Review: Not by the wildest stretch of the imagination....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2012
Not by the wildest stretch of the imagination could any of these recipes be called "ice cream" by anyone's definition. Maybe sorbet or frozen non-dairy dessert, but not "ice cream". Obviously nothing that is dairy free can be called ice cream because it has no cream. Frozen bananas are not ice cream! Additionally, it is misleading to call it "The Doctor's Ice Cream: 20 Healthy, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Low-Fat, All Natural, Ice Cream Recipes (Moan Inducing Raw Vegan Recipes)". What doctor? Is the author a doctor? Have the recipes been endorsed by a doctor? Neither are indicated inside this book.The majority of the recipes use a base of pureed frozen bananas, others use a cashew butter base, and a few use some ingredients that probably aren't easy to find in some areas. The recipes appear to be complete and well explained. The ingredients include healthier food items and exclude milk, cream, sugar, and eggs. If you have to or want to avoid the things which make real ice cream taste so good, you might want to experiment with some of these recipes. While there are low fat recipes in the book, a few of them could not be classified as low fat. There are some formatting issues (extremely small font on the Kindle device and odd white background on parts of the text showing in the Kindle for PC) and there is a table of contents but it is not integrated with the Kindle navigation menu, something I find very important in a recipe book.Overall, I find the title "The Doctor's Ice Cream" to be misleading to the customer and give the book 2 1/2 stars (have to round for Amazon). I wish the title had been more honest about what this book is.