Rosati, Kitty Gurkin. The Rice Diet Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)

Rosati, Kitty Gurkin. The Rice Diet Cookbook. S. & S. 2007. 350p. photogs. index. ISDN 1-4165-3922-0 [ISBN 97B-1-4165-3922-3]. $26. COOKERY

This cookbook is filled to the brim with healthy recipes that adhere to the rice diet's relatively strict dietary rules established in 1939. After an outline of the program (each consecutive week allows more varied ingredients a la the South Beach diet and other diets), readers advance to the recipes, which are organized into categories and include sweet anecdotes about their evolution, as they were contributed by dieters, rice diet dietitians, and cooks. A first …