Glick and Baggett use their 15 years of healthy cooking experience to shift the balance of Italian cuisine toward leaner meats, less oil, part-skim cheeses, and more herbs and spices. The result of their efforts is this collection of more than 100 low-fat, easy-to-make recipes for great Italian fare, including lasagnas, risottos, pastas and sauces, calzones, and desserts. Illustrations.
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This collection of Americanized Italian recipes offers some useful ideas for lowering fat, but many of Glick and Bagget's recipes seem misplaced in a cuisine that is already naturally healthy. Each recipe includes nutritional information, but serving sizes can be misleading (e.g., 1 3/4 cups of Hot Artichoke Spread yields 25 servings, which would make a serving fractionally over a tablespoon; at 80 calories and 2.4 grams of fat per serving, that's hardly a skinny dish). When the authors stick to fresh ingredients, there are some light and tasty results: Italian Garden Orzo Salad with peppers and herbs, Braised Turkey Stew, Milan Style (an ossobuco wannabe) and Tuna Steaks with Sweet-and-Sour Tomato Relish. Some of the recipes rely unnecessarily on prepared products, e.g. commercially seasoned stuffing mix rather than stale bread in Italian Bread Soup, and a Tiramisu made with cottage cheese, marshmallow cream, Neufchatel cheese and cream cheese.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book is an absolute must if you are into Italian cooking (or even if you just slightly interested). The recipes are delicious and the instructions easy to follow. A cute little intro leads you into each recipe and nutritional data is provided. Of particular interest is the almond biscotti and various pasta sauces. After having made over one-half of the recipes in this book, I can tell you that this cookbook is one you will use again and again.
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