Barbara Halloran Gibbons

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Barbara Halloran Gibbons (1934 - March 26, 2014) was an American cookbook author and columnist. Known as "the Slim Gourmet," her syndicated column of the same name was widely distributed in the 1970s, and popularized her ideas on diet cooking. A number of her columns were humorous developments of her theory that "ingredients have no calories." [1]

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Personal

Gibbons lived in New Jersey, California and Texas.

Career

Gibbons was best known in the 1970s due to her syndicated "The Slim Gourmet" cooking column and the publication of many of her cookbooks on diet-focused cooking. Her publishing history continued into the 1980s.

Humor

The ideas from Gibbons's humorous columns were collected in her 1982 book Calories Don't Count If You Eat Standing Up.

Since then, Gibbons's ideas developing her humorous theory that "ingredients have no calories" have been widely reproduced and distributed online, in private emails, and in the 1995 book Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook. [2] People give these encapsulations of her ideas such titles as "Calories That Don't Count," "Food With No Calories," "The No-Fail Diet Plan" or "Guide To Calorie Burning." Usually, authorship is simply noted as "Source Unknown" or "Author Unknown."

The following are some of the foods which Gibbons says have no calories:

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References

  1. "Barbara Gibbons's Obituary by Star-Ledger". Obits.nj.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  2. Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor; Wentworth, Diana Von Welanetz (1995). Guide To Calorie Burning, page two (page one is restricted). ISBN   9781558743540 . Retrieved 2009-03-23.