The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook, 2nd Edition: Two Hundred Gourmet & Homestyle Recipes for the Food Allergic Family

This cookbook offers a wide variety of allergen-free foods that are easy to make and easily modified. I would have given 5/5 stars but there are no pictures of what the prepared foods look like. Use your imagination, your taste buds, and your kitchen! 4/5 stars

This is the first book I have ever been in love with! I am breastfeeding my daughter who is currently 7 months old--due to her allergies I can not eat anything with dairy, soy, eggs or nuts. ALL the recipes in this book do not include these ingredients. It is so nice to be able to be able to pick up a cookbook and make any recipe in it. After trying many of her recipes, I have decided I eventually want to make everything in this book at least once. I will never be deprived from exciting, tasty food again! I wish I knew of this book earlier--if I knew of any other families with similar allergies I would rush them a copy of this book!Cybele's recipes include a great variety of restaurant quality foods from gourmet to home style. All the tastes I love are included--so if I am craving something I used to be able to eat--I can find something like it in her book. When you eat her food you do not feel like anything is missing. I have always tried to stick to organic, whole foods both for taste and health; her book incorporates this with the addition of excluding allergenic foods. I can serve these dishes to guests without any hesitation--in fact I prepared a gourmet 5-course meal using the recipes in this book for some good friends last night (who did not have food allergies) and they all raved about the meal. Everyone cleaned their plates, some asked for seconds and one joked "If this is the way you eat with allergies I think we all should get some allergies."Cybele's book is wonderfully organized. I love the provided grocery list, with the brands she uses listed, and where to order the foods from if I am unable to find them in our grocery store. It is so nice to have this work done for me!I recommend any fans to check out Cybele's blog where she offers even more ideas, recipes and family updates.If a second edition were to ever be made the only suggestion for change I would have would be to include pictures of prepared foods.

I was diagnosed with multiple food allergies a few months ago, and I couldn't begin to imagine what in the world I could possibly eat besides fruits and vegetables. I did a little research on the different allergy cookbooks out there, and as this one had the highest reviews, I purchased it. That was probably the best decision I made regarding my new diet. I have tried many of the recipes, and all of them have been fabulous! Even my boyfriend, who is definitely a "normal" food person, tried all of the dishes, and in his words - "Good, not quite like what I'm used to, but I'll definitely eat it again."Since this cookbook eliminates all of the common food allergens, it can be used for anyone allergic to any combination of these foods. It also has suggestions for substituting back in "normal" ingredients, so you can pick and choose which foods to eliminate depending on your specific needs.Another great thing about this book - it doesn't use any particularly strange ingredients. I was able to find just about everything at my local Co-op (and I live in a small town). A lot of the other allergy cookbooks use really off-the-wall ingredients that nobody's ever heard of, but all of the ingredients in this cookbook were readily available to me.One other great thing - the author prefaces each recipe with background about it, or what to pair with it for a meal, or other useful information.All in all, this book has allowed me to continue eating the foods I'm used to - even if they have different ingredients. My favorite recipe so far - the Classic Chocolate Layer cake. It tastes almost exactly like "normal" chocolate cake! The banana cupcakes are also great; spaghetti with turkey meatballs is wonderful; you can't even taste the difference in the pancakes recipe; the biscuits are amazing; oatmeal raisin cookies are delectable; the chicken marsala is spectacular. This book is the one to get for multiple food allergies!!

I have not yet found a cookbook that significantly fits my dietary needs. I need no gluten, no dairy, no corn, no vinegar. My husband needs also to have no eggs. There are 3 or 4 recipes (out of 200!)in this cookbook that I found useful. There are increasing numbers of people and their health practitioners who are realizing the vast problem of yeast in our typical diets, and this requires the elimination of all yeast, sugar and vinegar-containing products. These people are also realizing the overdose of corn we are all getting from corn syrup being in almost every product on grocery store shelves (seriously, other than the produce section try finding 10 products without corn syrup in a standard grocery store!) and thus many people now have sensitivities to corn and most of us should be cutting back on corn products anyway. Also, most corn now is GMO or contaminated by GMO which is a huge concern.

This book is deceiving - I bought it for my child who is gluten & dairy intolerant. So many of the recipes call for barley flour, which is not gluten free. I had not read the description closely enough, and assumed that since it was free of the top 8 food allergens, was a whole foods allergy cook book, and we have another of Cybele Pascal's cookbooks that is safe to use, that this was ok.It is not for those who need to be gluten free. For our family, this was a waste of money.

She uses BARLEY flour which is NOT GLUTEN-FREE & oat flour is only safe for gluten intolerant people if the oats were grown and ground-up at a dedicated wheat-free facility. 99% of the recipes use BARLEY & OATS for baking. I thought for an ALLERGY cookbook gluten-free ingredients would be eliminated, not just wheat-free.On the positive-side, the recipes look quite appealing.

Good recipes but some contain barley which is a no for me. Not sure how to modify the recipes yet so have not used much. Check out her easy cooking 30 minutes. ...I'm a shift worker and it's my new best friend!!