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Rx: A Month of Suppers

by Jean Carr B.Sc. M.B. Ch.B

173 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); B+W pictures; catalogue #05-0565; ISBN 1-4120-5667-5; US$18.00, C$20.58, EUR15.00, £10.50

Cookery for a healthy life, with advice for those who have never learned to cook, are poor, or are faced with lifestyle changes for health reasons and need some guidance.

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About the Book

About the Author

Excerpts

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About the Book

This is intended as a teaching book for a basic understanding of nutritional needs, catering to novices, seniors, and those with dietary restrictions, whether rich or poor. It includes preventive health advice, and a common-sense approach to cooking good food with nothing to excess. To the best of my knowledge the science is accurate. I have not sought sponsorship from any agency, in order to preserve freedom from bias. There is no promotion of fad diets for personal gain.

If groups such as the Heart and stroke foundation, Allergy foundation, or Diabetic foundation, should wish to recommend the book to their constituencies, the publishers are advised to give discounts for bulk printing.

Should it prove popular, I intend to assign the revenue rights to charities, supporting education, peace activities, and international aid, irrespective of nationality or religious conviction.

Future titles in progress are Traditional Foods for Coeliacs and The Contemplative Cook.

This is the outcome of a very fortunate life and a hands-on cooking experience of 65 years, through war, education and a happy life with a chance to hand on my good fortune to more than my family, as did my mother who taught me to be a thrifty housewife, how to cook and to prize education as a means to help others.

I like to describe myself as "a Jill of all trades, but mistress of none" daughter, student, physiologist, physician, wife, mother and amateur artist.

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About the Author

Born on Tyneside, England during the depression of the 1930s into a working class family, educated at the local grammar school, and at the ancient University of Glasgow. Finally becoming a doctor, university teacher, research worker, and family physician. Now retired and living in Victoria BC, Canada.

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Excerpts

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James Bay Writes
by Ann-Lee and Gordon Switzer

...How often have you mused, ''What should we have for dinner?'' A book put out by a James Bay author will serve up many and varied answers. A Month of Suppers by retired physician Jean Carr is just that: 30 menus for the main meal of the day, complete with recipies and suggestions. Like the previous volume, this one is enhanced by the author's artwork, drawings of Mt. Baker and locations in the Mediterranean. In her Winnipeg-based practice Jean Carr found that many of her patients had no idea how to prepare nutritious meals, especially those people on low incomes. Thus besides the recipes she has many suggestions for modifying according to diet restrictions, such as low salt, low cholesterol and high fiber, as indicated by abbreviations and asterisks. The recipes themselves range from basic potatoes and cauliflower or tomato soup to stuffed Portobello mushrooms and even pizza in a gluten-free variation. A month of suppers could help the novice cook and inspire the most seasoned gourmet.

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"On the flight on the way home, I studied Jean's cook book and would like to recommend it to every doctor in the world to put it first on the prescription pad of every patient, no matter what ailment brings the person to the doctor. I have learned from George YOU'RE WHAT YOU EAT and watch all of the shortcomings that you have inherited"
- Signed Christa Studzinski

"I would like to give this to most of my discharge patients. It is difficult to find proper recipes for many of them. I am particularly glad that you use so many fruits and vegetables, and that you also use the microwave freely"

"It's so good to read a practical book where the author is unafraid to pass on her comments, in each and every chapter. Your appreciation of food as the seed of life is a refreshing change from the common view today of Food as Art! I've found it to be very instructive - I now understand diabetes more fundamentally - and wholesome. The recipes are simple and complex at the same time."
- Signed Maggie Taylor

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