Rose Reisman’s Family Favourites
Healthy Meals for those Who Matter Most
Author: Rose Reisman
“No more frozen dinners or fast food – a healthy lifestyle begins at home”, shouts out the cover flap.
What Toronto’s own wellness guru Rose Reisman has done in her brilliant 18th cookbook is to create more than 270 recipes for quick and nutritious meals that are perfect for your whole family. And, if you’re a grandparent needing help with what to cook for your grandchildren, there’s an entire section on Children’s Favourites – but you’ll love them too.
The recipes are, indeed, fabulous. Good food, good ingredients, and each dish is a healthier but as-enjoyable alternative to some of the unhealthy comfort foods to which we often gravitate. You won’t find a deep-fried ingredient here!
But rather than preaching, Rose Reisman shows you how to take charge of your family’s health, and everyone’s well-being in a way that’s easy to understand, and in a way that inspires you to do more for your family’s health. Rose has taken into account hectic family schedules, gives plenty of healthier eating tips, and focuses on great healthy meals that the family can enjoy as one. This is real-life, no-nonsense advice about how to eat well, and practical guidance on creating realistic meal plans.
The photography is stunning, but there aren’t enough pictures for my liking – I’m a picture-for-each-dish kinda gal. One of the real bonuses though – the high value extra – is the concise nutrional analysis that goes along with each recipe. So, if you’re controlling portions, or counting calories, carbs, fibre or fats, Rose has made it stunningly easy for you. Add to that the estimated prep and bake times, make-ahead tips and a nutrition watch comment with each dish, and this is destined to become a kitchen ‘bible’ for family cooking and entertaining.
Whitecap publishers
393 pages
Available throughout Canada
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years in the making, Barbara Hannah Grufferman created this go-to reference – published in April 2010 – based on her desire to access the best of everything in her fifties so that she could remain as stylish, healthy and happy as she had always been. She had a mission to share with other women who had passed the half-century mark the best expert advice that New York’s doctors, personal trainers, stylists, fashion gurus and financial planners had to offer . Before, she had been a successful magazine publisher, named by Advertising Age as “Publishing Star on the Rise”. This is her first book.
“When I reached 51, this project started off being all about me,” said Barbara in a recent interview. “I spent my time collecting information from experts, curated the best of it and then distilled it into “The Best of Everything After 50, for others to enjoy. My greatest hope from this is that my readers will get themselves ready in terms of health and their physical beings, shed a lot of ‘stuff’, and be ready for the next chapter in their lives.”
What’s the Toronto connection? Barbara Grufferman’s book parallels the mission for Tempo Toronto. Exactly. Toronto’s over-50s have the same needs as those in New York. As well, Toronto’s Julia Moulden, author of “We Are The New Radicals: A Manifesto for Reinventing Yourself and Saving the World” and creator of The New Radicals movement, helped out. She provided excellent content for Barbara’s “What’s Next?” section under “The New Radical Path”.
“We were simpatico”, said Julia. “It was clear that we are speaking to the same kind of people – those eager to make some kind of contribution. We know that it’s not ‘over’ for over-fifties, but we are a generation that tended to overspend and under-save, which means we’ll probably have to work longer. We all need to be ready for that.”
Barbara’s book is a 255-page paperback. With 15 sections, it’s tough to go into great depth for any topic. But for sure each part helps set you on the right path, and doesn’t waste time in getting to the point. That’s one of the beauties of the book: no wasted words. It’s all about practical tips for style, make-up, sex, health, finance, and myriad other topics, and as it’s written by and for women over 50, it all makes sense. You can relate to it, it’s an easy read. The entire tome is full of guidance from experts such as Diane von Furstenberg, Laura Geller, Patricia Wexler …
This book is worth picking up – only $20 in Canada. Published by Running Press
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