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Culinarytherapy: The Girl's Guide to Food for Every Mood

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Food = Happiness
Honor your inner gourmet chick

Culinarytherapy: The Girl's Guide to Food for Every Mood
Beverly West
Manufacturer: Universe
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0789309815
Release Date: 2003-10-17

Book Description

From the author of the cult sensation Cinematherapy (over 270,000 copies of the series in print) comes a cookbook for women celebrating the therapeutic power of food.

Every woman knows that food is more than than just fuel-it's self-medication that, when administered properly, with just the right amount of fat, salt, sugar, and chocolate, can cure everything from a bad break up to a full-fledged identity crisis. Whether a gal is feeling starved for attention and ready to bask in her own limelight (Diva Dishes), or looking to add a little kick to her romance (Nude Food), Culinarytherapy features recipes to feed her every need.

- Fed up and ready to blow your lid? Let off some of that steam with a Recipe for Revenge like Fried Men and deep-fat-fry that pent up angst in effigy.
- Feeling a pang in the pit of your emotional center? Fill the void with a comfort food recipe like Change Your World Chocolate Chip Cookies and soothe that emotional tummy ache.
- Thirsty for meaning? Transcend with some Food for the Soul like Tranquility Chicken and nourish your body and spirit.

Other recipes include Self-esteem Salad, Be Your Own Best Friend Fries, Dump Cake, and Healthy Boundary Burritos, as well as fun sidebars like Food Facials, Cinematherapy movie-viewing suggestions for every chapter, Beige Food for When You're Feeling Khaki,
and more!

Customer Reviews:

Food = Happiness.......2006-10-21

It says in big print on the back cover "Food = Happiness" and it sure does, if it's tasty, that is, and if you don't overdo it. I was a big girl in school, not big boned, fat, because I over did it. Now I'm thin, because I watch my weight, but I still love to eat, so instead of stuffing myself, I eat in moderation, but I don't moderate the taste. For me, food does equal happiness. It is possible to eat, love it, be happy about it and be thin.

Okay, that said, this isn't a diet cookbook. I don't really like diet cookbooks. I like good food, but as I said above, you don't have to overdo it. Though there are some recipes here that will challenge any girl's will power, like "The Simultaneous Orgasm" on page 82. This is a chocolate souffle recipe that will melt your lips to your lover's (the author recommends you and he simultaneously eat it, thus the title of the recipe) plus knock your socks off.

There is food for every mood, for every occasion, for dinner and dessert, in this sorta, kinda chick lit cookbook and strangely enough, I use it a lot. Of the zillion and one cookbooks I own, this is absolutely one of my favorites. Oh, yes, my favorite recipe in the book is "Smart Blonde Profiterole." Emmm, Good.

Review Submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

Honor your inner gourmet chick.......2004-12-02

Or your Inner Guy or vengeful vamp or penny-saving patisserie-dreaming Pollyanna. Beverly West has conjured up culinary, movie, quote and libation magic yet again. The recipes are wonderful too.

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