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Padma Lakshmi - Easy Exotic : A Model's Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World

Description: ISBN 0786864591 / Genre: Food & Drink / Dieting / Easy-to-make, healthy recipes from around the world.

Newest Review: ... delights. Another lovely addition to the book are the short passages at the beginning of each section and interspersed ... more

... throughout in which the author recalls her time living in Spain, Italy, India, &c. The one leading the section on French dishes begins: 'Each of us has a charmed part of our lives we remember with nostalgia as a carefree and idealistic time. For me it is when I was in Paris that cold winter of my first year as a model....' and concludes, 'There were all sorts of discoveries, small and large, that I made on a weekly basis. Soon I began to know my way around Paris and my way around modelling as well. I can hear...more

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Padma Lakshmi - Easy Exotic : A Model's Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World: EXOTIC DELIGHTS - Spicy Indian Model Cooks in Her Lingerie (765 words)
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EASY EXOTIC contains recipes for both meat and vegetarian dishes from a variety of cultures--Spain, France, Italy, India, East Asia, Morocco (as well as a separate dessert section)--which are easy to prepare and wonderful to eat. It is not a 'diet' cookery-book, but rather simply a healthy one. As the author states: '[n]o-one ever sticks to diets, because the often take away the pleasure of flavour...[These recipes are] "happy medium" food...it is not gravely fattening because it avoids things like cream and butter. What I will not do is eat food that does not taste good'. The book does provide a listing of the amount of calories, ... Read the complete review