Fast Food Books

Gave me lots of new fun ideas to decorate my cookies. A very friendly book.

I purchased this book along with another cookie book and was dissapointed. The cookies in the pictures did not look very appetizing and the decorating was very amateurish. I was hoping for something better.

very nice book and the ideas are very nice and simple to do.
the explantion is very simple for every one.

thank you for a great book that halp and keep on helping me during the weekends with my kids!!!

This well illustrated book does a great job of showing you ways to use standard cookie cutter shapes and turn them into additional designs. I bought the Roshco Cookie Cutter set along with this book, without knowing that so many of the unique shapes used in the book are in the set and I have a whole new set of ideas now for future cookie decorations. The steps are very easy to follow and the extra tips on those "professional" finishes helped me take my cookies to a new level.

Now, this is a useful book. I'll keep it in my car console, since I frequently go through drive-thru's. The best part of your book; the section with all the charts that show the carb, calorie, fat, sodium, cholesterol, etc. counts in the various menus. Very cool!

What if somebody told you it was possible to eat fast food all the time, at every meal, and never eat at home again. And, oh by the way, you'll also lose lots and lots of weight, too. You might think they just fell off the looney wagon, right?

Well, call her what you want, but that's exactly what Carla Gray is advocating in her book entitled "The Low Carb Fast Food Diet." Fast food and diet don't usually go hand in hand, but Gray provides her readers with invaluable information that will help them make the right choices when they decide to pick up food from their local fast food drive-thru.

Gray makes it clear she is not telling people to eat fast food. But she realizes it is an inevitable a part of so many of our lives. Because of that, she wanted to arm people with the facts about the foods they were shoving in their mouths from all the popular fast food places and help them make the healthy choices to stay on their low-carb or low-calorie lifestyles.

Expressing her opinion that the low-carb lifestyle is the best way for people to lose weight and improve their health, Gray says people who are livin' la vida low-carb (like me at livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com) are allowed to eat more calories, have greater fat burning ability, don't get as hungry, aren't concerned with controlling their portions, get to eat delicious foods, and enjoy one of the easiest weight loss plans there is!

She provides an excellent overview of what low-carb is in clear, simple language for those who have been living under a rock and don't know how it works. She gets you to look at the way you eat and evaluate why you eat the way you do and notes either you control your carbs or your carbs will control you. By eliminating all high-carb foods from your diet, Gray says you can replace them with "delicious and filling alternatives from your favorite fast food restaurants." She provides a variety of tips about how you need to order your food and what to avoid at each of the major fast food restaurants.

When it comes to eating at a fast food restaurant and staying on your low-carb plan, Gray says you have to know what you can order before you go the fast food restaurants. And, contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always have to be a salad, which ironically is sometimes higher in carbs than a hamburger with the bun! She warns people in her book about "hidden carbs" in foods that may sound like they are healthy, but they are not. And, by all means, if you are going to do the "Low Carb Fast Food Diet," don't feel guilty about doing it! Gray gives you all the tools you need to feel confident about the healthy low-carb choices you can make.

In fact, Gray challenges you to test this diet for yourself by getting a physical check-up before you start and consult with your physician. She is sure you will see significant improvements in your cholesterol, your blood pressure and, of course, your weight! To help you realize what your carb intake is like prior to beginning her diet, Gray suggests you keep a food diary for about a week to tally how many carbs you consume right now. The number will likely surprise you!

Promising this will be the best-tasting, most satisfying way to lose weight you've ever done, Gray encourages her readers to "toss the bread, ditch the rice and throw away the chips" and to just "forget you know the word sugar." The more I read, the more I think I like this woman! The multitude of choices you have at your disposal will make it impossible to find this way of eating boring.

About halfway through the book, Gray gives you a test. No, you don't have to study for it, but you may learn a lot more about the carb content of foods you can order at fast food restaurants than you expected. It is sure to make you yell "holy cow" when you find out the answers! Make sure you check out the total carbs in a Tender Crisp Chicken Sandwich and Large Fries at Burger King! Yikes!

The key to being successful on the "Low Carb Fast Food Diet," Gray proclaims, is to alter your thinking about food and losing weight. Gray says you must embrace this lifestyle and everything it has to offer if you want to be successful at it. Believe it or not, that even means you can have pizza, too! WOO HOO!

