Pacific Light Cooking [Hardcover]

Ruth Law (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1998

Over the past eighteen years, Ruth Law has travelled through China, Japan, Korea, and Hawaii, collecting hundreds of recipes for light and nutritious local foods. After carefully screening each recipe for ways to further reduce fat and calories, here she presents an assortment of 156 home dishes made with readily available ingredients that are easy to prepare. From Spicy Thai Chicken Salad to Hawaiian Tropical Salsa, flavorful choices for every course mean that anyone can prepare healthy and satisfying meals with all the exotic appeal of the East.
•The only comprehensive, healthy pan-Asian cookbook.
•These are light recipes for health-conscious cooks.
•Complete nutritional analysis for every recipe.
•Ruth Law's Indian Light Cooking has sold more than 16,000 copies and was a selection of the HomeStyle Book Club.
•The author is a tireless promoter who makes frequent appearances preparing dishes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Both El Nino and Ruth Law are turning up the heat in the Pacific: both are warming the globe. Thank God for this sensitive treatise on gastronomic warming to delight those we all love." -- Graham Kerr, international culinary consultant

"I always think of Pacific Rim cooking as light, but these carefully crafted recipes are even lighter. In this well-researched book on the cuisine of chefs and home cooks in Pacific Rim countries, Ruth Law manages to eliminate fat from traditional dishes while preserving their authentic flavors." -- Jacques Pepin, cookbook author and host of his own PBS-TV series

"The mysteries and magic of food are Ruth's passion and her life's workshe has a rare talent for translating Asian cooking methods, tools and ingredients to make then 'user-friendly' for Western cooks without sacrificing flavor. For Ruth, flavor is the bottom lineshe knows just what to adapt and what to leave alone to make a dish sizzle and sing." -- Martin Yan, host of the PBS series Yan Can Cook

Cooking teacher Law has traveled widely throughout the Pacific Rim countries, and her Southeast Asia Cookbook featured recipes from many of the cuisines included in this book, a follow-up to her Indian Light Cooking. She points out that in large part the food cooked in these countries-from China and Japan to Indonesia to Hawaii-is "inherently healthful." Although in some cases she has lightened the recipes, Law has tried to stay true to the original dishes as much as possible. With fresh, vibrantly flavored dishes like Indonesian Spicy Chicken and Roasted Eggplant with Vietnamese Mint Sauce, this is by no means a boring "diet" cookbook" -- Booklist 3/15/98

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Adult; 1St Edition edition (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556115199
• ISBN-13: 978-1556115196
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,853,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!, July 9, 2002

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Betsy Jaffe "toddler mom" (South Riding, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pacific Light Cooking (Hardcover)

This book is a real treat for those following a healthy lifestyle, just chockful of great recipes. I appreciate the nutritional info so much -- it is so rare in Asian cookbooks.

The Lemon Chicken is outstanding -- that recipe alone is worth the price of the book.

Unlike her Southeast Asian cookbook, Pacific Light has no color photos and few anecdotes about the region. But the recipes are fantastic and I love knowing I can indulge in Asian fare whenever I want and still follow a healthy diet!