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You Won't Believe It's Gluten-Free!: 500 Delicious, Foolproof Recipes for Healthy Living | 
 enlarge | Author: Roben Ryberg
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 17087
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 1569242526
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5638
EAN: 9781569242520
ASIN: 1569242526
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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Product Description
A pioneer in gluten-free cooking, Roben Ryberg has worked with gluten-free flours for over 15 years. Now, in You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten-Free!, she vastly simplifies the challenges of this special diet-while perfecting the flavor of everyone’s favorite foods. Completely comprehensive, You Won’t Believe It’s Gluten-Free! offers 500 recipes for all kinds of breads and baked goods, plus easy appetizers, soups, entrees, and salads to win over any crowd. It also features desserts for special occasions-even wedding cakes! Unlike the standard use of three or more flour blends, these recipes often call for just one flour, and many recipes include corn, potato, rice, and oat flour variations. This is an essential cooking bible for anyone with celiac disease, wheat allergy, IBS, or other gluten sensitivities.
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Incredible book! September 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before Celiac, I was an avid baker. I baked all of our breads (my children never knew what store brought bread was), and that is one of the hardest things that I've had to deal with. The smell of fresh baked bread, the way it feels when you're making it, etc. With this book I have been able to get back some of that nostalgic feeling of being in the kitchen and creating something truly wonderful. I use this cookbook almost daily and share it with anyone I can. I have tried many many other cookbooks and got so discouraged that I didn't want to try anything new. The smell of garbanzo bean flour was enough to make me stop using it. Not to mention the lead weight that came out of the oven every time I tried to bake with 4 or even 5 different flours. Thank you Roben for simplifying baking but while still providing my family with delicious treats from our kitchen. This book is truly a treat for anyone with gluten intolerance, celiac, or various other food allergies. Yeah for being back in the kitchen!!! Heather Jones
Yet another gem September 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My copy of Roben Ryberg's first book is well worn and quite messy. When the new book arrived in the mail I tap-danced all the way back from the mailbox. I immediately devoured the book reading all the recipes cover to cover. It only took a few hours and I marked each recipe I wanted to try. By the time I was done the book was full of little post it note markers! I have now made over 50 of the recipes corndogs, cheese crackers, and my favorite, cheese sticks! What I like best is the fact that most of the recipes use one or 2 flours and multiple recipes are offered for each item. This is very important to those of us that have more than one intolerance. I highly recommend this book.
 Monoflours August 26, 2008
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
I am hesitant to give a low review to any GF cookbook, if for no other reason than there just aren't enough GF cookbooks out there and any cookbook is a good addition to the GF lexicon.
However, I recently perused a copy of You Won't Believe It's Gluten-Free by Robin Ryberg. There are some problems with it.
There are no major errors or dangerous problems with Ryberg's cookbook. Several years ago, one "GF" cookbook that I bought included recipes with spelt, an ancestral wheat, which is absolutely verboten to us celiacs. Ryberg's book is safe, as far as I read. I admit that I didn't extensively delve into the book, but she seems knowledgeable.
However, there are some problems.
First, in many recipes, the author/chef uses one or two, maximum, of our funny flours. It's like those terrible old pre-Hagman monoflour days of crumbly breads and hard-baked paste. This is the largest shortcoming of the book. Most of the recipes look like they'll be bland and crumbly.
Next, the cover states that it has 500 recipes in it. Well, sort of. For many recipes, probably most, the author remakes the recipe several times with different flours, and each recipe utilizes just one flour.
For example, a biscuit recipe might have a "rice-based" biscuit, made from just rice flour, a "corn-based" biscuit, made from just cornstarch, a "potato-based" biscuit, made with just potato starch, and one biscuit recipe from one other starch.
That's four recipes down, only 496 to go!
Last, many recipes are quite nutrition-free. Granted, I'm a bit of a health nut. Before my diagnosis, I ate 15 grain bread. Once, I found 18-grain bread and was in multi-grain Heaven. The bread that I make is whole-grain and has lots of fiber and protein.
Most of Ryberg's recipes make Wonder Bread look like a loofah sponge. They are based on starches like cornstarch or potato starch instead of whole grains or legume flours. If I ate the recipes in this book, I would never poop again.
I'm sure that Ryberg worked hard in writing this book, and I'm sure that she was meticulous in testing the recipes. This is not a personal attack on her. Indeed, if you are allergic to several grains or other funny flours, this might be a good book for you, due to its alternate versions of each recipe.
Must-have for the Gluten-free! July 16, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is absolutely the best gluten free cookbook available. I highly recommend it, especially to those new to the Gluten-free life.
wonderful book to add or start your collection June 27, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have this book, and this is the best book that I have. The recipies are easy to follow, and adapt if you have other allgeries (like dairy). With in the first three days of recieving this book I made seven things from it. My favorite was the crackers...I could have crackers that have salt on them. YEA!!!! Get this book you will love it
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