Cocktails or Healthy Kitchen

Cocktails: Classics and Trend-Setters with and Without Alcohol, Delicious Recipes for Cocktail Snacks

Author: Alessandra Redies

Aperitifs, cocktails, coladas, after-dinner drinks, and even lo-alcohol and no-alcohol drinks—they're all here in this fail-safe handbook for home entertaining. Each drink recipe is categorized according to its basic ingredient: gin, rum, brandy, tequila, whiskey, or vodka. Here are easy-to-follow directions for making classic cocktails like the Manhattan, the Martini, or an Old Fashioned. Here too are recipes for trendy, new cocktails—creations like Long Island Iced Tea, which mixes several liquors with fruit and a cola beverage, or the Latin Lover, which combines fruit juice, fruit slices, and ice with tequila. Party hosts will find recipes for more than 100 different drinks, as well as suggestions for party snacks, and even recommended cures for hangovers. Color photos on every two-page spread show prepared drinks, as well as the steps involved in making many of them. Also shown and explained are various bartender's tools, the right glasses for the right drinks, and techniques for slicing fruits and blending ingredients.

See also: The House or Wilsons Ghost

Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life and Spirit

Author: Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil—author of the bestselling Eating Well for Optimum Health—brings to this perfect collaboration a comprehensive philosophy of nutrition grounded in scientific fact. Rosie Daley brings to it her innovative style.

Their lively dialogue about ingredients and preparation makes clear that there are many approaches to creative, healthy cooking. Information is provided on such subjects as the real meaning of "organic," the safety of our water, the most health-giving oils, how much salt/sugar is good for us—and much more. There are tips on losing weight, developing good eating habits in children and nurturing seniors.

The Healthy Kitchen will forever change the way you cook for yourself and your family.

Publishers Weekly

What might at first seem a jumble of nutrition facts and recipes turns out to be a stimulating invitation to healthy, pleasurable eating. Well-known for his holistic approaches to physical and mental health, physician Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) loves good food. Not one to settle for bland albeit health-promoting fare, Weil insists that not only are low-fuss, delicious meals and good health more easily attainable than most Americans imagine, they actually go hand in hand. Coauthor and former Oprah Winfrey chef Daley (In the Kitchen with Rosie), provides recipes that, for the most part, reflect Weil's conception of the optimum diet. (Where they differ, Weil offers options.) Weil's introduction is a concise version of his dietary philosophy, with more advice scattered throughout the book. All of the 135 recipes include nutrition counts (calories, fat, cholesterol, etc.). According to Weil, eating has become yet another stressful activity that must be fit into jam-packed days. To remedy this, Weil and Daley not only offer satisfying recipes that make use of nourishing, readily available ingredients, they give tips on stocking the pantry, preparation, reading food labels and daily menu planning. Recipes include tempting twists on classics (eggs, grilled fish, pasta), to more adventurous items (broccoli pancakes). While miso, tofu and yogurt may not be appetizing to the meat-and-potatoes crowd, others willing to spread their culinary wings will find in these recipes and the authors' enthusiasm for good food a serious incentive to get their daily requirements of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. (Apr.) Forecast: With both Weil and Daley combining efforts, expect nothing but great sales. The book is a selection of BOMC, QPB, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, One Spirit Book Club and The Good Cook. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This appealing collaboration (first printing, 750,000 copies) between Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) and Daley (In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes) is filled with healthful recipes and information on topics ranging from growing herbs to wine to the Mediterranean diet. Recipes contain nutrition information, but this is not "diet food": recipes include Smoked Fish with Horseradish Sauce, Roasted Cornish Hens with Roasted Garlic, and Thai Shrimp and Papaya Salad. There are "Tips from Rosie's Kitchen" and boxes called "Andy Suggests" scattered throughout the text, and the authors don't always agree (Weil often opts for "more spice"; he doesn't eat chicken, but Daley does). Obviously an essential purchase; most libraries will want multiple copies. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/01; BOMC, Literary Guild, Good Cook, etc.] Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.