Underserved by its title, this cookbook will be a game-changer for cooks hungry for quick, easy ways to create practical,...
According to cooking-show host Knight and his son, there’s no need to give up old favorites in pursuit of healthy eating if cooks use these simple, healthful recipes.
Using novel cooking techniques and ingredient tweaks, the Knights adapt traditional favorites to contemporary dietary trends (less fat and salt), putting rich fare—such as chicken cordon bleu, Peking duck, bourbon-stuffed filet mignon, roast stuffed veal, chili, etc.—back on the healthy table. Knight explains how to make a low-sodium stock from fresh vegetables and meat and how to create a roux that can thicken other sauces. Though many recipes employ the waterless cookware that Knight started his career by selling, experienced cooks should be able to adapt regular stovetop cookware (cast iron, etc.) so as to avoid investing in new pots and pans. Under Knight’s careful guidance, even beginners should soon feel confident, especially after he offers insight into how kitchen mistakes can happen. He warns, for example, that in making the lobster bisque, readers should “please read the entire recipe before beginning” and “keep your face away from the flames.” As the title suggests, meat and potatoes get star treatment—including over a dozen tuber recipes—but other vegetables get loving treatment as well: pesto, Italian-style spinach, mustard greens, squash, etc. The six-recipe dessert section offers treats such as amaretto fruit cake (using a commercially available cake mix) and bread pudding “baked” on the stovetop. Short explanations about why and how good food is created, a detailed index, a metric conversion chart and a detailed list of calories—including where they come from: fat, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol, sodium, etc.—after every recipe help make this cookbook a lifesaver, perhaps literally.
Underserved by its title, this cookbook will be a game-changer for cooks hungry for quick, easy ways to create practical, healthful and inspired fare.Pub Date: Feb. 28, 2007
ISBN: 978-1419659669
Page Count: 256
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Review Posted Online: Aug. 2, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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