Giada's Feel Good Food: My Healthy Recipes and Secrets Author: Visit Amazon's Giada De Laurentiis Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0307987205 | Format: PDF
Giada's Feel Good Food: My Healthy Recipes and Secrets Description
About the Author
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS is the Emmy award-winning star of Food Network's
Everyday Italian, Giada at Home, and
Giada in Paradise; a judge on
Food Network Star; a contributing correspondent for NBC's
Today show; and the author of six
New York Times bestselling books. She attended the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris and worked at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant before starting her own catering company, GDL Foods. Born in Rome, she grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives with her husband, Todd, and their daughter, Jade.
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1 edition (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307987205
- ISBN-13: 978-0307987204
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
First of all, let me just say -- cooking healthy is challenging, especially if you are looking for food that is both flavorful, healthy, and light on the calories.
I've seen too many "diet" cookbooks that use too many weird "diet" ingredients, calling for ingredients such as artificial sweeteners, fat free dairy, and so on (ie. Rocco Dispirito in his "Now Eat this!" series -- although his Now Eat This! Italian is pretty awesome). I've always thought that they were pretty redundant, because I could have just substituted fat free/sugar free ingredients with normal recipes and get similar results.
Then there are these other cookbooks that emphasize on "a healthy twist on COMFORT foods". Seriously --I understand the whole need for comfort food recipes and all (because they are awesome of course), but I really don't need 10 "healthy" cookbooks that basically have different versions of the same old Mac & Cheese, Chilli, Sloppy Joes. It's like they (the cookbook writers) have to have a check list to check off when they are writing these cookbooks, instead of using a bit of creativity to maybe give their own twist onto them.
Giada's Feel Good Food is great because she is very creative in coming up flavor combinations for her recipes, often giving her own twist on the classics. So, instead of the oh-so-boring "miso/ ginger-soy salmon" that a lot of the diet cookbooks tend to include, she comes up with a "Grilled salmon and pineapple with avocado dressing" that has the crunchiness from the seared salmon, the sweet and tangy-ness from the pineapple, and the creaminess from the avocado dressing.
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