Vendeur : Crappy Old Books, Barry, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Fair. The Low Carbohydrate Diet (1976) by Evelyn Fiore Michael Joseph ? ISBN 0718102339 ? Condition: Good ? courteously curated by Crappy Old Books Behold the 1970s, when kitchens wore avocado green and nutritional advice came with a side of cheerful certainty. Evelyn Fiore?s The Low Carbohydrate Diet is a brisk, no-nonsense tour of eating fewer starches without surrendering your dignity (or your dinner). It?s pre-app, pre-macro, pre-someone-on-a-podcast; just pages, a pencil, and the sort of recipes that know what a frying pan is for. Fiore?s tone is schoolteacher-meets-hostess: kind but firm, and inclined to believe you can manage a week without bread if properly briefed. She sketches out the usual suspects (sugar, flour, the carbohydrates lurking in ?innocent? places) and then arms you with menus, substitutions, and a pep talk that sounds like it was delivered between courses. There are charts. There are lists. There are recipes that wink at indulgence while politely escorting potatoes to the door. Expect such 1970s delights as: Steak that means it (and salads that mind their own business). Eggs in several convincing disguises , none of which apologize. Sauces that earn their keep ?creamy, zesty, quietly triumphant?designed to make you forget there used to be pasta here. The occasional inventive dessert that proves restraint can be theatrical. Is this a medical treatise? Absolutely not. It?s a time-stamped manual for the eternally recurring human project: ?eat differently, feel virtuous.? Fiore belongs to that charming era when a diet book assumed you owned a casserole dish, a sense of humor, and a calendar. No fearmongering; just straightforward ?here?s what to cook and how not to be bored.? This particular copy arrives Good by Crappy Old Books standards: smart, sound, and ready to be propped open with a salt cellar. Pages are crisp enough to survive a splash, the spine has seen some flipping (a sign of use, not defeat), and the jacket has the seasoned competence of someone who?s hosted a dinner party where three guests announced ?no carbs? at the door. File under: Vintage diet lit with backbone , Menus that don?t sulk , and The pre-influencer era of sensible kitchen optimism . Read it for the snapshot of 1976 culinary common sense; keep it because the recipes still cook, the tone still carries, and the resolve is delightfully contagious. Crappy Old Books: we plate the past with a garnish of honesty and ship it to your shelf?no bun, plenty of flavor. N° de réf. du vendeur 4659
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Vendeur : Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, Royaume-Uni
paperback. Etat : Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000145374
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