Sunday, December 21, 2008

Easy Exotic or Cuisine of Armenia

Easy Exotic: A Model's Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World

Author: Padma Lakshmi

In Easy Exotic: Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World, Padma Lakshmi offers luscious recipes culled from her many travels, in easy-to-prepare, low-fat versions. These simple yet elegant dishes are perfect for the busy, health-conscious cook.

Easy Exoticfeatures low-fat versions of many savory dishes, such as Provencale Tomato-Potato Stew, Baked Swordfish with Tomato and Basil, Rani Rice Pilaf, Coconut Chicken, Penne all' Arrabbiata, as well as mouth-watering desserts like Warm Indian Rice Pudding and Apple Gallettes. Each recipe-there are over sixty in all-includes preparation and cooking times, and a complete nutritional profile. And all the recipes can be prepared in under thirty minutes. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants cooking to be fast, fun, healthy and delicious.

Easy Exotic: Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World won the 1999 Versailles World Cookbook Fair Award for Best First Book.

Library Journal

Here are two celebrity cookbooks by celebrities, not celebrity chefs. Singer Labelle loves food and cooking; she even takes her pots and pans with her when she's on tour so that she can whip up a meal in her hotel room after a show. Here are recipes for what she likes best, many of them family favorites handed down from her grandmother, mother, and others: Pass-It-On Pot Roast, Aunt Verdelle's Savory Red Rice, Fierce Fried Corn, Baby Henry's Bread Pudding. Childhood memories, anecdotes about life on the road, and touching recollections about her family are interspersed throughout the book. LaBelle's memoir, Don't Block the Blessings (Riverhead, 1996), was a huge best seller, and her cookbook is sure to be popular. Lakshmi is a supermodel who was born in India, grew up in the United States, and travels frequently to exotic--and less-exotic--locales for her job. Here she sets down about five dozen recipes for the food she likes to cook and eat, organized by country (or continent) of origin: Spain, France, Italy, India, Asia, and Morocco. Most are standards, and the text, while well written, would seem to be of little interest to anyone other than supermodel groupies. Not a necessary purchase.

What People Are Saying

David Rosengarten
David Rosengarten, The Food Network
...truly sensual food... from the world's most sensual cookbook author! Delicious.


Rocco DiSpirito
Rocco DiSpirito, Chef/Proprietor, Union Pacific
...reestablishes the allure of the world's diverse cuisines...exciting flavor combinations speak directly to the sensibilities of the modern American palate.




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Cuisine of Armenia

Author: Sonia Uvezian

This acknowledged classic is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive view of Armenian cookery. A brilliant exploration of one of the world's most exciting culinary traditions, this landmark volume contains hundreds of splendid recipes, many of them for dishes previously unknown in the West. No serious food lover should be without this bible of Armenian cooking!

Mimi Sheraton

A stunning presentation of the rich and aromatic fare of that much-beleaguered country. -- New York Magazine

Jean Anderson

It is well written and researched, the recipes are set down with clarity and consistency, and for my money, are as original a collection as I have seen lately. -- Publishers Weekly

Washington Post

A study of Armenian cuisine. A beautifully produced tribute.

Midwest Book Review

The 25th anniversary edition of a classic cookbook, this has been revised and updated for new audiences. Several new recipes have been added, but the book even in its original form remains a standard reference for any interested in Armenian cuisine, with its range of recipes and cultural insights.

New York Times Book Review

Handsome, well thought out, clearly written, authentic.

Hartford Courant

This is an exceptional cookbook containing a dazzling collection of simple and exotic recipes...A treasure that every adventurous cook should possess, one that a mother would hand down to her daughter and she, in time, to her daughter.

Josef Mossman

My intense interest in things Armenian was inspired many years ago by several factors...a gripping novel called The Forty Days of Musa Dagh...written by Franz Werfel..."My Name is Aram" by William Saroyan...Also, I'm very fond of the music of Aram Khachaturian...

Comes now a new reason for my Armenian enthusiasm. We used to hear a lot about "the starving Armenians" but...it is hard to think of Armenians being hungry when examining The Cuisine of Armenia by Sonia Uvezian...It is a book of recipes so rich, so lavish and exotic that most cooks will readily discard any prejudices they ever had against so-called "foreign food." -- Des Moines Register

WCBS Radio New York

A scholarly work. The definitive Armenian kitchen aid.

Stan Reed

A triumph of a cookbook. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

International Cookbook Revue

The standard in its field since its publication in the early 1970s, The Cuisine of Armenia covers the range of Armenian cookery...more thoroughly...than any other book on Armenian cuisine.

Committee for Cultural Relations with Armenians Abroad - Yerevan, Armenia

The book is unique, beyond all kinds of praise and appreciation.



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