I recently purchased this book for my dad. The side effects of cancer are so grueling. This book is organized for quick access in the first few pages with all of the recipes categorized by symptom or side effects a person may be having. Also gives great menu ideas. It gives clear advice on what to do to use food as a FUEL for the FIRE to FIGHT the cancer. Very organized, sprial bound, easy to read and the recipes are great. I would recommend this book to ANYONE going through cancer. Also great for the caregiver to know too.

A durable hardcover book with spiral binding completely inside so there is no problem with food getting inside the spirals or the book not lying flat, "Eating Well Through Cancer" is a top level cookbook. When someone goes through chemotherapy many changes take place within their body. For many they become nauseous after treatment, experience lowered white blood cell counts, diarrhea, constipation or other side effects. The recipes in this book are specifically designed to help with these and other problems.

Recipes are organized by symptom (diarrhea, sore mouth, etc.) and by treatment stage (day of treatment, post treatment). Each one that I tried was easy to prepare and absolutely delicious. There is definitely no sacrifice of taste for the sake of nutrition in these recipes.

The author answers questions such as "What should I eat prior to treatment?", or "Is there a certain time of day that is better for eating?" and similar concerns of the cancer patient. The final chapters include changing eating habits to a healthier style post treatment or prior to having problems.

Whether you are undergoing treatment or just want to eat healthier as a preventative measure, this book has it all. With cancer being as prevalent as it is today, even if you don't know someone with cancer sooner or later you will. When they return home after a treatment and you want to help by taking something over for dinner you will be glad you have this book. It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who loves to cook for others.

Maintaining an adequate caloric intake for cancer patients is always problematic. Food is a medicine for the body as well as for the spirit. A truly impressive specialty cookbook, Eating Well Through Cancer offers more than two hundred recipes designed to ease the side effects of chemotherapy. Enhanced with menus, caregiver ideas, nutritional analysis, diabetic exchanges, culinary medical tips, food lists, and post treatment recipes, Eating Well Through Cancer should be a part of every family's cookbook shelf where a loved one is fighting against cancer both during and after treatment.

If you've never had the pleasure of eating at Mike Anderson's restuarant, then you've missed out on a rare treat. This cookbook gives you the recipes for all of his menu items and then some more.
I highly recommend you try the stuffed potatoes, the Norman (with either fish or shrimp), Mike's Special or any of the other hundreds of fantastic recipes in this book.
This is the only cookbook I use when it comes to South Louisiana flavor!
I recently moved from MS to PA and Mike Anderson's is the one thing I will truly miss.

If you have ever eaten at Mike Anderson's restaurants in New Orleans or Baton Rouge you know how good it gets. This cookbook lets you create some of the best south Louisiana seafood, make that the best seafood period, you will ever eat. Some of my favorites from the restaurant like Oysters Gaspard, The Guitreau, Mike's Special and the House Salad Dressing taste as though they are served straight out of Mike Anderson's kitchen. The recipes are easy to understand and simple to make. If there is only one Louisiana cookbook in your cupboard, this should be it!

If you have ever eaten anything cooked in Louisiana, you know it is good. This cookbook teaches anyone how to make the delicious foods from Louisiana no matter where they are from! Easy to follow recipes include appetizers, salads, gumbos, soups, desserts - If you are looking to impress someone with some Cajun cooking this book will show you how!

Rarely does a comprehesive book cover the known work of an artist and open and close the issue. Persac is little known outside of Louisiana. He is a major early artist who documents Louisiana life in the late pre Civil War era. Kudos to the authors, sepecially Prof. Bacot. Thank you for this book.

thumbed thru this great book at Barns and Noble and was hoping it would be less expensive on the net. I knew Prof. Carleton and took his history class at LSU. The book "The River" is seriously the best I have seen considering the real history of Baton Rouge as I know it to be. All of the "recent" characters that are noted are real to me. Mr. Lloyd Collett was my neighbor back in the 50's when he first invisioned the company that he founded. United Companies was born on Eugene Street in the 50's and has blown into a mega company. Others noted in the book are just as acurate to my knowledge and I've known them all at one time or the other. It feels like my history in this city - from 1942 to present. Prof. Carleton was in command of a wealth of history regarding this area - politically and otherwise. I wish he had not been taken at such an early age. The pictures are beyond great. Have one for me Tom - wherever you are.

Growing up in Louisiana, the culture and cuisine was all around me. Restaurants all over the area created the mouth-watering cajun and creole dishes which everyone associates with Louisiana. A crawfish boil was a common weekend activity when the shellfish were in season, and the rest of the week was spent using the leftovers to create other incredible dinners.

My mother swore by the River Road Recipes series of cookbooks. I had countless meals of delicious Louisiana foods, from etoufee to jambalaya. Now, in my own kitchen a thousand miles away, I cook from this cookbook. The recipes are easy to prepare and delicious to eat. The only problem I have encountered is difficulty finding specific ingredients. But these are easy to replace, and the recipe does not suffer much.

If you want to spice up your cooking and recreate some of the south's greatest cuisine in your kitchen, this cookbook will get you well on your way.

Let the good times roll!

