New Flavours: Lighter and Healthier Fine Dining at Home (Flavours Cookbook) [Paperback]

Elaine Elliot (Author), Virginia Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997 | Series: Flavours Cookbook

Today's best cuisine begins with fresh, high-quality ingredients and a willingness to experiment with tradition. Here you'll find dishes that reflect the trend towards lighter and healthier ingredients--without sacrificing flavour, of course!

New Flavours features over 100 all-new recipes from the finest restaurants and chefs, including soups, salads, seafood and lucheon fare, entrées, condiments and desserts. Among the new flavours you'll discover in these pages are Bay of Fundy Mussels in Spicy Thai Sauce, Chicken Camembert, Vegetable Paella with Saffron and Curry, Paradise Jelly, Pears on a Cloud--and many more creative, innovative, and healthy dishes guaranteed to delight and satisfy everyone who loves food.

These recipes look as great as they taste--and anyone can make them! Photographed on location at fine restaurants and country inns, all these recipes have been tested and adapted for home cooking.

New Flavours: Lighter and Healthier Fine Dining at Home is an innovative volume in the tantalizing Flavours series of fully illustrated cookbooks.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"New Flavours: Lighter and Healthier Fine Dining at Home would make a wonderful, and welcome, addition to any cookbook collection... Every one of the recipes in New Flavours is a gem. Accompanied by colour photographs that wil tempt you, it is an excellent showcase for the varied cuisine on offer in the Maritimes. An essential for both tourist and resident, New Flavours will be treasured by any cook." (Alison Walton New Glasgow Evening News )

"Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee, with photographer Julian Beveridge, collaborate to show the region's best restaurants and their recipes that never, ever forget that food is about pleasure. The photos flatter the beautiful presentation of these dishes, and the recipes are simple and flexible enough to inspire the cook in anyone." (Atlantic Books Today )

"The presentation is gracious and the results persuasive ...the methods are clear and can be used as an opportunity to develop culinary expertise. A great source of ideas for special occasion meals." (Janet Arnett Canadian Book Review Annual )

"Two sisters from the Annapolis Valley, Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee, have published two well-illustrated collections of Maritime restaurant recipes." (Julian Armstrong Montreal Gazette )

About the Author

ELAINE ELLIOT is a food enthusiast who has spent countless weekends seeking out new and exciting food ideas at fine restaurants and inns. Her Flavours series includes 12 titles, ranging from Maple Syrup to Lobster. With her sister Virginia Lee, Elaine is also the author of the bestselling Maritime Flavours Guidebook & Cookbook. She lives in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

VIRGINIA LEE is the authour of Pacific Flavours Guidebook and Cookbook and co-authour, with her sister Elaine Elliot, of Maritime Falvours Guidebook and Cookbook as well as several other cookbooks that specialize in coastal cuisine. She is a native Nova Scotian whose three children live in British Columbia and the Caribbean. She divides her time between Lower Canard, Nova Scotia and Memphis, Tennessee.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Formac (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088780408X
• ISBN-13: 978-0887804083
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,826,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)