The Smart Chicken and Fish Cookbook: Over 200 Delicious and Nutritious Recipes for Main Courses, Soups, and Salads (Jane Kinderlehrer Smart Food Series) [Paperback]

Jane Kinderlehrer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Jane Kinderlehrer Smart Food Series | Publication Date: October 25, 2002

Jane Kinderlehrer’s Smart Chicken and Smart Fish are now collected in this one volume, creating a doubly delicious selection of high-fiber, low-fat, low- or no-sugar, low-sodium, and low-cholesterol recipes for main courses, soups, and salads.

However you make your poultry, whether roasted, sautÉed, poached, grilled, baked, or stir fried, make it healthy and delicious with these 101 chicken recipes. Recommended by Julia Child, the tasty poultry offerings include dozens of chicken, capon, turkey breast, pot pie, and stew selections, plus a glossary on terminology and helpful hints on stuffing carving, storing, and freezing.

Regarding fish, here are 101 recipes, encompassing 26 varieties of fin-fish, covering baking, broiling, poaching, grilling, smoking, and sautÉing, and including appetizers, salads, chowders, gumbos, and main courses. Jane also reports all the important facts on fish safety, selection, menu planning, and caloric and nutritional analysis.

Editorial Reviews

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Kinderlehrer knows how to strike a balance between taste and nutrition that will have diners clamoring for more. -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Jane Kinderlehrer’s first books on nutrition and health were published over 40 years ago, including her 500,000-copy bestselling Confessions of a Sneaky Organic Cook. For nineteen years, she worked with Rodale Press as senior editor and then food editor of Prevention Magazine. She is also the author of The Smart Baking Cookbook.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition (October 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557045445
• ISBN-13: 978-1557045447
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Meat, Poultry & Seafood > Poultry
  • #73 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Low Cholesterol

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4.0 out of 5 stars Love the recipes; the tone, not so much, August 31, 2011

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This review is from: The Smart Chicken and Fish Cookbook: Over 200 Delicious and Nutritious Recipes for Main Courses, Soups, and Salads (Jane Kinderlehrer Smart Food Series) (Paperback)

This is an excellent cookbook for anyone wishing to find healthy recipes using different varieties of chicken and fish. Although it isn't described as specifically a kosher cookbook, the fact is that all of the recipes are kosher-compatible, using only kosher fish (i.e. no shellfish) and not mixing meat with dairy products. The recipes vary in level of difficulty, but none of them seem extremely complicated, and none takes up more than a page and a half (the book is fairly small in size and the print nice and large, so "a page and a half" isn't as much as it sounds like!).

If I have one negative comment, it's about the tone of the introduction to some of the recipes. It's a little preachy and condescending, as though the writer were giving a nutrition lecture to schoolkids (e.g. the line "....the nutrient that puts a twinkle in your eye" nearly made me drop the book), as well as going into just a bit more detail than I really need about exactly which organs in the body are aided by the particular ingredients in a given recipe (nobody wants to keep seeing the words "blood-building" or reading anything about the bones or liver or pancreas when looking through a cookbook to find something tempting to prepare - reading recipes is supposed to stimulate the appetite, not kill it!). Still, that aside, I definitely recommend this, and I consider myself lucky to have found it on a store shelf a few years ago.