7 Color Cuisine or The Worcester Lunch Car Company Massachusetts

7-Color Cuisine: A Cookbook and Nutrition Guide

Author: Marcia Zimmerman

Looking to improve your diet but don't know where to begin? Let the 7-Color Cuisine show you the way. Following this book's simple four-step system-which helps you plan menus, shop for top-quality ingredients, and prepare and savor beautiful, healthful meals-is like having a personal nutrition coach in your kitchen. It's as easy as counting colors. You'll discover how vibrant rainbow hues and warm earthy tones reveal the phytonutrient pedigrees of certain foods. You'll also learn of the valuable healing zoonutrients found in creamy white dairy foods, fish, and poultry.

An easy-to-follow, flexible color-based plan guides you to food selections that taste great and help you look and feel your best. It's the perfect antidote for anyone who views food as the enemy or has never experienced dietary satisfaction. Along with extensive menu plans, shopping guidelines, and lots of practical tips, there are dozens of recipes for taste-tempting dishes that are as nutritionally rich as they are satisfying. Beautiful full-color photos and an extensive product resource list round out this practical guide.

According to the author, "What you eat becomes part of you. Food can satisfy your deepest psychological, neurological, and social being-provided you choose a variety of high-quality and colorful foods and follow the guidelines presented in this book." 7-Color Cuisine, which partners dietary nutrition with good taste, is the perfect addition to any kitchen.

About the Author:
Marcia Zimmerman, MEd, CN, is an internationally known author, educator, and consultant to some of the country's leading nutrition and supplement companies

Library Journal

Most nutrition and diet books focus on calories, fat, fiber, or protein. Scientist and nutritionist Zimmerman here focuses on phytonutrients, plant-based chemicals that may help to prevent conditions such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, and that are also the pigments responsible for the color of fruits and vegetables. The book is self-described as "a new way of eating" for those who need to improve their diets but don't know where to begin; meals are created around colorful and animal foods, preferably those that contain zoonutrients, which are added secondarily. Three weeks worth of menu plans with appealing recipes for soups, entr es, salads, and breakfast shakes are included as well. Zimmerman stresses the use of organic foods and the importance of mindfulness in food preparation and eating, encouraging readers to savor their food both with their eyes and with their taste buds. Several other books on this topic are available, such as Mindy Weisel's 7-Day Color Diet and James Joseph's The Color Code. Buy for demand.-Pauline Baughman, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Preface     v
Introduction     xiii
Creating Colorful Cuisine
Guiding Principles     3
Savor the Sweetness of Good, Colorful Food     11
The 7-Color Cuisine Plan     21
A New Way of Eating
Step One: Get Set     47
Step Two: Go Shopping     57
Step Three: Fix Your Meals     77
Step Four: Savor Your Food     197
Appendices
Identifying What You Need to Change     214
How to Read Nutrition Fact Panels     216
Shopping Lists     220
Resources     224
Cooking Essentials     226
Measurement Conversions     228
Index     231

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The Worcester Lunch Car Company, Massachusetts (Images of America Series)

Author: Richard J S Gutman

The Worcester Lunch Car Company monopolized the New England market with its colorful diners. Although Worcester sent a smattering of diners as far as Florida and Michigan, the cars were most popular in their home territory. From 1906 to 1961, the company built six hundred fifty-one diners, with as few as ten or as many as seventy seats. Known for their small size, solid construction, and old-fashioned styling, the cars featured oak and mahogany woodwork, intricate ceramic tile patterns, and a backbar of stainless steel. Their distinctive porcelain enamel exteriors with names emblazoned on them proudly proclaimed their presence along the roadside. Day and night, these diners fed generations of New England's working class; today, fewer than one hundred lunch cars still operate.