The Chez Eddy Living Heart Cookbook

Grilled Chicken with Orange-Cilantro Sauce, Angel Food Cake with Raspberries, Broiled Lamb Medallions with Garlic--these heart-healthy recipes from the acclaimed Chez Eddy Restaurant in Houston's Methodist Hospital are delicious and easy to prepare. 175 recipes. A James Beard Award-winner.

This cookbook from the Chez Eddy Restaurant of the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas provides heart-healthy, elegant, satisfying recipes. Most recipes are for holidays and special events.

Here, for the first time, are the innovative and delicious low-fat recipes that have made the Chez Eddy Restaurant in Houston, Texas, a leader in the development of heart-healthy cuisine, by the author of The Living Heart Diet. Using a variety of cooking techniques and imaginative fresh ingredients these recipes prove that we no longer have to sacrifice taste for the pleasures of health.

In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as "the largest medical complex in the world," had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s. Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores how the hospital-civic relationship, in which medical centers embraced a business-oriented model, remade the deindustrialized city into the "medical metropolis." From the 1940s to the present, the changing business of American health care reshaped American cities into sites for cutting-edge biomedical and clinical research, medical education, and innovative health business practices. This transformation relied on local policy and economic decisions as well as broad and homogenizing national forces, including HMOs, biotechnology programs, and hospital privatization. Today, the medical metropolis is considered by some as a triumph of innovation and revitalization and by others as a symbol of the excesses of capitalism and the inequality still pervading American society.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.