Although it was a bit odd in a book predominantly about low-carb eating, Gray does include an obligatory chapter on calories for people who have chosen to do that weight loss method over low-carb. Interestingly, many of the fast foods you can have on low-calorie diets are forbidden if you are doing low-carb. Hopefully people won't make the mistake of getting one of the low-calorie foods thinking it will help them on their low-carb plan. But Gray makes it abundantly clear in her book that this one particular section is JUST for people on low-calorie diets.

The entire second half of the book is an exclusive Pocket Carb Chart created by Gray for people to take with them when they visit a fast food restaurant. It shows the various entrees, portion size, total carbs, calories, fiber, cholesterol, fat and sodium content of the foods you can order. She even makes a handy pocket-sized version of the chart you can order separately from the book. Gray encourages her readers to visit her web site at www.lowcarbfastfooddiet.com to find the most up-to-date information about fast food offerings.

So, I guess it really is possible to eat fast food and lose weight the low-carb way!

I bought a copy of this book for myself and liked it so much I am ordering a second copy as a gift for my best friend. It is full of good information no matter what kind of a diet you might be following. I am always starting a low carb diet and then finding myself tempted to cheat, mainly because I am too tired to cook after a long day at work. Ms. Gray points out how I can eat a hamburger, throw away all or part of the bun and not mess up my low carb eating. One chapter called "The Good, The Bad and the Holy Cow!" has lots of good tips about healthy fast food eating.

My favorite part though, is the Carb Chart in the back of the book. I am keeping this in my car so I have a good reference to use when I get fast food. The chart is thorough and includes lots of restaurants. It is nice to have a book that doesn't bog you down with too much technical stuff about losing weight but still gives me the information I want to know.

This book has some good information in it, but I was able to get about the same thing by visiting the websites myself for the fast food places I like.

I received this book as a gift. I am a single parent always on the run with work, teenagers in sports, dating, school, etc and found it difficult to get all 3 of us together for meals. With each kid going different directions and eating mainly fast food this book helped all of us know how to make healthy choices at the drive thru. With a teenager getting ready to head off to college, and we all know what they eat while away at college, this book with it's easy to read carb chart will help my college kids still eat healthy even when heading for the fast food drive thru. I think this is a great graduation gift for those getting ready to head off to school and away from Mom's cooking...

This is the one I keep reaching for my fave cook book quick & good.
Cori

This book is easy to read and has a few good recipes. However, a tofu-lover will have a greater appreciation for it than others. . .

Great tasting recipes using normal ingredients. And quick to prepare

This small, humor-laden vegan cookbook has many excellent recipes, and the Mushroom Stroganoff completely surprised some non-vegetarian friends that I had over to dinner one night. They wondered aloud how I, as a vegetarian, could eat something that obviously had lots of meat and dairy in it, and were surprised to hear it had neither. They also thought I must have spent a lot of time on it, but (thanks to pre-sliced mushrooms at Whole Foods) it only took 15 minutes to prepare. I have had several requests for this recipe every time I make it.

At first I was skeptical that the dairyless sour cream could taste anything like the real thing. I was pleasantly surprised! I'm not a vegan, but now it's the only kind of "sour cream" I'll eat. Very good with Mexican food.

The only recipe I could not make successfully was the blueberry coffee cake. I followed the directions to the letter, but ended up throwing the whole thing out. I may try again someday.

Delia and Polly sound like a couple of nuts. I like that in my friends, and hope to meet them someday.

Enjoy the recipes!

This is a picture of America that you don't get elsewhere! She worked inside fast food restaurants to research this book, and I think she has done a stellar job here. Any American could learn a lot from reading this fine, fine book.

A very readable book while addressing important contemporary issues related to immigration and the consumer economy. Highly recommended.

Clearly the result of exhaustive research, this book takes traditionally very dry material and presents a highly readable text that identifies fascinating perspectives on the American Dream.

Recommended without reservation.

Sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar spent four years working in a Burger King as a part of her research on this book. She interviewed a wide range of immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. The result is an interesting study in immigration, ethnicity, labor and community in New York City.

As a white American who has worked in fast food before, I was surprised to read about just how much is going on with fast food restaurants in a major metropolis, both in terms of the labor side and the business side. My experience was archtypal middle America - the kid working to make extra money. I think that this description still applies for the vast majority of the country, but the more I think about the faces behind the counter of many fast food restaurants in Washington, DC, Talwar is right - fast food is the entry for many immigrants into the mainstream American workforce. Accordingly, this book is a must-read for those who want to consider how immigrants are assimilated into modern America.

