Cooking the RealAge Way or Paula Deen

Cooking the Realage Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock with More Than 80 Delicious and Easy Recipes

Author: Michael F Roizen

Looking for meals that are delicious, healthy, and easy to make? How does Shiitake Mushroom and Asparagus Frittata with Smoked Salmon sound? Or a Roasted Red Pepper and Kalamata Olive Sicilian Salad? Or Pistachio Pilaf with Butternut Squash and Gingered Cranberry Sauce? They sound very tasty, but would you believe they can also actually help you control your genes, making your RealAge younger? You don't have to be at the mercy of heredity. It's true: These recipes and many more have been developed and tested by Dr. Michael F. Roizen, author of the bestselling RealAge, Are You as Young as You Can Be?, and Dr. John La Puma, who is also a professionally trained chef. With his RealAge program, Dr. Roizen has already helped tens of thousands of people turn back the clock. Now he and Dr. La Puma are cooking things up in the kitchen in Cooking the RealAge Way.

Cooking the RealAge Way offers more than eighty easy, healthful, and scrumptious recipes, all of which prove that nutritious meals don't have to be time consuming, filled with hard-to-find ingredients, ortaste like they're good for you. These recipes explode in flavor and are low in aging fats and sugar and high in Omega-3 oils, flavonoids, and antioxidants. Each recipe provides a detailed description of that meal's age-reducing benefits, and every meal of the day is covered -- from breakfast's melt-in-your-mouth Golden Banana Pancakes with Fresh Raspberries to the after-dinner pièce de resistance Chocolate Strawberry Sundae. The meals are so appetizing, you'll forget that they are good for you and make them again and again.

Cooking the RealAge Way also features:

• The Kitchen IQ test -- use it to find out if your kitchen is aging you and how to stock your kitchen to make yourself younger with what you eat
• The benefits of using fresh produce in season
• The advantages of using the best herbs and spices -- and how to grow them in your garden
• Tips on improving your family's eating habits
• Easy culinary techniques, from blanching to grilling

Finally, a cookbook that both your nutritionist and inner gourmand will love.

Publishers Weekly

Roizen and La Puma, who previously joined forces on The RealAge Diet, feature more than 80 recipes full of fresh produce and whole grains. As Roizen originally posited in 1999's RealAge, biological age can differ from chronological age; here the authors argue that eating certain types of foods, particularly healthy fats, whole grains and vegetables and fruits, will slow, halt or even reverse the aging process. (Eating an ounce of nuts per day, for example, "keeps the average 55-year-old man 3.3 years younger.") The authors encourage readers to increase their "Kitchen IQ"-purchasing and using a steamer, "retraining" themselves to like healthy fats and preparing more than one meal at time are a few of the strategies. Divided by season, and prefaced by a comprehensive explanation of the healthiest foods available at different times of year, the book includes recipes such as Roasted Pepper and Fresh Mozzarella Panini, Cajun Couscous-Crusted Monkfish and Apricot Breakfast Polenta. Information about healthy cooking methods and uses for produce, herbs and spices are also incorporated. The book is repetitive in spots (that handful of nuts reappears often) and the authors are not specific enough about the studies they reference. They may also underestimate the ease of getting the family on board, and their recommendations for eating out-bring fresh vegetables to snack on, have your dishes specially prepared-may be a trifle unrealistic. Little mention is made of the role exercise can, and should, play in a healthy lifestyle, and red-meat lovers are out of luck. Buy for the healthy and very appealing recipes; consider skimming the text, which makes big promises and seems to turn a blind eye to the inevitability of natural aging. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Roizen's third book on his RealAge diet, this contains recipes and suggestions meant to help people stick with that approach. The first third contains extensive instructions for stocking a kitchen and cooking for family and friends, as well as tips on how to order when eating out. Many points are needlessly restated from section to section, and parents might be offended that in the part for teenagers the authors see fit to repeat the idea that bad foods sap energy, "leading to impotence [and] decay of quality of orgasm." Roizen and La Puma have chosen to place the recipes in seasonal order, highlighting fresh produce and giving the "RealAge effect" (how much younger it will make you if you eat it 12 times a year). Other than that piece of information, these easy-to-prepare recipes feel familiar. The last 84 pages cover starting your own garden, herbs and spices, vegetarian and organic foods, recommended references, and an index (not seen). Roizen has been featured on Oprah, so purchase where previous volumes were popular.-Deborah Shippy, Moline P.L., IL Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Books about: The Personal Trainers Handbook or The Nightly News Nightmare

Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin'

Author: Paula Deen

You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking, queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even heard some version of her Cinderella story (a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant business, a fairy-tale second marriage, and wildly popular television shows), but you have never heard the intimate details of her often bumpy road to fame and fortune.

Courageously honest, downright inspiring, and just a little bit saucy, Paula shares the highs and the lows of her life in her inimitable charming and irreverent style. She talks about her childhood, the difficulty of her first marriage, and how the death of her beloved parents precipitated a debilitating agoraphobia that crippled her for years. But even when the going got tough, Paula never lost the good grace and sense of humor that would eventually help carry her to success and stardom.

Whether she's telling tales of good times or bad, Paula Deen speaks as frankly and intimately in this memoir as few women in the public eye have ever dared. Her story is proof that the good, old-fashioned American dream is alive and kicking, and there is still such a thing as a real-life happy ending.

Publishers Weekly

Famed Savannah restaurateur Paula Deen, whose drive to create a better future for her two sons helped fuel a rags-to-riches entrepreneurial adventure, dispels the notion of herself as the model of motherly virtue, confessing to a nagging smoking habit and a less than wholesome workplace vocabulary. More seriously, she admits that chronic agoraphobia and an inability to come to terms with the effects of her first husband's drinking rendered her a less than ideal maternal figure. During the taping of an early episode of Deen's Food Network program, a meddlesome producer chided her to take only "princess bites" of on-air creations, advice that she wisely rejected. Admittedly, Deen may at times seem to sink her teeth into too many personal issues and cathartic experiences, at least for the most casual of listeners. Yet Deen's legions of fans will find themselves enthralled by the spunky, confessional tone and undeniable down-home charm of her audio performance. She addresses her listeners as "ya'll" with a grace and sincerity capable of winning hearts on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Simultaneous release with the S&S hardcover (Reviewed online). (Apr.)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Library Journal

Food network star Deen gets out of the kitchen; with an eight-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Foreword

1 Terror with No Name

2 Something Smells Good

3 On Not Listening to Yo' Momma

4 How Do You Get to Be a Woman of Substance When Your World's Fallin' Apart?

5 The Terror Did Have a Name

6 The Bag Lady

7 The Bottoming Out and the New Beginning

8 What I Did for Love

9 The Lady & Sons

10 Sharing Recipes

11 Love on a Tug: Michael

12 How I Got My Own Television Show, and It Wasn't No Desperate Housewives

13 Backstage Secrets and a Weddin' to Beat All

14 Blend. Don't Mix, Stir, or Beat

15 Food, Glorious Food, Southern Style

16 So You Want to Own a Restaurant?

17 Scenes from a Life: Growth, Cameron, Mr. Jimmy, Bubba, and Me

18 Southern Comfort: Things I've Learned

Index