Slow Cookin' in the Fast Lane is the best slow cooker cookbook I've seen. Each meal takes fifteen minutes or less to prepare...then stick it in the cooker in the morning and have a delicious hot, home cooked meal when you get home at night. It has very simple recipes and recipes even my little picky eaters like. A must-have cookbook if you own a slow cooker/crock pot and have a busy schedule!

I guess I would give this book more like 4 1/2 stars. My fiance is from New Orleans and I wanted to serve more native dishes but in a healthier way. This book is just the ticket. The only thing I'd change is a few more of the "traditional" recipes but what is in there is very good with easy-to-follow directions. I especially like the way it shows you the difference between the original and lighter recipes. My future mother in law has used the book for years and really likes it. I can't wait to try more recipes.

My husband --- like so many others--- is on a modified diet. This cookbook took already delicious recipes and modified them with the help of a licensed dietitian to fit our newly apdopted healthier lifestyle. The nutrition notes give ideas on how to cut the recipe even further plus lets you know what was your saving in calories, fat, salt... I like the sidebars stories; They add interest. I also like the "Something Extra" section at the end. The Curried Chicken Salad is a luncheon favorite at work.

Tim Parrish does a wonderful job of bringing his young male, and female characters to life in these stories com plete with their southern creole accents in tact. Its a book that almost any man can relate to his youth and indentify with some of the things happening in these stories. They bring back a real sence of nestalgia. They may not be of events thats actually heppened to you but they are universal enough to transend certain cultural boundries. Parrish tells some delightfull stories, not too deep or bruting just really good tales. Will the female population like it or relate as much? probably not but if you liked the movie "Stand By Me" then you will like the book too. and

Having grown up in south Louisiana, I can identify with the characters and life struggles that Tim Parrish portrays in his impressive collection of short stories, Red Stick Men.

We all know a hardware man, an exterminator and a foreman that has unassumingly crossed our path in life, 'just doing their jobs'. It is underneath this superficial blue-collar identity, that we come to know what is REAL about these people, their innermost thoughts, feelings and dreams. In reading Parrish's book, we become privy to the lives of 'common folk' in Louisiana. We learn of the pains of growing up from Jeb ("Bonnie Ledet", "It Pours"), the struggles of love and healing from Bob ("Hardware Man," "Exterminator") and the future of life as we think we know it ("After the River"). It is in this ability to portray the humanness of people without loosing sight of the meaning in life, that Tim Parrish succeeds in giving us a slice of Louisiana's "joie de vie".

No matter how long ago, nor how far I may live from my native Louisiana, memories of the people and places that make it 'home' come flooding back as a result of reading Tim Parrish's book. For those that are intrigued by the culture of south Louisiana, or are just interested in reading stories of REAL people living life as it is, Red Stick Men by Tim Parrish, is a must read.

Tim Parrish has written a collection of stories from his experiences living in and around New Orleans. The title reflects the nickname given to the men who worked around the Mississippi. The rain,floods and humidity invasively turn everything wet,soggy and a dull reddish hue. There are five stories in this collection that center around growing up at the time of the Vietnam War.

The characters are Jeb and a few buddies going through the rights of passage from boys to men. In one scene they are boys daring the river currents and amusing themselves by throwing stones to break up treebranch jams. Their talk and interest turns to the war and the news Jeb is able to surreptitiously overhear about his older brother, Bob, who is serving in Vietnamin. Though the setting is precise, the conditions and conflicts of getting their first kiss,getting jobs and fearing their own possible fate as soldiers are universal. That Parrish can tell it so well is a compliment to his skll at making his characters real and believable.

He does this by using dialogue in the Creole vernacular. The reader can feel the red dust on one's face, smell the damp and dank moisture in the walls of the house, one clothes and emanating from the river. It is also possible to imagine the turmoil of a hard existence with little to hope for except more of the same.

His character's personalities are well drawn and the contrast betweeen his Mother and father, for instance, underlines the difficulty the young man has in making decisions about his life. Jeb's older brother returns from the war and goes through many of the tortured mind battles of veterans in those years. If you were too young to know it then, you can get a good feel for the difficulty of the times when Americ was cought up in a controversial war.

Parrish joins the ranks of many short story writers by presenting true pictures of growing up but sets the tales in a unique environment. Another author to consider, for a view of the same but in early Oklahoma, is Rilla Askew's Strange Business.

I have enjoyed both and look forward to discovering other authors and other areas of the U.S. that put forth unique societal values.

Spedale gives a very quick rundown of the Union capture of Baton Rouge in 1862, the Confederate counterattack, and the aftermath. More of a brief engagement than a battle, the back and forth between Union and CSA troops left much of the city in ruins and empty as both sides soon pulled back to more defensible sites. What makes the slim volume quite nice, however, is the myriad pictures that run throughout -- both sketches and photographs from the 1800s and modern photographs of the sites as they are today.

I love Christian Fiction -- and I love mysteries. I bought all 4 books in this series certain I'd want to read them all. This book is THE ONLY book I've ever read a third of and not finished. It is boring. The writer provides endless detail in an unartful way, to the tune of a predictable story line, and reveals a Christian philosophy that is shallow and "churchy."