Prevention's the healthy cook

Welcome to America's newest, most authoritative kitchen companion! Prevention's The Healthy Cook is the only cookbook you'll ever need for preparing low-fat food that's not only good for you but super-delicious. The food editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books spent more than three years taste-testing recipes, trying new techniques and revising old ones. The result: 600 pages of easy-to-follow recipes, time-saving tips, health-building hints and meticulous. Step-by-step illustrations. Prevention's The Healthy Cook covers all the basics, from choosing the best cookware and keeping knives sharp to making delicious low-fat soups, main courses, side dishes and desserts. You'll discover hundreds of solutions for problems that may have stumped you in the past. To make this book even more exciting, we asked the country's top chefs - including Jacques Pepin, Charlie Trotter and Jean-Louis Palladin - to contribute their own favorite. Low-fat recipes, tailored for the home cook. The tastes will amaze you! So will the simplicity of these winning dishes. To make your time in the kitchen even easier, Prevention's The Healthy Cook contains hundreds of attractive step-by-step illustrations. You'll see at a glance exactly what you need to do to fillet a fish, skim fat from broth, sprout beans, cut onions, flute a pie crust, decorate a cake and lots more.