Chefs' Healthy Collection

America's top chefs are serving up the perfectrecipes for the refined tastes of gourmet dining-and they're good for you aswell. Inside The Chefs' Healthy Collection are more than 150tasty recipes from the nation's top restaurants-all of which are remarkablyhealthy, containing less than 500 calories each.Peggy Barnes surveyed 77 chefs in 44 cities, coast to coast, challengingtheir culinary skills to present their best low-calorie dishes. The chefs wereasked to submit what they would recommend to their diners looking forgourmet-quality dishes without lots of unhealthy ingredients. The compilationtook form as The Chefs' Healthy Collection .This gourmet guide to fine dining appeals to the tastes of more than justcalorie counters. Pastas, appetizers, and desserts are just a sampling of theareas the tackle, and for once the lack of calories does not mean a lack offlavor. Readers, diners, and cooks alike can put away their apprehensions thathealthy gourmet dining is limited to bean sprouts and salads.Using a sophisticated nutrition program created by the U.S. Department ofAgriculture, Barnes has thoroughly accounted for each serving's calorie, fat,and cholesterol content. Each recipe is a flavorful alternative to thetraditionally over indulgent gourmet style, and caters to those who seekhealthy hearts, watch their weight, and strive to stay fit.Peggy Barnes is food editor and restaurant critic for Dayton Monthlymagazine and teaches at the prestigious DLM Cooking School. She is also amember of the American Institute of Wine and Food as well as the InternationalAssociation of Culinary Professionals.Barnes, Peggy is the author of 'Chefs' Healthy Collection' with ISBN 9780882899299 and ISBN 0882899295.