100 Simple Sauces for Today's Healthy Home Cooking: Easy-To-Prepare Salsas, Relishes, Chutneys, Marinades and Much More - Softcover

Jerome, Carl

 
9780805047998: 100 Simple Sauces for Today's Healthy Home Cooking: Easy-To-Prepare Salsas, Relishes, Chutneys, Marinades and Much More

Synopsis

Offers one hundred reduced-fat recipes for vegetarian sauces, tomato sauces, relishes, salsas, salad dressings, yogurt and sour cream sauces, barbecue sauces, and dessert sauces

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About the Author

Carl Jerome was a master instructor at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago for five years and was director of the James Beard Cooking School in New York.

Reviews

As the subtitle indicates, Jerome's recipes are not limited to typical sauces: Beet and Raspberry Vinegar Dressing and Tandoori Marinade/Dipping Sauce are among the nontraditional offerings. The author thinks of sauces as "accessories" and offers lots of ideas for dressing up simple dishes. Deirdre Davis's excellent A Fresh Look at Saucing Foods (LJ 12/92) includes not only sauces but also recipes and ideas for using them in specific dishes; larger collections may want Jerome's book as well.
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Sauces and marinades add flavor, texture, and excitement to the foods they accompany. Jerome's newest book offers sauces that couple with today's nutritional concerns by reducing or eliminating those fats that have traditionally predominated in classic sauces. Jerome reinvents the tradition of white sauce but replaces its butter and flour with white bean puree. Fat-reduced sour cream and buttermilk stand in for mayonnaise in a new version of ever-popular Thousand Island salad dressing. Jerome resurrects Green Goddess dressing, but leaves out its customary anchovies. Cutting back on olive oil lets the fat-conscious slather their pasta with currently voguish puttanesca sauce. Salsas now sell better than ketchup in the U.S., so Jerome devotes a chapter to the unending variety of these fresh adornments. Recipes lack nutritional analyses, reducing their utility for many. Mark Knoblauch

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