150 Best Indian, Asian, Caribbean and more Diabetes Recipes

Cooking diabetic-friendly cuisine can be challenging, especially while remaining true to particular cultural heritages. In this cookbook, Khan, a professor of food and nutrition at the Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts at George Brown College in Toronto, has created recipes to help people enjoy authentic multicultural cuisine while also preventing and managing diabetes. Recipes are organized by region, starting with South Asian cuisine from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, then Chinese, Hispanic and Caribbean cuisine respectively. Helpful features include nutritional charts and ingredient descriptions. Cooking tips and advice for healthy eating are sprinkled throughout the book. Some recipes include useful suggestions for side dishes to complement the meal. A multicultural pantry list will guide the aspiring chef on where to buy ingredients not typically found in the conventional kitchen. Even if diabetes is not a particular concern, readers wishing to experience cuisine from these regions while remaining mindful of a healthy lifestyle can spice up their usual fare choosing dishes from the myriad of soups, stews, curries, stir-fries and kabobs featured in this book. Photographs are beautiful but sparse, clustered on a few pages in two sections of the book. (Oct.)