The main limitation is that it is a study of immigrant labor and fast food in New York City. The broad range of ethnic diversity and community experiences that were drawn upon for this book simply do not exist anywhere else in the United States. I cannot think of any other city that could readily provide the "United Nations" workforce of the Chinatwon McDonald's described in this book. Therefore, how applicable Talwar's work is to the country at large must be called into question. Also, do not be fooled by the cover into thinking that this book is anything like "Fast Food Nation." It is a specific (and appropriately narrow) sociological study, and lacks the range of that excellent book.

Great program. Helping me to understand my weight problem and helping to get the weight off and stay off.

I guess one could argue with a fair amount of validity that eating healthy and fast food our a rather distinct contrast in terms. The best advice if one wants to eat healthy at a fast food place is...don't! But let's face it...most of us simply are not going to heed that advice because our lives are so on the go that fast food is often not only the best option but the only option, particularly for lunch.

Bob Green's book takes you through just about any fast food chain you can think of as well as many of the more medium-priced sit down chains such as Applebees, Bennigans, Red Lobster, and more. You're sure to find your favorites from McDonalds to Arbys and Quizno's to Jack in the Box. Even pizza chains like Dominos, Little Caesers and Pizza hut. Bob provides the best choices for healthy eating at all of these establishments complete with all the nutritional information you'll need to make an educated selection. Bob even gives suggestions for beverages as well.

Most of the selections should be fairly common sense among eaters, Obviously a grilled chicken sandwich without the mayo is going to be much better for you than that double Whopper with cheese, but it's still nice to have all the selections and nutritional information in one neat little book.

I went to the bookstore the other day, and as I was browsing the new releases when I have came upon this little book!
It is really comprehensive. It would be a great addition to any person's personal diet plan to follow.
It is not easy to eat healthy when you go out, but with this book you can have the convenience of fast food, still eat well and not give up on your diet goals! I would highly recommend this book!

This book is really good when you find yourself trying to decide what the least of all evils is while away from home. It is written as "advise." Example: "If you are at "Such & Such" restaurant, the best thing on the menu would be A, B, or C; Do Not even think about D, E, or F." While being full of great info, as I read my little voice was whispering "Common Sense." "Never order anything with Alfredo in the description." Well, we know that! But, it is also definitely an eye opener in some respects.

I ordered this book in hopes of attaining a precise (Cal., Fiber, Fat) breakdown of the elusive & mysterious entrée's we find when we're out and you won't find that info here, so I am a bit disappointed, on the other hand, if I had looked through it before I bought it I still might have gone ahead because Greene takes the guess work out of ordering a meal by giving you a few of your best options were you to go to these establishments. All in all, this book is very informative, but you can survive without it, and probably find one with more precise nutrition information.

This is a great cookbook for picky children. Unlike far too many everyday cookbooks, this one has plenty of large, full-color photographs so that young menu assistants can get an idea of what Pork Lo Mein is going to look like before it shows up on the plate. Thankfully, it also lives up to its title: no reliance on cream-of-something soups and fistfuls of grated cheddar to make these recipes palatable. The recipes are easy to cook, and the lists of ingredients usually quite brief (also making for economical meals). However, although the recipes are nicely varied and perfectly satisfying for weeknight dinners, they do lack a more adult sense of complexity of flavor. If you are more than a beginning cook, or if you crave something more savory than a quarter teaspoon of ground thyme or sage in your entree, this won't satisfy you. But if, like me, you need a cookbook that can help you herd reluctant children back to the dinner table, this is a very good choice.

I completely agree with the other reviewers about this cookbook. I bought it about a month ago and it is fast becoming my all-time favorite cookbook. In fact, I made 2 items out of it last night for dinner. The recipes use common or easy to find ingredients. The dishes are very tasty and even please the palate of my VERY picky 10 year old daughter. Definitely recommend for anyone who is trying to eat healthier.

So far my family loves all the recipes from this cookbook. The recipes are simple and tasty. I haven't seen any recipes calling for extravagant or gourmet ingredients, which is beyond helpful for my families day to day meals.

I love to cook, but weekdays are chaotic so having this easy to use fast and healthy cookbook around is wonderful. Even the simple and "classic" recipes like sloppy joes are great. I make a double batch and use the leftovers for lunch burritos.

I find the index more useful than the table of contents when searching for recipes. And I wish it had more dessert and and snack recipes.

