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99% Fat-Free Italian Cooking: All your favorite dishes with less than one gram of fat [Hardcover]

Barry Bluestein (Author), Kevin Morrissey (Author)
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March 16, 1999
With this newest addition to their 99% fat-free cookbook series, bestselling authors Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey present their version of America's favorite cuisine.

They broke new ground with The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook by proving that tasty, sophisticated, and virtually fat-free meals could be made without resorting to artificial ingredients. With 99% Fat-Free Appetizers and Desserts, they applied those same principles to two of the most popular and potentially fat-laden courses of any meal. In 99% Fat-Free Meals in 30 Minutes, they conquered the time factor.

Now, with 99% Fat-Free Italian Cooking, they bring their expertise to bear on one of America's favorite cuisines. While Italian food may, for some, be synonymous with olive oil and cheese, it is also famous for its use of healthy grains, pasta, and rice. Bluestein and Morrissey have conquered polenta, tamed risotto, and made peace with pasta, but they also include a full range of 99% fat-free meats, poultry, and fish, with dishes ranging from Seafood Salad to Sausage Calzones to Veal and Couscous-Stuffed Red Peppers to Chicken Piccata to Tuscan Stew. Nor do they forget those delicious Italian desserts, such as Chocolate Tiramisù.

As in all their books, the authors include a listing of essential 99% fat-free pantry items, a section explaining special techniques and equipment, and a selection of suggested menus.

In short, 99% Fat-Free Italian Cooking is a must-have book for all Italian food-lovers concerned with limiting their dietary fat.

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From Publishers Weekly

Bluestein and Morrissey (The Bountiful Kitchen) return with their fourth 99% fat-free regimen, this time using standard ploys?sauteing ingredients in broth or water or simply in a dry nonstick pan; spraying food lightly with olive oil instead of cooking in it; using meat as accents rather than mainstays?to create flavorsome, low-fat alternatives to traditional Italian fare. Many recipes (the Broiled Scallops appetizer or Eggplant Crostini in which vegetable slices replace bread) are the essence of simplicity. For Butternut Squash Soup, ingredients are oven baked in stock before pureeing. Almond-Glazed Panettone is coated not with nuts but ground Grape-Nuts flakes flavored with almond extract. Bucatini alla Carbonara acquires richness with nonfat liquid-egg substitute and achieves lower fat with turkey bacon replacing pancetta, while seafood comes to the rescue in Monkfish Osso Buco. Salad dressings are creative blends of balsamic vinegar and maple syrup or honey and orange juice. Even Sausage Calzone has a low-fat filling of turkey breast tenderloin, fennel seeds and other herbs and spices. One of the most audacious offerings is Chocolate Tiramisu made with a fat-free "mascarpone" of drained nonfat yogurt flavored with buttermilk. Those needing to cut fat intake will find much to applaud here.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Even the most rigid of the food police acknowledge that some dietary fat is necessary, and most experts agree that an overall 30 percent of calories from fat is acceptable. Nevertheless, Bluestein and Morrissey's almost fat-free formula has served them well (The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook, LJ 4/15/94; 99% Fat-Free Meals in 30 Minutes, LJ 2/15/98), and they are back with elegant and sophisticated Italian fare containing barely a trace of fat. They use fat-free dairy products, egg substitutes, and very little meat or poultry (six ounces of quail in a ragu to serve six). But what is Italian food without olive oil? For collections where the earlier titles have been popular.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway; 1st edition (March 16, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 038548545X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385485456
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,106,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious recipes, May 2, 2000
This review is from: 99% Fat-Free Italian Cooking: All your favorite dishes with less than one gram of fat (Hardcover)
This is a great book for anyone who loves Italian food. The low-fat recipes are delicious, use mostly common ingredients and are easy to make. The only illustrations are a small selection of photos in the middle.

The book starts out with a brief description of the ingredients and some suggested menus. Fat & calories are listed for each dish. Each recipe has a sidebar with severing suggestions, recipe variations, or background on the ingredients.

Recipes include appetizers, soups, breads, fresh pastas, sauces, polenta, salads, pizzas, desserts, and liqueurs. There are also many main dishes with vegetables, seafood, meat, and poultry.

Some of my favorite dishes include the spinach calzone, lemon risotto and chicken piccata. My friends loved the ricotta & basil tortellini. The chocolate and raisin biscotti served with coffee is also divine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for health, August 24, 2010
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Got this for my mom who needed to cut back on fat for pancreatitis. She loves it - says these are the only edible fat free dishes she has made.
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