The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook:
250 All-New Low-Carb Recipes that Will Cut Your Cravings and Keep You Slim for Life
By Drs. Richard
and Rachel Heller
John Wiley & Sons, $24.95
ISBN 0471382906

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If shedding winter weight and shaping up for spring is your goal, consider the advice -- and now the recipes to go with it -- of Drs. Richard and Rachel Heller. These well-known, best-selling authors and pioneers in low-carbohydrate diet research, have compiled The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook: 250 All-New Low-Carb Recipes that Will Cut Your Cravings and Keep You Slim for Life. If you've joined the low-carb revolution, you'll want to keep this cookbook handy in your kitchen.

This easy-to-make salad, appetizer, or snazzy snack from the new book might well convert you to carbless cooking:

Shrimp and Mushroom Salad
4 cups fresh mushrooms
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 pound shrimp, cooked, cleaned, and cooled
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon curry powder
3/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup sour cream
1/8 teaspoon salt

In a large bowl, combine mushrooms, shrimp, and celery.

In a medium bowl combine sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice, curry powder, pepper, and salt, stirring well.

Add sour cream mixture to mushroom, shrimp, and celery mixture and toss to coat.

Refrigerate for one hour and serve.