Smart Chefs Stay Slim: Lessons in Eating and Living From America's Best Chefs

by Allison Adato, Art Smith (Foreword by)

Overview

Chefs are around delicious, tempting food all day. So how do they manage to look good while eating so well? When People magazine editor Allison Adato found covering the restaurant world was taking a toll on her own waistline, she turned to top chefs for their secrets.  Here, more than three dozen greats like Eric Ripert, Thomas Keller, Rick Bayless, Tom Colicchio, and Michelle Bernstein reveal how to:

• Always enjoy the food you love

• Choose big flavors for maximum pleasure

• Read a restaurant menu and indulge the way smart chefs do

• Cook the easy, satisfying meals that pros prepare at home

• Use lemon, salt, and olive oil to make almost any dish terrific

• End your day with a square of chocolate

You don’t have to cook like a four-star chef to eat like one! Like so many Americans, celebrity chefs also face the strain of balancing a good diet with a busy lifestyle. Now they share their own smart tips, scrumptious recipes and personal stories of losing over 100 pounds, of taking off baby weight and eating with kids, and of celebrating a love for food without sacrificing health—all while indulging an appetite for life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451239303
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.23(h) x 0.68(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Allison Adato is an award-winning journalist and senior editor at People magazine. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Times magazine, and she was a staff writer at Life magazine. She lives with her family in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword Art Smith x

Introduction: Why Ask Chefs? xiii

Who's Who in Smart Chefs Stay Slim xxi

1 Eat What You Love 1

Behind the Lessons: Alexandra Guarnaschelli 15

2 Eat with Your Eyes Open 17

3 Eat the Way Your Family Did 35

Behind the Lessons: Sang Yoon 51

4 Eat Breakfast 54

5 Eat Big Flavors 67

Behind the Lessons: Eric Ripert 93

6 Eat In Often 96

Behind the Lessons: Nate Appleman 119

7 Eat Your Vegetables 121

8 Eat Out Smart 136

Behind the Lessons: Michelle Bernstein 155

9 Eat Dessert 158

10 Eat and Drink Thoughtfully 175

11 Eat to Fuel Your Body 188

Behind the Lessons: Rick Moonen 209

12 Eat Around, the World 212

Behind the Lessons: Andrea Reusing 223

13 Eat After Eating for Two 225

Behind the Lessons: Michael Psilakis 245

14 Eat As If Your Life Depends on It 247

15 Eat with and Cook for Friends 264

Behind the Lessons: Me 284

Acknowledgments 289

Recipe Index 291

What People are Saying About This

Wall Street Journal

"A refreshingly readable—not to mention appetizing—alternative to run-of-the-mill diet books."

Marion Nestle

"Overeating may be an occupational hazard, but some chefs manage to maintain their weight. Smart Chefs reveals their successful strategies for eating what they love-in moderation, of course. Adato presents their strategies as 'lessons' that should work for anyone who adores food. Smart Chefs is fun to read and packed with good advice."—Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and Author of What to Eat

Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg

“People magazine senior editor Allison Adato has written a book that’s a breezy, entertaining read, sharing lessons, tips, and recipes from some of America’s best-known chefs in answer to the compelling question, ‘How do chefs stay slim?’ It’s filled with enjoyable anecdotes that promise to help fuel your efforts to do the same.”

Cooking Light

"Wise about mindful eating, portion strategies, eating for savor, etc. Well-written, too."

Gail Simmons

"Smart Chefs Stay Slim is at once approachable, realistic and mouth-watering."

Susan Ungaro

“Have you ever wondered how celebrity chefs stay healthy and slim? Well, wonder no more! Allison Adato has skillfully and wittily pried ninety sensible and doable secrets and some delicious recipes from America’s most famous award-winning chefs. Yes, you can have your steak and chocolate!”

From the Publisher

"Sure, chefs are delighted to talk about childhood obesity, and a healthier America, but getting this personal? Sharing private details about their own struggles and frustrations with weight? It's very rare. I love this book because of the great practical tips. But I really love this book because it humanizes so many legendary chefs, who aren't above taking inventory of their own bodies — as emotional as that can be — just like the rest of us."—Alyssa Shelasky, author of Apron Anxiety and editor at New York magazine’s Grub Street

Cookistry.com

"Instead of a book that tells you to avoid foods, feel guilty, deprive yourself, and turn your dinner table into a science experiment, [Smart Chefs Stay Slim] is really all about welcoming good food into your life. It's about living a life surrounded by good food — and some of it very decadent — without driving yourself crazy. . . I plan on reading it twice."

Editorial Reviews

"Overeating may be an occupational hazard, but some chefs manage to maintain their weight. Smart Chefs reveals their successful strategies for eating what they love-in moderation, of course. Adato presents their strategies as 'lessons' that should work for anyone who adores food. Smart Chefs is fun to read and packed with good advice."—Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and Author of What to Eat — Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New

"Smart Chefs Stay Slim is at once approachable, realistic and mouth-watering." — Gail Simmons

"A breezy, entertaining read sharing lessons, tips and recipes from some of America's best-known chefs in answer to the compelling question, 'How do chefs stay slim?' It's filled with enjoyable anecdotes that promise to help fuel your efforts to do the same."—Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, James Beard Award–Winning Authors of the Bestseller The Flavor Bible and The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine — Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, James Beard Award-winning authors of the bes

"Sure, chefs are delighted to talk about childhood obesity, and a healthier America, but getting this personal? Sharing private details about their own struggles and frustrations with weight? It's very rare. I love this book because of the great practical tips. But I really love this book because it humanizes so many legendary chefs, who aren't above taking inventory of their own bodies — as emotional as that can be — just like the rest of us."—Alyssa Shelasky, author of Apron Anxiety and editor at New York magazine’s Grub Street — Alyssa Shelasky, author of Apron Anxiety and editor at New York Maga

“Have you ever wondered how celebrity chefs stay healthy and slim? Well, wonder no more! Allison Adato has skillfully and wittily pried ninety sensible and doable secrets and some delicious recipes from America’s most famous award-winning chefs. Yes, you can have your steak and chocolate!” — Susan Ungaro, President, James Beard Foundation

“People magazine senior editor Allison Adato has written a book that’s a breezy, entertaining read, sharing lessons, tips, and recipes from some of America’s best-known chefs in answer to the compelling question, ‘How do chefs stay slim?’ It’s filled with enjoyable anecdotes that promise to help fuel your efforts to do the same.” — Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, Authors of the Bestseller THE FLAVOR BIBLE

From the Publisher

Instead of a book that tells you to avoid foods, feel guilty, deprive yourself, and turn your dinner table into a science experiment, [Smart Chefs Stay Slim] is really all about welcoming good food into your life. It's about living a life surrounded by good food — and some of it very decadent — without driving yourself crazy. . . I plan on reading it twice.

Cookistry.com

"A refreshingly readable--not to mention appetizing--alternative to run-of-the-mill diet books."

Wall Street Journal

"Wise about mindful eating, portion strategies, eating for savor, etc. Well-written, too."

Cooking Light