Review: Incredibly practical
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2013
We get a lot of cook books, each staking its own claim as a `harbinger' of new solutions to the time constraints our modern lives have placed on the meals we cook and eat. And although most fall short of their claims, Alexandra Beck's `Smart Cooking for Busy People' awesomely nails it on the head: indeed, you get your money's worth, as the book brims with recipes and other practical cooking suggestions you rarely find anywhere else.As you probably know about trying to cook amid our busy workadays, "quick" or "instant" is easy to do, but "tasty and healthy" is not. The whole point is to help even those with only a few minutes to spare to enjoy the wisdom of the "AND": that is, to cook quickly and in careful consideration of the meal's actual palatability and nutritional content.One great thing about Alexandra Beck's book is she simply doesn't throw you easy-to-do recipes then leave you with it. Instead, she painstakingly goes to great lengths in order to explain why it is important to eat healthy--you simply cannot sacrifice your health for the sake of your job. As the old Japanese saying goes, "The body is the first layer of the mind." Once your health goes, so is everything else. Moreover, the book also provides helpful suggestions in order to make your cooking efficient and fast--there are good suggestions regarding affordable tools and kitchen equipment you can buy, as well as practical little methods that allow you to do things better. And then there is the "secret sauce": the three cooking tricks you simply must learn in order to do this easily and hassle-free.Overall, `Smart Cooking for Busy people' is a godsend: it finally gives those of us a chance to cling to a healthy lifestyle, one in which we have and do exercise our choice in terms of what we put into our body. It realigns our thinking and sets us correctly on the path toward fallacy-free thinking. Download or pick up a copy of the book today--it's also a great gift to all your busy friends.