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99% Fat-Free Meals In Under 30 Minutes (99% Fat-free Series) [Hardcover]

Barry Bluestein (Author), Kevin Morrissey (Author)
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January 20, 1998 99% Fat-free Series
The bestselling authors of two previous "99% Fat-Free" cookbooks now provide complete quick-to-fix menus for every occasion.

With the overwhelming success of their first two books, The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook and 99% Fat-Free Appetizers and Desserts, Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey have proved to America that they know how to make virtually fat-free dining both sophisticated and delicious.  With 99% Fat-Free Meals in 30 Minutes, they prove that it can also be done quickly.

Although we now understand the need to adopt healthful eating habits, actually doing it on a daily basis has proved somewhat more difficult.  There's been an ongoing--and as Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey now prove, mistaken--perception that healthful eating is just too time-consuming and complicated.  But with this book, Bluestein and Morrissey have made it adaptable to even the busiest schedule.  

With forty complete menus for everything from a hearty meal like Chicken Scaloppine with Polenta and White Bean Garlic Salad to a light supper of White Gazpacho and Turkey Caesar Salad, along with a cornucopia of 99% fat-free desserts to mix and match, 99% Fat-Free Meals in 30 Minutes covers every dining occasion--from formal entertaining to family dinners to lunches and light meals.  

A "99% Fat-Free Fast Strategy" at the beginning of every menu explains how to maximize and budget your time for quickest results.  And "The 99% Fat-Free Pantry" describes the many conveniently prepared ingredients--from prechopped onions to precut potatoes--that are available in most supermarkets, and significantly reduce preparation time.  

With this book in hand, no one will ever again be able to claim that he or she "doesn't have time" to prepare a tasty, healthy, low-fat meal.


Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey are the bestselling cookbook authors of The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook, 99% Fat-Free Appetizers and Desserts, and The Complete Cookie, as well as Home Made in the Kitchen, The Bountiful Kitchen, Dip It!, Light Sauces, and Quick Breads.  The former owners of a cookbook store, they live in Chicago where they are now at work on their next book, 99% Fat-Free Italian Cooking.

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From Library Journal

Although some food writers and editors have been heard to say "fat-free is dead," that's apparently not yet the case, as these three new titles demonstrate. Schlesinger's first batch of 500 Fat-Free Recipes (Villard, 1994) was a best seller, and she's added others to the series, including 500 (Practically) Fat-Free Past Recipes (LJ 2/15/97). Odd then, that her health information is out of date, for her introduction asserts that dietary cholesterol contributes to high cholesterol (it doesn't) and that everyone should avoid salt because it can cause high blood pressure (sodium is a danger for only a small percentage of the population). So there's no fish or poultry, let alone meat, no salt, and almost no fat in her recipes. Most are short and simple; there are indeed 500 recipes, but some seem little more than variations on a theme. For libraries where Schlesinger's other books are popular. Bluestein and Morrissey have several other titles in their "Fat-Free" series too, including 99% Fat-Free Appetizers and Desserts (LJ 2/15/96). This time they offer easy menus for entertaining, for "family meals," and for lunches, brunches, and casual dinners, along with an extra chapter of desserts. Their recipes are more imaginative and more sophisticated than Schlesinger's, and each menu includes a game plan for preparation and presentation; nutrition analyses give the essentials only, calories and fat. For most diet collections. In comparison to these two titles, the recipes in Fergie's book seem practically decadent, with some of them containing 10 grams or more fat per serving. The Duchess is a spokesperson for Weight WatchersTM (WW) now, and she presents menus from their plan (recipes include the number of WW points as well as nutrition analyses). Admitting that she doesn't really cook herself, Fergie provides the text here, from the reminiscences about Castle Balmoral that introduce A Highlands Picnic to the memories of meeting Prince Andrew for the first time that accompany the Formal Luncheon menu. The recipes are mostly simple and on the sophisticated side; expect demand.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

Praise for the "99% Fat-Free" Cookbooks:

99% Fat-Free Appetizers and Desserts

Kevin Morrissey and Barry Bluestein...know what makes a good, user-friendly cookbook. They also know how to cook light...they provide readers with a creative array of recipes for low-fat starters and finales."
--Bon Apptit

"Bluestein and Morrissey have done it again, delivering recipes that are high on flavor and way low [on] fat in this collection of intriguing starters and finishers...this collection will be a boon for the low-fat cook."
--Publishers Weekly

The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook

By using a plethora of low-fat cooking techniques...this duo offers a wonderful assortment of healthy, appetizing foods." --The Cookbook Review

"Flavor is the name of the game and the authors get it with a lot of clever substitutions."
--New York Daily News

"An attractive recipe book, rather than a nutritional guidebook; this is food you can serve to company, although many recipes are easy enough to make any day."
--Kansas City Kansan


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (January 20, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385485441
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385485449
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,908,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars NOT American Recipes. Weird stuff!, December 9, 1998
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I ordered this book and was very unpleasantly surprised that it didn't have normal, American recipes. It wasn't listed in the description nor explained on "Home Matters", (Discovery 11/98) when it was featured recently, what food types it contained. Too much Thai food! Lots of Yuppie-type food. If you like the following, you will probably like this book: Thai, and lots of sea-food, and things like Gazpacho, Chard, Hong Kong Stew, Arugula, Gnocchi, Polenta, and Fennel & Artichoke Salad. My husband and I don't care for seafood or Thai food. (Only a couple recipes were American.) If I had known it contained these types of foods, I never would have ordered it. But again, if this food suits your tastes, you'll probably like this book.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I liked this cookbook because the recipes are fast & easy., June 8, 1999
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Even though I enjoy cooking, I really don't have a lot of time to cook. So I liked the recipes in this book because they are simple, fast and easy to make. Especially helpful to me is the Appendix which has the recipes listed by course. The usual divisions for soups, salads, desserts are listed. But also, Pasta, Grain, and Vegetable-based entrees, side dishes, and wraps and sandwiches. They also give the grams of fat per serving(all of the recipes have < 1 gm/serving) and calories per serving. Some of the recipes have a section, " 99% Fat-Free Fast Strategy" which shows the order of preparation. I was so thrilled with the recipes and the book, I'm back again to look for one of their other 99%Fat-free books.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Forget it if you have young children at home, February 3, 1999
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While I'm sure the authors meant well, they really should state that this is not a cookbook for families with young children. The meals are too sophisticated in taste and design to suit the needs of a person who must take into account feeding young children when menu planning. I feel I wasted my money. But, hey, if you don't have to worry about kids, then this might be the cookbook for you!
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