Down-Home Wholesome : 300 Low-Fat Recipes from a New Soul Kitchen Book

Down-Home Wholesome's "New Soul" cooking brings a delectably healthy change to America's very first comfort food. The innovative new cookbook trims the extra fat, sugar, and salt from classic soul dishes - without sacrificing a bit of taste. Using high-flavor, low-fat ingredients like smoked turkey, sweet potatoes, leafy greens, and buttermilk, and vibrant flavoring like sizzling pepper bases, lemon peel, fresh herbs, and spices from around the world, author Danella Carter highlights the simple pleasures of new-style down-home cooking.

The transition to this all-American lightened cuisine is made painlessly, with dazzling dishes for every course, like Sweet Potato Waffles with Rasberry Butter, Onion Pie with a Mess o'Greens, Roasted Quail with Oyster Bread Pudding, Lemon-Garlic Grits, Cowpea Chow Chow, Lemon-Pepper Biscuits, Strawberry Limeade, and Coconut Pie.

Every recipe includes a complete nutritional analysis, but Carter cooks with both health and taste in mind. Chapters highlighting unique regional cuisines of the American South, as well as a special section of recipes for traditional herbal bath and body mixtures, enrich this spirited collection. Woven throughout the book are the author's reminiscinces of three generations of idiosyncratic family cooks.

This first health-conscious soul-food cookbook proves that soul cookery can be flavorful and exciting without an overload of fat and cholesterol. Free of red meat and pork, Down-Home Wholesome offers recipes for over 300 appealing dishes, plus Carter's reminiscences of three generations of family cooks.