Review: Outstanding Diabetes Dessert Cookbook
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
As a devout home cook with experience in a commercial kitchen, I am always on the lookout for high quality and healthy cookbooks.  Dick’s Desserts and Cookies Diabetes Cookbook hits that mark.  The added plus is that I can serve these delicious desserts to anyone that visits my kitchen, with or without Diabetes.Before I wrote this review I perused the book’s existing reviews and I notice a negative review about this book that, in my opinion, is way off base.  The reviewer knocks the book for a recipe using 4 bananas instead of a measured amount of bananas.  The only time I have ever seen a measured amount of bananas is when they are being mashed, other than that it is always a number of the fruit.  I could only find one recipe in this excellent cookbook that used 2 large bananas, sliced and layered on top of the desert.  He then mentions wrong ingredients in a recipe that I could simply not find.He does have a somewhat valid point about using granulated sugar in the recipes.  But I could only find 3 out of the book’s more than 40 recipes that used granulated sugar and it is certainly easy enough to convert to sugar substitute.  Finally his challenge to using a glucose meter makes no sense at all.  I understand the importance of using a glucose meter to monitor sugar levels, but it is not a reflection of the quality of a recipe but rather the monitoring of a diabetic’s lifestyle.I would have to say that this person is way off base and has little basis for his low rating of this diabetic cookbook.Again, I believe that Dick’s Desserts & Cookies Diabetes Cookbook is an excellent collection of healthy diabetic dessert and cookie recipes that will become a favorite for any home cook.