Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus--The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live (The great good food series) [Paperback]

Julee Rosso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 1996 | Series: The great good food series

The coauthor of the bestselling The New Basics Cookbook offers a lively, thoroughly contemporary cookbook packed with menus, recipes, tips, charts, quotes, and food lore, which succeeds in making healthful low-fat cooking simple, delicious, and easy enough to become a daily, lifelong commitment.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Julee Rosso, formerly half of the Silver Palate team that revolutionized American home cooking, shows you how to make incredible fresh gourmet meals with low sugar and low fat. Each dish sounds like expensive restaurant fare, yet the recipes are simple and the presentation easy to follow. Four weeks of helpful, day-by-day menus plus charts, cooking lore, tips and techniques will inspire you to make healthy cooking a daily commitment--and it will soon become a lifelong pleasure!

From Library Journal

In her second solo effort, Rosso, of Silver Palate fame (e.g., The Silver Palate Cookbook, LJ 6/15/82), offers what she calls "a primer" for healthier cooking and eating, with a month of menus and lots of nutrition information, charts, sidebars on ingredients, tricks for reducing calories and fat, and more. Recipes are of the upscale type that attracted so many fans to the earlier books. It seems odd, however, that the three-meals-a-day menus don't acknowledge the working world; it would have been helpful to have had lunch recipes and suggestions for food that can be made ahead and carried rather than so many recipes for food that must be served "immediately." And while Rosso talks about reducing sodium, a number of the daily totals are substantially higher than the recommended amount. Nevertheless, her stylish but low-fat recipes, in an appealing if cluttered information- and tip-packed format, guarantee a wide audience. (Although many in the food world complained that the recipes in Rosso's last book, Great Good Food, Crown 1994, were inadequately tested, it went on to sell more than 400,000 copies.)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 333 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st Edition/ 1st Printing edition (April 14, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517885239
• ISBN-13: 978-0517885239
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing, September 21, 1999

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This review is from: Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus--The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live (The great good food series) (Paperback)

I like my Silver Palate cookbooks and use them often. But this book was a disappointment. The recipes don't work out well without experimentation and tinkering; I don't have time to test everything and revise the recipe before I have friends over for dinner! For lower fat cooking I recommend Cooking Light's Five Star Recipes and Alice Medrich's Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts. These have both proven foolproof and delicious!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, Delicious Recipies, August 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus--The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live (The great good food series) (Paperback)

I completely disagree with the negative review given to this book. These are very simple and great tasting recipes for everyday cooking. I live in an area where exotic ingrediants are hard to come by and I have no problem finding everything for these dishes. Julee Rosso really knows how to bring out the best in food with little prep and few ingrediants. As far as "tinkering with the recipes" i guess it's all a matter of taste and all cooks automatically change recipies to suit their style (spicy, sweet, salty). I have many cookbooks and experiment often and i agree with the other reviewers that this IS one of my most used cookbooks. BRAVO!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low-fat, Day by Day Menus of Great Food, February 22, 2001

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This review is from: Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus--The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live (The great good food series) (Paperback)

Rosso has turned out lots of great cookbooks, but this one is for us who want or need every now and then to cut back and eat more sensibly.

The great thing is that this doesn't have to be boring,uninteresting food. Her zest and skills in putting together healthy food with attractive and luscious fare is evident in this collection. For example, one dinner entree I love is: Herbed brushetta, Broiled Honey Salmon, Hobo Potatoes, Asparagus Spears with Parmeasan Shards, Green Beans and Peaches in Wine.

Having tried this more than once, it's good, you'll lose pounds and smile all the while you're tasting this great food. All the nutritional analysis is there as well as great sections on smoothies and treats/snacks, etc.