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by James F. Scheer, Charlie Fox, Lynn Allison
A Book Review by Mary
Shomon
If you take a bit of olive oil or butter, and add large amounts of garlic, you can pretty much sautee about anything -- shrimp, mushrooms, peppers, I don't care! -- and I'll think it's the best thing to eat the world. No question about garlic -- you either love it or hate it, but most of us love it, mainly because of the flavor it brings to our favorite dishes.
But lately, we're also becoming more aware that not only is garlic a legendary seasoning for food, it's a veritable medicine chest, with the ability to help deal with a number of medical conditions and ailments.
If you want to know everything there is about garlic and its ability to improve health -- not to mention more than 130 recipes that are a garlic-lovers' delight -- you need the book The Garlic Cure. Written by James F. Scheer, Lynn Allison, and Charlie Fox, the book transforms medical information about the health properties of garlic into a readable, understandable compilation of everything you ned to know about garlic.
Author James F. Scheer has written more than 2000 articles and columns and more than 20 books, mainly in the areas of nutrition and health. Lynn Allison writes a weekly food column for newspapers and more than 30 of her books have been published, ioncluding a number of health topics. Charlie Fox, known as the "Garlic Guru," has given thousands of talks on garlic's effectiveness against illnesses from thousands of years ago until the present, speaking throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan.
In a friendly, accessible style, this team of experts introduces you to various ways garlic can potentially help improve your health, including ways it may be able to help:
A special chapter even focuses on uses of garlic for pet health, and the book concludes with 70 pages of mouth-watering recipes you'll want to share with your favorite garlic-loving friends and family.
In this must-have book, Scheer, Allison and Fox move garlic far beyond the realm of folk medicine, offering a sound, understandable discussion of why garlic is such an important food in our nutritional arsenal. And the recipes -- with everything from Greek Skordalia dip, to Gazpacho soup, to garlic green beans, to pasta primavera (are you hungry yet, because I am!) -- are a garlic lovers dream come true, and mean you have no excuse not to add much more garlic to your life!
Get The Garlic Cure now from Amazon.com,
or contact Alpha Omega Press,
1-888-568-6329
($14.95 plus $3.95 shipping).
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