The Chez Eddy Living Heart Cookbook - Hardcover

Gotto, Antonio M., Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671767216 ISBN 13: 9780671767211

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books, 1991

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed Chez Eddy Restaurant of The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, has pioneered a heart-healthy cuisine that is also delicious, elegant, and soul satisfying. Collected here for the first time and carefully adapted for the home cook, these recipes can make everyday and holiday eating something to look forward to once again. Using a host of innovative cooking techniques and imaginative ingredients, the chefs at Chez Eddy have elevated traditional gourmet cuisine to create an ingenious menu of Southwestern Cajun, and European dishes that are low in fat, cholesterol, salt, and sugar. The results of their efforts - a wonderful union of good taste and good health - prove that it is possible to enjoy gourmet dining and still eat healthfully. This marvelous cookbook demonstrates the ultimate in what is possible with heart-healthy cuisine - from Crabmeat Enchiladas with Green Chili Sauce and Wild Boar with Plum Sauce to Salmon Antonio and even Pineapple Cheesecake - all complete with an easy-to-interpret nutritional analysis for each serving. There are scrumptious appetizers that invite nibbling, such as Sesame Chicken Fingers LeBlanc with Two Dipping sauce, sensational main course salads like Country Garden Pasta Salad and Chez Eddy Sliced Beef Salad with Five-Spice Dressing, plus such Chez Eddy favorites as Chez Eddy Chicken Fajitas and Beggar's Purses with Ancho Chili Sauce (corn crepes filled with grill chicken). Meat dishes such as Medallions of Beef Marchand de Vin and Escallops of Veal with Apricot Coulis to name only two are so rich and savory you will wonder how they could possibly be heart-wise. And because no meal is complete without a luscious dessert, they serve up a host of tempting concoctions ranging from Blueberry Cobbler and Apple Brownies to Lemon Crepes and Angel Food Cake with Raspberry Sauce.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

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.

From Library Journal:

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.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671767216
• ISBN 13: 9780671767211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310