Edward Giobbi and Richard Wolff's Eat Right, Eat Well--The Italian Way is a collection of 560 tasty Italian dishes written with health in mind. Giobbi, an Italian American artist,
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contributes the recipes; Wolff, a cardiologist, provides the dietary advice. Nutritional information is listed following each recipe (all counts are given for the whole dish, not for some tiny and unrealistic little serving), and appendices discuss the connection between diet and heart disease, weight loss, exercise, and the like. Hardly a wheat-grass- and brown-rice-pushing health-food treatise, this book is driven by Giobbi's passion for food. Many recipes are framed by his memories of Italy and cooking with friends or by his probing analyses of ingredients. At one point, he goes so far as to list, in order of preference, his eight favorite brands of pasta. The dishes are, for the most part, simple; Pasta Primavera with pine nuts, tomatoes, and arugula is typical fare. If that doesn't strike your fancy, Giobbi offers up more than 90 other pasta dishes--try Rigatoni with Shellfish and Brandy or Pasta with Mushrooms, Asparagus, and Clams. This is food you can make, quickly and in good conscience, that hasn't forgotten that eating is fun. --David Kalil --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Great American Vegetarian is the revised edition of Atlas's American Harvest (1987). In the decade since, many more fresh fruits and vegetables and once-exotic ingredients have become available. Atlas has revised her text to reflect the expanding marketplace, and she has also added more than 50 new recipes. With the ever-increasing interest in vegetarian cooking, most libraries could use Atlas's updated collection of regional specialties. Giobbi and Wolff's first edition of Eat Right, Eat Well (1985), something of a groundbreaker at the time, was widely praised. The authors have revised their book to reflect both the fact that although a low-fat diet may be healthful, one in which fat is severe
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