100 Simple Sauces for Today's Healthy Home Cooking: Easy-To-Prepare Salsas, Relishes, Chutneys, Marinades and Much More [Paperback]

Carl Jerome (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

This easy-to-use book asks readers to use sauces as the accessories in a modern cook's wardrobe to add interest and excitement to meals. This collection includes recipes for 100 sauces, including vegetarian sauces, tomato sauces, chutneys, relishes, salsas, salad dressings, meat-, fish-, and poultry-flavored sauces, yogurt and sour cream sauces, barbecue and chili sauces, and dessert sauces.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

As the subtitle indicates, Jerome's recipes are not limited to typical sauces: Beet and Raspberry Vinegar Dressing and Tandoori Marinade/Dipping Sauce are among the nontraditional offerings. The author thinks of sauces as "accessories" and offers lots of ideas for dressing up simple dishes. Deirdre Davis's excellent A Fresh Look at Saucing Foods (LJ 12/92) includes not only sauces but also recipes and ideas for using them in specific dishes; larger collections may want Jerome's book as well.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Sauces and marinades add flavor, texture, and excitement to the foods they accompany. Jerome's newest book offers sauces that couple with today's nutritional concerns by reducing or eliminating those fats that have traditionally predominated in classic sauces. Jerome reinvents the tradition of white sauce but replaces its butter and flour with white bean puree. Fat-reduced sour cream and buttermilk stand in for mayonnaise in a new version of ever-popular Thousand Island salad dressing. Jerome resurrects Green Goddess dressing, but leaves out its customary anchovies. Cutting back on olive oil lets the fat-conscious slather their pasta with currently voguish puttanesca sauce. Salsas now sell better than ketchup in the U.S., so Jerome devotes a chapter to the unending variety of these fresh adornments. Recipes lack nutritional analyses, reducing their utility for many. Mark Knoblauch

Product Details

• Paperback: 159 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P); 1st edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805047999
• ISBN-13: 978-0805047998
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,271,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good basic book for sauces, June 4, 2011

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This review is from: 100 Simple Sauces for Today's Healthy Home Cooking: Easy-To-Prepare Salsas, Relishes, Chutneys, Marinades and Much More (Paperback)

One thing about being a healthy eater and eating a lot of veggies: it takes a lot of will power to eat them plain, steamed or boiled without any accompanying taste enhancers. I've always been interested in how restaurants can make veggies taste so much better than I can. Now I know how to match their taste enhancements: sauces!

But this nice book has more than just sauces for veggies: it has sauces for meats, desserts, even, (get ready for it) spaghetti and pasta! Rounding our the book are salad dressings 9sauses for lettuce), BBQ sauces, and marinades.

It was worth the price to me.