I think if you are looking for something that provides recipes with readily available ingredients and short prep and cooking times - this one is a winner.

These recipes are wonderfully easy and taste great! All of the health information is included. It uses common ingredients and common low-fat / non-fat alternatives, but is not extreme (i.e. no carb / no fat). These are healthy options that are enjoyable too.

I really enjoyed reading Schlosser's Fast- Food Nation. He really explained and elaborated the history and evolution of the industry, with pro's and con's. As well as focusing on the history of the fast- food industry, he connects with Upton Sinclair's, "The Jungle," talking about the meat- packing industry and how it effects the fast food industry today. Personally, I don't eat fast- food but it was very interesting to read about how it got started and how today, it's gotten to the point that there is a McDonald's in almost every state in the U.S. as well as in Europe.
Overall, I rate this book 4 stars and look forward to read more of Schlosser's books in the future.

Fast Food Nation chronicles the history of what have become today's largest and most successful fast food chains. He uncovers the dark secrets that lie behind the "all-american meal"
Schlosser does a great job of keeping the reader entertained with interesting facts and he makes it hard for the reader to put the book down. This being Schlosser's first book is acutely reminiscant of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" it takes a direct look at meat packing plants and tells us "why the fries taste so good." After reading this book, the reader may or may not have a hard time even looking at fast food restaurants.

Fastfood Nation is a detailed research into the fastfood industry. It appears to be marketed as an expose detailing how fastfood makes you fat and ruins the world. Happily it isn't that. Instead it is a thorough fact based description of all aspects of the fastfood industry.

Schlosser obsessively details: The history of fastfood in general, dwelling on histories of the nation wide chains, and with references to interviews with founders if the founders were still alive to interview. Case studies of workers at all levels of the industry and discussion of the economics that make franchises work. Where the ingredients in the food come from, including the farmers, the corporations that distribute food to the various fastfood companies and how the flavors are designed and mass produced. And finally how the fastfood industry is changing and expanding globally today.

I am curious as to what kind of field research Schlosser did for this book. His descriptions of how the fastfood world works as far as hows and whys of worker treatment are dead on. (I have worked enough fastfood to leave sizable gaps of "seasonal worker" on my resume.) Obviously he interviewed people, but it seems like he also did follow up interviews over a longer period of time perhaps a couple of years. It is good to see someone with a job that presumably comes with benefits who has a firm grasp of the situation.

I recommend this book to the curious. If you are looking for a 200 page essay on why fastfood is bad then look elsewhere. This isn't that book and doesn't even push that conclusion. However, if you are looking for a well written report on all aspects of the history and workings of the fastfood industry then you will love this. It is obsessively detailed. Clearly Schlosser has a grasp of the subject.

We have waited paitently for the release of this book as it has been 2 years since we were told it was going to be released. Time and effort are clearly visible as it gives reference of over 800 new glasses that the previous editions lacked. Many of the small mistakes about certain glasses have also been corrected.

This is clearly at the top of its class for promotional glasses and is more extensive in categories then all the other so called glass books available on the market. As with any collector book this one has prices in it and not all of them are reliable as the common items appear to be overpriced and the high end glasses appear to be underpriced. The only dissapointment I had overall with the book was its combining black and white photos on same pages as color shots, since part of the page is in color it would be nice to have the whole page in color.

In any event Tom Hoder did an excellent job overall and this book will still stand above others as the one people will use as a guide.

I confess that I am a little disappointed in the revised 3rd edition of this book which I purchased after seeing an earlier edition in the reference section of our local library. I am a collector of Big Top peanut butter song glasses, and this book seems to be one of the few that has information about these glasses. When I looked up the Big Top glasses in this latest edition, there was actually less text and fewer photographs of these glasses than there had been in the earlier edition!! For this reason, I have a hard time considering the third edition "revised and expanded." There are also a number of Big Top glasses with children's songs that are not listed (London Bridge, Farmer in the Dell, Little Bo Peep, Billy Boy, etc.)

I bought two other books at the same time as this one.. Chase and Kelly's "Collectible Drinking Glasses" and John Hervey's "Collector's Guide to Cartoon and Promotional Drinking Glasses". All three are good, but this one is the one I keep coming back to, while on the hunt at flea markets etc.

I am new to collectible glasses so I can't speak to issues of accuracy or pricing.

Hope this helps!

