Hand on Heart: A Perfectly Ordinary Cookbook - Softcover

Harlan, Timothy S.; Forster, Ian; Danks, Vince

9780954324780: Hand on Heart: A Perfectly Ordinary Cookbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954324781 ISBN 13: 9780954324780

Publisher: ENDpapers, 2004

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From the Author:

Hand on Heart: A Perfectly Ordinary Cookbook is about the foods that you can eat.

Eating healthy is about eating great food and Hand on Heart has dozens of delicious recipes that are familiar to you like Caesar Salad, Fettuccine Alfredo, Fried Chicken and pizza. There are also recipes that you should know of such as London Broil with Mushrooms Sauteed in Cognac, Seared Tuna with Sake Wasabi Sauce and Thai Coconut Shrimp. Easy to follow recipes are coupled with nutrition information in a format that makes it simple to transform your diet.

Hand on Heart is the happy medium. It was written to help you eat healthy and eat great food. It is based on the premise that there are no bad foods and that you can be healthy without having to eat aduki beans and drink wheat grass juice.

The key is balance. No single change – whether it is it low carb, reduced fat, high protein, low salt, etc. – will be satisfying for the long haul. Balance will. By exploring a variety of foods and learning techniques to maximize flavors and textures while reducing calories, fat and salt you can eat healthy and wonderful food.

The recipes in Hand on Heart have been chosen to illustrate these techniques, equipment and ingredients placing them in the context of the current medical research about how what we eat effects our health. At the front of the book are ideas for creating a new pantry as well as equipment that will make cooking healthier recipes perfectly ordinary.

About the Author:

Dr. Tim's love of food preparation began as a teenager working in the restaurant business. Starting as a dishwasher, he worked his way up to managing his first restaurant by the age of eighteen. Along the way he learned cooking from many fine chefs, and at age twenty-two opened his own restaurant -- a small French bistro.

Three years operating Le Petit Caf� -- creating menus, being a chef and teaching cooking classes -- were challenging and creative. Closing the restaurant to return to school was an important turning point. Dr. Harlan originally intended to pursue a degree in hotel and restaurant management but an illness in a close friend led him toward medicine and the decision to become a physician.

After finishing an undergraduate degree in anthropology and biology at Emory University he went on to study at Emory University School of Medicine. Working as a caterer throughout school he continued to be involved with food and cooking but noticed a lack of knowledge about eating healthy and eating well. Neither patients nor health care providers understood much about a healthy diet. Patients, it seemed, were told not what they could eat but what they could not eat.

During medical school, Dr. Harlan wrote the book It's Heartly Fare, a food manual for patients with heart disease. It is published by Pritchett & Hull Associates.

Dr. Gourmet is the natural outgrowth of an interest in the intersection of good food and good health: "Eating well and eating healthy are the same thing," he says.

Dr. Tim now practices internal medicine in Virginia and can be seen on the television program AskDIY on the DIY network as well as a consultant on the Food TV program Cooking Thin.

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