ENOLA PRUDHOMME'S LOW-CALORIE CAJUN COOKING

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ENOLA PRUDHOMME'S LOW-CALORIE CAJUN COOKING

Name: ENOLA PRUDHOMME'S LOW-CALORIE CAJUN COOKING
Author: Enola Prudhomme
ISBN: 0-688-09255-1

by Enola Prudhomme ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 19, 1991

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Low-fat collage cheese in Cajun dishes is certainly a novelty; and that, besides the family name, is mainly what this Louisiana restaurant owner, sister of the famous Paul, and contributor to The Prudhomme family cookbook (1987) has going for her here. The Cajun accent survives (witness the catfish au gratin and shrimp Çtouffee, even pork in wine sauce) but health- style substitutes abound (in blackened chicken breast, turkey sausage) and serious fat-reducing measures are taken: Enola's roux is browned flour, nothing more, and her southern-style ``oven-fried'' chicken is stripped of skin and fat, breaded without eggs, and never fried. The worst of both worlds meet in her candied-yam recipe, which calls for brown sugar substitute, imitation butter flavoring, instant vanilla, and ten miniature marshmallows. Other tacky ingredients such as canned cream-of- mushroom soup turn up here and there, adding to the mongrel air.

Pub Date: April 19, 1991

ISBN: 0-688-09255-1

Page Count: 224

Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1991

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.