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The French Culinary Institute's Salute to Healthy Cooking |
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The French Culinary Institute's Salute to Healthy Cooking |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5944 EAN: 9780875964409 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0875964400 Label: Rodale Books Languages: Manufacturer: Rodale Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: August 15, 1998 Publisher: Rodale Books Studio: Rodale Books Editorial Review: Product Description: For the first time, chefs from New York City's renowned French Culinary Institute have created a collection of recipes that are not only delicious, but also easy and low in fat. You'll learn from chefs like Jacques Pepin how to create dishes worthy of restaurants like Le Cirque. The chefs share 40 seasonal menus that use only the freshest, tastiest, healthiest ingredients for a distinctly French taste. Amazon.com Review: The chefs at the French Culinary Institute believe that people have switched to Italian cooking because they do not realize French food can be just as light, fresh, and healthy. Jacques Pepin and his cohorts, Alain Sailhac, Jacques Torres, and Andre Soltner, are out to prove that French cooking really can be deliciously low in fat in The French Culinary Institute's Salute to Healthy Cooking. At the stove, Pepin and company offer 40 low-fat menus, all luscious three-course meals made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Dishes are prepared using familiar classic French techniques like poaching, braising, and roasting. First courses range from a light Watercress, Chicory and Radish in Beet Vinaigrette salad to elegant Leek and Roasted Pepper Tartlets. Main courses feature meat, poultry, or seafood. Desserts are for the most part fruit-based, although chocolate gets its due in a soufflé and a rich flourless torte. Few people will make the entire menu for a week-night dinner, but even a singular dish, like salmon cooked in its own juice with broccoli florets, would be fine served with your own green salad and fruit for dessert. Even when you bring home roast chicken or plain grilled fish, adding the earthy Mushroom Sauce or zesty Tomato Vinaigrette will add immeasurably to your meal. --Dana Jacobi Related Items:
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 Rating:  - eat in good healthI join the chorus of praise for this cookbook. I appreciate the menu format, though you're free to select individual dishes. The grilled pork tenderloin with roasted red pepper and tomato sauce is a consistent success, elegant and delicious while requiring little work. This is an excellent source of flavorful recipes for those on salt and fat restricted diets. Rating: - Clever Ways to Present High-Quality Healthful FoodI am glad that I wasn't put off by the reader who complained about the stock recipes. If you don't like the stock recipes just substitute your own favorite stock recipes and proceed with the rest of the book. This book is full of very clever and elegant ways to produce food that promotes your family's health. The recipes are accessible to the home cook, clever, elegant and healthful. Really people, what more do you want? Rating: - A mustThis is a book everyone who enjoys cooking and eating healthy should have. While some of the dishes are a bit on the bland side, many of them are not. The wine steamed salmon is fab. The garlic soup is a favorite! Even if you don't make a single recipe just the information in the front of the book is well worth the price. Rating:  - Wonderful recipes for weekendsThis book is truly inspiring. It's organized by season, and then by different menus for each season. The three summer menus I have tried have been absolutely wonderful. This book really lives up to its promise; the dishes are very refined and you don't miss the fat and calories at all. The authors make very good use of herbs and aromatics such as orange juice to give their dishes a lot of flavor. You will definitely impress your friends and neighbors with these recipes. However, there are a few caveats. This book is definitely not for beginners. The recipes tend to be complicated and can involve sophisticated equipment (mandoline, crepe pan). The recipes I have tried involved many steps and a lot of knife work, and therefore consumed a lot of time. However, if you really enjoy cooking, want to eat more healthfully, and you have the time to spend, this book will become one of your favorites. My husband and I are cooking one menu a week, and now we really look forward to our Sunday dinner.
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