A review by caroline_carnivorous
The 150 Healthiest Comfort Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About How to Make Over Your Diet and Lose Weight While Still Enjoying the Foods You Love and Crave by Jonny Bowden, Jeannette Bessinger

2.0

As a norwegian, I'm pretty shocked. Each recipe has a description by the author, which coupled with looking at the foods in this, really opened my eyes to how unhealthy american food is. With some of these recipes I was thinking: How is this healthy?! But I guess compared to what it normally would be... Also it seems like americans seem to eat out a lot? And apparently that food is terrible? It's so crazy to me. I also reacted to that the author kept perpetuating the myth that MSG is bad, which is a pretty common thing in the US.

Anyway, the book is split up into mains (poultry, meat, seafood and meatless), side dishes, desserts, breakfasts and lastly appetizers, snacks and drinks. Kind of a weird order if you ask me. All the recipes are listed in the contents and the appendix of course, but also for each section, which I found redundant. There is also quite a lack of pictures in this, I think that really would have helped sell the whole ''healthy comfort food'' thing.

If things are really that bad in the US... I guess this book is needed.