Betty Crocker's New American Cooking

$6.99

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"More than 350 Recipes Based on Today's Interest in Wholesome Cooking and Moderate Use of Salt, Sugar and Fat, Highlighting Important Nutrient and Calorie Content. There's a new American way of living today...and there's a new American style of cooking to match. Americans care about physical fitness and good nutrition now as never before. We are conscious of calories and seek a well-balanced diet of lighter meals and more healthful snacks. We eat less red meat and more poultry and fish, more fresh vegetables and fruits, more whole grain cereals and flour. We are turning to cooking methods requiring less fat, such as poaching, steaming, baking and stir-frying. We are using less salt and more lemon, garlic, onions, spices and herbs. Our population is more diversified than ever before, and so we borrow from our rich ethnic heritage the pasta of Italy, the lively seasonings of Mexico and the crisp-tender texture of food from the Orient. And we are regularly experimenting with once unfamiliar, exotic ingredients now found in most markets. Above all, both men and women are finding new interest in the kitchen, not only to enjoy fine restaurant-quality food at home but also to cook creatively for the pure pleasure of it. New American cooking is more than a way of eating; it is fast becoming a national pastime. And cooking schools, cookbooks and new kinds of kitchen equipment all contribute to this enthusiasm for delicious and healthful food. For these reasons, Betty Crocker's New American Cooking is more than a collection of 350 new and inspired recipes. It is also a common-sense guide to good nutrition. Each recipe is tagged with its calorie count per serving, and good sources of important nutrients are identified for many recipes. At the close of each chapter, you'll find a comprehensive chart of the computer-calculated nutrients in every recipe. And to interpret and focus all this information, we've assembled an introductory guide to what is best in nutrition trends today. So turn the page, read, cook, eat—and enjoy all the pleasures of Betty Crocker's New American Cooking. Copyright © 1983 by General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Manufactured in the United States of America."