Quick Delicious Cookbook

The authors' laudable goal is to help readers ""bring wholesome everyday meals to the table quickly and easily.'' In part, Silverman and Williams succeed: they offer quick, delicious and healthy dishes, including savory broiled chicken, baked fish with green chili sauce and pumpkin and cranberry casserole. The per-serving nutritional analysis that accompanies each recipe is complete, and the list of low-salt food manufacturers is helpful. But the layout of the book is cluttered and the menu format restraining. Most distressing is the text, which is a tangle, mainly, it seems, because the authors try to do too much in too little space. Hence nutritional advice is whisked over, dietary principles are given a perfunctory nod, and the 150 recipes are skimpy. (October)