Cooking Light Global Kitchen

It is an exciting time to be in the kitchen with so many incredible, flavorful ingredients from around the globe in our local supermakets. We can thank globalization for stimulating our taste buds--and for making it easier to eat healthy. David Joachim, Author

Cooking Light Global Kitchen brings a world of flavor, texture, and enticing aromas to your everyday meals. In this book, the sometimes intimidating topic of preparing your favorite ethnic-inspired dishes is made easy, approachable, and, most importantly, doable for home cooks of any skill level, by using ethnic ingredients easy-to-find in your local grocery store!

New York Times Bestselling author David Joachim, shares fascinating stories behind the world's most loved dishes as well as tips and techniques from 15 notable chefs and experts such as Rick Bayless, Marc Vetri, Michael Solomonov, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jose Garces, Mark Bittman, and many more.

We'll show you how to create Mexican chile rellenos, homemade
pasta in the Italian tradition, Thai sticky rice, Egyptian koshari, and
many other dishes without venturing further than the supermarket.
You'll get a taste of the world without ever leaving home.

• More than 150 recipes from around the world provide adventurous eaters with plenty of options to keep their palates pleased
• Features melting pot recipes blending the flavors of multiple cuisines, appealing to America's love of fusion dishes
• All the recipes are prepared with easy-to-find ingredients, making each deliciously doable
• Full-color images of each recipe brings each dish to life
• A complete nutrition analysis shows readers they can makeonce-in-awhile favorites into everyday options
• Ingredients: Detailed information about the easy-to-find ingredients that are the basis of many of these international favorites, where to find them (mostly at the regular grocery store these days), and how to know you're picking the best.
  
  

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!

Long before "organic," "local," and "eating in season" became buzz words, Cooking Light was heralding the bene­fits of cooking in season for all the practical reasons: Food just tastes better and is better for you when it's prepared in its peak season. Cook your way through the year, and enjoy the ­ nest ingredients each season has to offer with Cooking Light Cooking Through the Seasons. As your authority on seasonal cooking, this complete cookbook highlights each season and shows you how to incorporate the freshest produce available into your home-cooked meals. You'll find helpful tips on how to handle and prepare choice ingredients, plus excellent suggestions for avor companions. With over 250 recipes to choose from, you'll never be far from a delicious season-inspired meal. All the recipes that fill the pages of this book have been tested and approved by the Cooking Light Test Kitchens staff to ensure that they're not only healthy and easy to prepare, but that they also have the all-important "yum factor."

An essential healthy cookbook for real food lovers, from the pages of Cooking light magazine. They apply bold, global flavors to local foods, sustainable seafood, and lean meats, and turn the very best seasonal market produce into gorgeous salads and fruit desserts.

Examines the biochemistry behind cooking and food preparation, rejecting such common notions as that searing meat seals in juices and that cutting lettuce causes it to brown faster

Most of us simply arent willing to sacrifice culinary excellence for meals that are good for us. Its no wonder, then, that Cooking Light is Americas leading epicurean magazine and the most trusted authority on healthy cooking. And this newest hardcover beauty is the most comprehensive collection of 1,000 top-rated, double-tested, healthy, yet rich and tasty recipes ever combined in one cookbook.

A People Magazine New Fall Cookbooks Pick Twelve-year-old Twin Chefs Lilly and Audrey are going to teach you and your kids how to make 85 taste bud-tingling recipes that are a blast to cook and eat! With an emphasis on creativity, tasty flavor combinations and ease in preparation,We {Heart} Cooking!is the perfect cookbook for kids and parents who want to prepare healthy food the whole family will love. Designed to inspire all levels of cooking, this delightful cookbook includes teachable moments about food and cooking including: Visual guides to basic cooking techniques Illustrated step-by-step recipe instructions Kitchen safety tips and recommendations Nutritional analysis with each recipe Entertaining food trivia and cooking tips sidebars From lunchbox faves to snack-time madness, The Twin Chefs' rockin' recipes are organized by mealtime — breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks, and desserts — and there is an entire chapter of fun party and holiday-themed menus to enjoy. Dishes like Dreamy Tropical Smoothies and Wok-a-licious Beef Stir Fry are sure to please kids of all ages. So tie on you aprons and learn all about healthy eating along the way. Lilly and Audrey Andrews, identical twins from Sonoma, California, are young expert chefs who attend adult classes at culinary school, have cooked side-by-side with famous chefs Wolfgang Puck, Michael Chiarello, Bob Blumer and have appeared on Good Morning America and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

**James Beard Award Winner 2013** An Instant Classic! Inspired by fresh, local ingredients; and infused with bold, authentic flavors, Cooking Light The New Way to Cook Light is a celebration of healthy cooking and eating in America today. The more than 400 mouth-watering recipes, tips, and techniques in this book represent the new way to cook light--fresh, healthy, and--most importantly--delicious. With Nine Simple Principles of Cooking Light as a guide, this beautiful collection contains recipes that are as fun and satisfying to cook as they are to eat. Enjoy a wide variety of dishes, including quick weeknight meals and special occasion dishes perfect for the holidays.