Chez Eddy is a Houston restaurant that serves a kind of nouvelle American Southwestern fare, as high-flying as marinated wild boar with plum-port wine sauce, as au courant as radicchio/arugula/jicama/fresh-corn salad with beet vinaigrette— but with one difference you're unlikely to notice without being told (and that's a plus): Conceived by heart-specialist Gotto, the restaurant makes every dish conform to American Heart Association guidelines for fat, cholesterol, sodium, and calories. Obviously, the recipes here are a far cry from the ones in those dreary AHA cookbooks. Though many diet cookbooks make the promise, these dishes—among them escallops of veal with apricot coulis, broiled swordfish with red pepper salsa, tamarind sauce with an unexpected dollop of Marsala wine, vitello tonnato with reduced-calorie mayonnaise cut further with nonfat yogurt, and two cheesecakes (one of ricotta, one nonfat yogurt, both using liqueurs)—really have the pizazz and sumptuous qualities that make a heart-healthy diet easy to maintain. (Of course, calorie-watchers still have to sacrifice in the serving-size department.) And they're not especially demanding of the cook.
Pub Date: Sept. 11, 1991
ISBN: 0-13-131368-1
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1991
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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