Chef Jamie's Modern Comforts: Healthy Updates for Traditional Foods * Over 200 Recipes with Healthy Tips & Chefs' Secrets [Hardcover]

Jaime Gwen (Author), Chef Jamie Gwen (Author), Dr. Myles Bader (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 8, 2001

Enjoy the meals you've always loved...guilt-free! Over 200 recipes for traditional favorites (like creamy macaroni and cheese and fragrant cinnamon rolls) come complete with terrific low-fat tips that make them healthier, but just as tasty. They've all been developed, tested, and re-tested by Jamie Gwen, food producer and stylist for Emeril. You'll get nutritional breakdowns for the standard and healthy versions, making it a cinch to calculate fat, calories, cholesterol, protein, and carbohydrates.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Chef Jamie's Modern Comforts, by Jamie Gwen and Myles Bader, takes an unusual approach to healthy, low-fat cookery. Each recipe appears in a fairly standard format, using customary ingredients. Then, in an afterword, Gwen lists substitutions that the cook may make to produce a low-fat rendition of the dish. An advantage of this approach is that the home cook may choose among all the substitutions in reducing fat levels. For example, in Sweet Potato Pie, one can leave in the whole eggs but use nonfat milk, and so forth. Gwen notes the effects of some substitutions on the dish's outcome. Recipes are for typical American main courses and desserts: meat loaf, chili, chicken tetrazzini, and pumpkin pie. Nutritional analyses for both standard and low-fat versions run parallel for easy comparison. Mark Knoblauch
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About the Author

Few chefs are more admired than Jamie Gwen. Not only does this graduate from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America host her own live radio program, ChefTalk with Jamie Gwen, she also serves as the food correspondent for Fox Television, where she has an audience of millions, and was the food producer and stylist for the NBC series Emeril. In addition, Jamie is spokesperson and culinary consultant for Smart & Final Stores (with hundreds of affiliates nationwide) and has been featured in Newsweek magazine and on Access Hollywood.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Friedman (November 8, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586631918
• ISBN-13: 978-1586631918
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,373,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Comfort Food Recipes & Tips, March 2, 2002

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This review is from: Chef Jamie's Modern Comforts: Healthy Updates for Traditional Foods * Over 200 Recipes with Healthy Tips & Chefs' Secrets (Hardcover)

I have already made the Blueberry Buckle Cake, Spicy Stir Fry Orange Chicken, Jamie's Hamburgers and the Pineapple upside-down cake and every recipe has turned out just perfectly. I like the nutritional breakdowns and the low-fat tips. It is a great book of comfort food recipes.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Favorites & More, February 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chef Jamie's Modern Comforts: Healthy Updates for Traditional Foods * Over 200 Recipes with Healthy Tips & Chefs' Secrets (Hardcover)

I love this book! So many easy to prepare favorites--with lowfat tips, too! Not too many ingredients,which makes the recipes a snap. A great reference for any home cook.
Lynn O.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not for those on Weight Watchers, August 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chef Jamie's Modern Comforts: Healthy Updates for Traditional Foods * Over 200 Recipes with Healthy Tips & Chefs' Secrets (Hardcover)

The recipes in this book are great, and tasty (the ones I've tried). But if you're on Weight Watchers, it doesn't give the nutritional content of fiber, only calories, fat, protien, carbohydrates, and cholesterol. It also doesn't have ANY pictures, which is what a beginner-cook like me appreciates (it's nice to compare and see if what I made looks "right")
In all this is a good book; straightforward and easy to follow directions. I just wish it had pictures and fiber content!