Eating healthy is about eating great food and Hand on Heart has dozens of delicious recipes that are familiar to you like Caesar Salad, Fettuccine Alfredo, Fried Chicken and pizza. There are also recipes that you should know of such as London Broil with Mushrooms Sauteed in Cognac, Seared Tuna with Sake Wasabi Sauce and Thai Coconut Shrimp. Easy to follow recipes are coupled with nutrition information in a format that makes it simple to transform your diet. Hand on Heart is the happy medium. It was written to help you eat healthy and eat great food. It is based on the premise that there are no bad foods and that you can be healthy without having to eat aduki beans and drink wheat grass juice. The key is balance. No single change – whether it is it low carb, reduced fat, high protein, low salt, etc. – will be satisfying for the long haul. Balance will. By exploring a variety of foods and learning techniques to maximize flavors and textures while reducing calories, fat and salt you can eat healthy and wonderful food. The recipes in Hand on Heart have been chosen to illustrate these techniques, equipment and ingredients placing them in the context of the current medical research about how what we eat effects our health. At the front of the book are ideas for creating a new pantry as well as equipment that will make cooking healthier recipes perfectly ordinary.
Timothy S. Harlan, MD, aka Dr. Gourmet, is Medical Director at the Tulane University School of Medicine and a chef, professor, and Emmy-winning television personality. He lives in New Orleans.
A practicing, board-certified Internist, Dr. Tim's love of food preparation began as a teenager working in the restaurant business. Starting as a dishwasher, he worked his way up to managing his first restaurant by the age of eighteen and at age twenty-two opened his own restaurant: a small French bistro.
Three years operating Le Petit Café--creating menus, being a chef and teaching cooking classes--were challenging and creative. Closing the restaurant to return to school was an important turning point. Dr. Harlan originally intended to pursue a degree in hotel and restaurant management, but events led him toward medicine and the decision to become a physician.
After finishing an undergraduate degree in anthropology and biology, Dr. Harlan went on to study at Emory University School of Medicine. Working as a caterer throughout school, he continued to be involved with food and cooking but noticed a lack of knowledge in the medical field about eating healthy and eating well. Neither patients nor health care providers understood much about a healthful diet. Patients, it seemed, were usually told not what they could eat but, rather, what theycould not eat.
In medical school, Dr. Harlan wrote It's Heartly Fare, a book best characterized as a food manual for patients with cardiovascular disease. He has published other books including, Hand on Heat: A Perfectly Ordinary Cookbook and The Dr. Gourmet Diet for Coumadin Users.
He is publisher and editor of the popular web site DrGourmet.com.
Dr. Gourmet has been an on air consultant to the TV Food Network show Cooking Thin and a host on the DIY network show AskDIY. In 2002 The Dr. Gourmet Show, which aired on regional public television, won an Emmy® award.
You can find more at drgourmet.com/tellmewhattoeat
