Holiday Entertaining

This features dishes from all over the world for everyday family meals as well as ones for special feasts and festivals, such as Kwanzaa, New Year's Day, and Christmas. Foodies will love the foodway aspect this book has to offer for the author provides complete historical accounts for these different events and dishes. Throughout the book are sidebars with quotes, historical highlights, and other intriguing information on soups. The author begins with an engrossing, in-depth look at the origins and history of soup itself, and a look at soup's role through literature and proverbs. She explains how to create your own soup stocks. If you've ever visited the SoupSong website, some of this may be familiar for the author runs the site and puts out a monthly soup newsletter.

Even during the holidays, there can be dietary concerns. For that reason, it's a good idea to use low-fat ingredients when possible. Now it is easier than ever to do so with the publication of "101 Low-Fat Feasts: Tried-and-Tested Recipes" from Hylas/BBC. Orlando Murrin served as editor-in-chief for this book. For each nutritious recipe, there are easy to follow directions and a nutritional analysis giving both the saturated and unsaturated fat content.

These recipes were originally published in BBC Good Food Magazine, and were tested in the Good Food kitchen. The emphasis is on satisfying entrees, appetizers, and other dishes that taste as good as their high-fat counterparts. Guaranteed results and excellent flavor are what you get with these vegetarian, meat, fish, seafood, pasta, and rice dishes.

Those on low-fat diets need not give up dessert. Karen Pellegrin shows that to be the case in "Power Desserts-the Ultimate Collection of Nutrition-Packed, Reduced Fat Indulgences" from Champion Press. Be prepared to enjoy the wonderful flavors these dishes have to offer for these aren't your everyday, boring, low-fat desserts.

By using ingenious substitutions, such as egg substitutes and no-fat margarines, the author came up with easy to make, full-flavored desserts that actually taste good. From delectable cookies and chocolate treats to cheese cake and pound cake, this book features over 50 recipes. For each recipe, the author provides comprehensive nutritional analysis. Unlike most desserts that are merely empty calories, these are nutrient-rich. In the introduction, the author provides details on balanced diets and baking techniques.

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