I have one of the first editions of this book from 1986. The fast food industry had come under fire from numerous consumer groups and health organizations and was changing over to "healthier" alternatives in food choices as well as preparation. I remember McD's using animal fat to fry french fries. Death and heart disease never tasted so good.

This book is interesting because you can compare what the nutritional info for your favorite fast food is next to a heathier alternative. You should see the differences from 1986 industry wide! Overall, less fat, and calories, but still way more than needed in a healthy diet. It isn't written in a "holier - than - thou" tone. More of a matter of fact manner

This covers every major fast food chain, even some that are mostly regional.

This book is both encouraging and depressing because of the rising incidence of morbid obesity (I'm in that category) in the U.S. and the dependence we have on fast food to feed our children. The food eaten sparingly, isn't going to kill anyone but a full time diet of it can! Encouraging because, believe it or not, fast food IS healthier than it was.
This book originally came out around the time it became mandatory for restaurant chains and food processors to disclose nutritional information. I remember trying to read the small dark print on dark background from a little folded brochure.

I've kept my old original copy even with the ketchup and mustard stains.

Although the authors tend to have a low opinion of high protein/low carbohydrate diets, which seem to be proving themselves over and over again (and work for me very well) the book is still quite useful in finding out the number of grams of protein, carbohydrates, and fat that are contained in several of the most popular fast foods that we eat.

The book is arranged in alphabetical order so it is easy to locate the restaurant chain that you are looking for. The products are then listed with a summary of its ingredients in up to fifteen categories. The entire content of the food is then rated with a "gloom" factor, which tells you how bad or good the item is in comparison with other fast foods. This is a good quick-reference feature for those who have no idea whatsoever about what they are looking for in a food. The book also has an alphabetical listing of the same restaurants with the actual ingredients of their food items. This can be very useful for those who have certain dietary restrictions and need to ascertain specific ingredients in their food. In the front section of the book there are listings of foods that are the highest in saturated fats, cholesterol, and sodium, for example, and there are also listings for food lowest in fat, and the fiber content of foods.

In general the book is quite useful, although it may be outdated. Since foods change every so often in fast food restaurants, you may not be able to find the specific item that you are looking for. For example, I could not find Wendy's chicken nuggets (I have the 2nd edition - paperback, 1991) which is the first item I get when I go to Wendy's. But you can probably make an educated guess by looking at some of the other foods that are similar. This guide may eventually prove itself quite valuable since I don't see many books that actually list the ingedients of popular fast foods. Most books tell you the protein/carb/fat content of one egg, 1 cup of corn flakes, 1 slice of wheat toast, etc., and are suited only for those who are going to prepare their own meals all the time.

My husband and I both hunt so needless to say we have a lot of venison in our freezer. This book is great for needing new receipes. The cost is well worth what you get. It's fun to make some of these for friends and share your receipes with them. It will definately make the weary love venison!

Well-cooked game is healthy. It feeds the body and the soul.

I do not myself hunt for deer and venison, since my preferences favor the bird on the wing in flight from a pointing dog. But I join my friends at the venison table when invited, and we'll get some venison at Savernor's in honor of Julia Child once in a while.

It is the right thing to do. My best hunting friends are gourmet cooks. It is the right and best natural solution. I am not ready at my age to give into the common neurosis of the day about meats, etc. Although I do agree that we eat way too much corporate food that is poorly fed and poorly cultivated. It deprives us not only of our nutrition but also of our sense of what it is to be alive ourselves.

I am increasingly supportive of the whole/fresh foods movement, and I think there is no substitute for good game that has lived in the relative wild and has been cared for not only for the food value but also for their spirit and beauty.

This book is full of nice ideas, and can provide many hours of joy and pleasure in preparing that special meal at a special time. My copy came from a good friend who is a gourmet cook. In fact, as I reflect on it, all my shooting friends are gourmets.

If you cannot eat what you kill, then you are not right for the world of guns, dogs, a glass of wine and a day in the field. If you cannot see the humanity and care in all, you are also losing your connections with the touchstones of life. My family has lived on a nice farm in Ohio for about the last 200 years. They raised, loved, cared for and lived side by side with -- and then off of -- the things they could raise or slaughter with their hands.

All of them are great cooks and all of them are sane and upright human beings.

When I sit down to a gourmet dinner with the game or catch of the day, I celebrate my ancestors and often wish we could all return to the simpler days, free of the maddening crowds and the neurotic tendencies of our current age.