Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies
by Jan McCracken
Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies
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About the Author
Jan McCracken was born and raised in the Midwest, in a small, farming community in Illinois. Adopted by her grandparents, Jan grew up gardening with her grandfather and canning and cooking with her grandmother. She spent most of her early life in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas.
In the early 80s, Jan and her faithful friend, Mr. Bear, a fluffy husky-chow mix, relocated to a cabin in the mountains above Santa Barbara, California. Given her love of country living, the mountains, and cooking, Jan later opened a country bed-and-breakfast in the Ozark Mountains of Branson, Missouri. It was during her inn-keeping years in Branson that Jan wrote her first self- published book, the Ozark Mountain Christmas Recipe Collection, First Edition. With the grand success of her first book, her extensive recipe collection, and her love of cooking, Jan continued to write little books of recipes that included the Garden Recipe Collection and the Fruit Sampler Collection. Her personal favorite is a gift book collection of eighteen Little Books of Tea.
Jan began living the low-carb lifestyle about ten years ago and is an advocate of preventive medicine through diet, exercise, and lifestyle. As a proponent of healthy lifestyles, her love of research keeps her tuned into the pulse of whats happening in the low-carb genre as well as in nutrition and wellness. Jans works in these areas include Low Carb Christmas Cookin and the Carb Countin HolidayCookbook with Sassy Stepper.
You can count on Jans recipes to always be easy and delicious, and her motto is, Fresh is always best.
Jan has two grown children, Katie and Ray. Katie has blessed Gammy Mac with twins, Sara Jane and John Edward, and Ray and Lori have blessed her with Kaylie Elise. Jans ever-present smile is especially warm and proud when she talks about her grandchildren.
Jans long-term goal for her books, speaking engagements, and teaching is to help people understand that food truly is great medicine; it can prevent and heal disease by making a positive impact on the health of people around the world. As a health advocate for all ages, Jan has set up an international group of Sassy Steppers to combat obesity and disease, stepping out with people all over the world on the road to wellness.
In addition to her other endeavors, Jan continues her freelance writing career and is currently at home in California. She feels very blessed to have been given the opportunity to write Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies.
When you see Jans name in print youll usually see her personal slogan, which comes from her heart:
Change Your Mind... Change Your Heart... Lose Weight for Life!
Dedication
To all of you with low-carb in your vocabulary who never want to diet again and who want to pursue a healthy, low-carb, active lifestyle for life yes, the very life of you! I wrote this book for each of you!
Authors Acknowledgments
Sincere, heartfelt thanks to the entire team at Wiley Publishing. They have become like family to me. I have learned so much that I almost feel as if there should be some sort of graduation ceremony for all authors that write For Dummies books.
A very special thank you goes to my agent, Grace Freedson, for so graciously getting me off on the right foot and for her ongoing guidance and warm support.
My heartfelt thanks to Stacy Kennedy, my acquisitions editor, who has been a gem and a delight to work with since Day One. Big thanks to my project editor, Mike Baker, for his patience, his ability to keep me and the project on track, his willingness to go the extra mile, and his great sense of humor. Mike gets stellar points! Sincere appreciation and marvel for what they do goes to my copy editors, Trisha Strietelmeier and Tina Sims. Special thanks to Lesa Grant, my marketing manager and a talented lady whose enthusiasm is contagious. I got the luck of the draw with my recipe tester very warm thanks to Emily Nolan. Thanks to technical reviewer and nutritional analyst Patty Santelli, who made sure all the net carb math was done precisely.