Product Description

A new kitchen companion is packed with healthful and nutritional tips from top chefs, including Jacques Pepin and Sarabeth Levine, and features recipes, illustrations and tables, and twenty-eight chapters covering every nuance of low-fat food preparation. Tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #664797 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 598 pages

From Library Journal
Health-conscious cooks will be attracted by the 450 low-fat recipes, plus numerous variations, in Prevention's new kitchen resource, but any cook will find useful information and ideas here. This impressive volume offers dozens of charts, boxes, lists, and sidebars in an attractive, accessible format, along with hundreds of diagrams and step-by-step drawings. The introductory chapters provide guidelines on how to set up a well-equipped kitchen, from buying the best pots and pans to stocking the spice cabinet, followed by descriptions and illustrations of basic cooking methods. The recipes include both old favorites and contemporary dishes from a variety of cuisines (each section has a guest appearance by a well-known chef), and many are highlighted as quick to prepare. Highly recommended.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The war against animal fats continues with Prevention's new, comprehensive guide to low-fat cookery. If it is true that eliminating saturated fats from the American diet and cutting back other fats will result in long, healthy lives, then this volume is sure to be popular. The recipes try to ensure that eradicating fats doesn't purge foods of flavor. In addition to the editors' own recipe selections, there are featured dishes from celebrated chefs that reflect low-fat emphasis. Most of the recipes highlight steamed and poached light meats and seafood in broths and infusions that add almost no fat and precious few calories. Numerous tables, charts, and illustrations make the book functional for the tyro cook by providing a wealth of culinary as well as nutritional information. Mark Knoblauch

Customer Reviews

Most Healthy and Helpful Cookbook Ever
This cookbook takes recipes ever one likes-- and makes it healthy-- I love this cookbook-- use it every day.. the baking , main meals and desserts are good-- the fat has been cut but still there is lots of favor in the food. You feel like you are doing something right for your family. Highly recommend for beginner cooks also--has lots of helpful hints..

Great variety of tasty low-fat recipes
I think this book offers a lot of practical and imaginative low-fat recipes for anyone trying to watch their fat intake. Desserts are a little boring, but for the most part tasty. I highly recommend this book!

Most complete healthy illustrated cookbook I have found
600 pages of healthy recipes with good tips and hints-and clear instructions and illustrations. The only cookbook you need. The recipes I have tried from this book have all been good.