Low-fat collage cheese in Cajun dishes is certainly a novelty; and that, besides the family name, is mainly what this Louisiana restaurant owner, sister of the famous Paul, and contributor to The Prudhomme family cookbook (1987) has going for her here. The Cajun accent survives (witness the catfish au gratin and shrimp Çtouffee, even pork in wine sauce) but health- style substitutes abound (in blackened chicken breast, turkey sausage) and serious fat-reducing measures are taken: Enola's roux is browned flour, nothing more, and her southern-style ``oven-fried'' chicken is stripped of skin and fat, breaded without eggs, and never fried. The worst of both worlds meet in her candied-yam recipe, which calls for brown sugar substitute, imitation butter flavoring, instant vanilla, and ten miniature marshmallows. Other tacky ingredients such as canned cream-of- mushroom soup turn up here and there, adding to the mongrel air.
Pub Date: April 19, 1991
ISBN: 0-688-09255-1
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1991
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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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