About this item
Created specifically for adults with braces, this cookbook features a full range of flavor-filled dishes through easy, stay-soft recipes and comfort food tips for any kind of braces - metal, ceramic, behind-the-teeth, or aligner-type. The recipes range from basic ideas made from around-the-house ingredients to meals with true gourmet touches, including breakfasts, appetizers, desserts, entrees, and vegetarian dishes. This book is ideal for eating well at home, on the road, and at the office. Savvy tips for being confident in braces at work are also included.
About the Author
Pamela Waterman is a professional writer, electrical engineer and mother of three daughters ages 21, 18 and 16, all of whom have had braces. She delights in helping children discover the fun and accomplishment of hands-on activities, and has conducted dozens of science and engineering workshops for teachers, guidance counselors and youth in kindergarten through college. Not only does she commiserate with those wearing brackets, elastics, headgear and expanders, she also draws upon her own full-metal experiences back in the days when a typical orthodonture treatment took five long years, and a recent year in adult braces. Always interested in cooking, Ms. Waterman has also been collecting recipes for tender teeth since 1967, when necessity drove her to reinvent forbidden foods in cleverly favorable forms.Her parenting book The Absolute Best Play Days: From Airplanes to Zoos (and Everything In Between) (Sourcebooks 1999) has been acclaimed by parents and caregivers alike for its creative ideas detailing themed, multi-age play-activities including craft projects, inside/outside play, read-aloud book recommendations and child-friendly recipes. Deborah Reid, Corporate Education and Materials Specialist for the nationwide childcare chain, La Petite Academy, noted, "(the) book is wonderful and very comprehensive. It has become a resource for our Education Department," and used it as the basis for the company's entire preschool summer-camp program in 2001. Though currently out of print, sales reached 8,000 copies across the U.S., Canada and Europe.Contributing as co-author to the educational summer-review book JumpStart 5th Grade Activities (Knowledge Adventure Software/EPI 1999) also confirmed her ability to present information in a readable yet entertaining style. This book, one of a series of seven JumpStart books that sold over 100,000 copies as of 2003, helps parents prevent summer brain-drain for their 9-to-11-year-olds via challenging hands-on projects.Most recently, Ms. Waterman has published The Braces Cookbook: Recipes You (and Your Orthodontist) Will Love (the Discovery Box 2006) and The Braces Cookbook 2: Comfort Food with a Gourmet Touch (the Discovery Box 2009). Written to help children, teens, adults and parents solve the problem of what to eat when their teeth hurt, both books offer 50 recipes each, plus tips, trivia and tasty solutions, based on more than thirty years of recipe development targeted specifically to this issue. The first book has been awarded the Good Parenting Award from Parental Wisdom, a web-based parenting community in Nutley NJ (www.parentalwisdom.com) and the 2007 Best Cookbook Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishing Association (www.AZBookPub.com). The second title was honored with a 2009 Best Cookbook Next Generation Finalist Award from the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (www.IBPPG.com).Ms. Waterman's more than 90 articles on parenting, small business, home renovation and e
