Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894616 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .97" h x 7.70" w x 9.50" l, 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle, bestselling cookbook writer (LaBelle Cuisine) and Grammy-winning singer, has had to find ways to control her diet and make it healthier; this newest is the inspiring result. All 100 starters, entrees, sides and desserts are low on fat, sodium and sugar-but definitely high on flavor. Orange Roughy with Roasted Tomato and Olive Relish and Marvelous Minted Snap Peas are stylishly lean and contemporary, but LaBelle also cooks up old-fashioned Southern comfort food like Crunchy Cajun Catfish Nuggets, Down-Home Pork Chops in Guilt-Free Gravy and Chocolate Pecan Pie. All dishes include complete nutritional analyses, with diabetic exchanges and carbohydrate choices developed and approved by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association; they also come with "Patti's Pointers" (ideas on technique, equipment and ingredients), along with warm reminiscences of meals with family and friends. LaBelle is wonderful company for someone on a diet regime of any kind (as her friendly family photos further illustrate); she is creative, upbeat, knowledgeable and amusing.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
What sets off Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine from other celebrity cookbooks is its careful attention to recipes suitable for anyone living with diabetes. Working with coauthor Laura Randolph Lancaster, LaBelle has turned her own struggles with diabetes into a book full of help and inspirational advice for anyone burdened with the same affliction. To accomplish this, the book records dozens of recipes with reduced fats and sugars. Chicken is skinless and ground turkey stands in for ground beef as appropriate. Sugar substitutes make sweet desserts possible. Every recipe has a full nutritional analysis as well as a listing of diet exchanges for diabetics. Mark Knoblauch
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About the Author
Patti LaBelle has enjoyed a nearly four-decade-long career and has won multiple Grammy Awards and earned three Emmy nominations. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Don't Block the Blessings and LaBelle Cuisine. She currently serves as spokeswoman for the American Diabetes Association, the National Medical Association, the National Minority AIDS Council's "Live Long, Sugar" campaign, and the National Cancer Institute. She was recently awarded the Recording Academy's first MusiCares Award for her "deep-hearted commitment to many notable charities and causes."

Laura Randolph Lancaster is a journalist, attorney, and the co-author of Don't Block the Blessings and LaBelle Cuisine. Formerly the managing editor of Ebony, she was the magazine's White House correspondent and creator of its acclaimed "Sisterspeak" column.