The Chez Eddy living heart cookbook - Hardcover

Chez Eddy is a Houston restaurant that serves a kind of nouvelle American Southwestern fare, as high-flying as marinated wild boar with plum-port wine sauce, as au courant as radicchio/arugula/jicama/fresh-corn salad with beet vinaigrette-- but with one difference you're unlikely to notice without being told (and that's a plus): Conceived by heart-specialist Gotto, the restaurant makes every dish conform to American Heart Association guidelines for fat, cholesterol, sodium, and calories. Obviously, the recipes here are a far cry from the ones in those dreary AHA cookbooks. Though many diet cookbooks make the promise, these dishes--among them escallops of veal with apricot coulis, broiled swordfish with red pepper salsa, tamarind sauce with an unexpected dollop of Marsala wine, vitello tonnato with reduced-calorie mayonnaise cut further with nonfat yogurt, and two cheesecakes (one of ricotta, one nonfat yogurt, both using liqueurs)--really have the pizazz and sumptuous qualities that make a heart-healthy diet easy to maintain. (Of course, calorie-watchers still have to sacrifice in the serving-size department.) And they're not especially demanding of the cook. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Heart specialist Gotto is coauthor with colleague Michael DeBakey of The Living Heart ( LJ 4/1/77) and The Living Heart Diet ( LJ 1/85); Chez Eddy was his inspiration. Established in 1981 at Houston's Methodist Hospital, it is a restaurant serving "heart-healthy" food that is neither boring nor bland. The cuisine is a mixture of Southwestern, new American, and classical, and the recipes are for sophisticated, upscale restaurant food: Crab Pancakes with Jicama-Ginger Salsa, Venison with Red Wine and Fig Sauce. Some require a fair amount of advance preparation, but they are written for the home cook; in addition to nutrition information, presentation suggestions are included for each dish. Recommended.
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