Among the diabetic cookbooks that place emphasis on a healthy diet is The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook– a vegetarian, diabetic cookbook by Michael Cook and Patricia Stevenson. The book makes the case for plant-based diets as the ideal choice for diabetics to follow.

Fortunately for those diabetics who are already vegetarian, or who are intent on becoming vegetarian, it offers an array of wholesome dishes. There is nothing as discouraging to adherents of new diets as monotonous meals, day-in, day-out. Unfortunately, in the West, vegetarian diets are often stereotyped as being bland, tasteless, repetitive, and unsatisfying.   Cookbooks such as this one help to overturn such stereotypes by showing what flavorful, imaginative vegetarian meals can look like.

Some of the delicious dishes described in this diabetic cookbook include “Sweet Potato Rice,” “Mushroom Pilaf,” “Blueberry Smoothie Delight,” and “Five Fruit Salad.” They all sound appetizing: not remotely like the descriptor “rabbit …