouldn't know the difference. It's really good -- a keeper. The Champion Chicken Parmesan turned out well also. So since I need to shed a few pounds, I think the other recipes deserve some serious attention.

[Gayle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another wonderful book of healthy recipes. If you like fish, you'll love the recipes in this cookbook.

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

The edition I have has a pound cake on the front for 2001. Great recipes anyways :)