Author-chef found going kosher was easy (South beach diet recipes)
Laura Frankel decided to keep a kosher kitchen about 13 years ago. Frankel, chef and co-owner of Shallots Bistro in Skokie, Ill., is the author of Jewish Cooking for All Seasons: Fresh, Flavorful Kosher Recipes for Holidays and Every Day (Wiley, $34.95). She writes about what happened when she and her husband decided to enroll their son in a Jewish preschool.
"Hello, this is the late Patti LaBelle ..." Thankfully, it's nothing serious. LaBelle, 62, is just running a little late on a call from home town Philadelphia, though health issues are always on her mind. For instance, after her diabetes was diagnosed in 1994, LaBelle became a spokeswoman for the American Diabetes Association and published two cookbooks, "LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About"
Slightly adjust a recipe by cutting salt and sugar, and you're on your way to eating healthier. The Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource's November issue offered these ideas for simple ways to achieve healthier recipes:
The cover photo of the "Simply Florida" cookbook depicts a lush picnic spread with a sampling of fruits and vegetables, foods representative of culinary fare native to the Sunshine State.
While watching TV reports of crazed people storming into department stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving to start Christmas shopping, I noticed none of them looked like hunters, anglers, campers, birdwatchers and other sensible folks.
"Hello, this is the late Patti LaBelle ..." Thankfully, it's nothing serious. LaBelle, 62, is just running a little late on a call from home town Philadelphia, though health issues are always on her mind. For instance, after her diabetes was diagnosed in 1994, LaBelle became a spokeswoman for the American Diabetes Association and published two cookbooks, "LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About"
Slightly adjust a recipe by cutting salt and sugar, and you're on your way to eating healthier. The Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource's November issue offered these ideas for simple ways to achieve healthier recipes:
The cover photo of the "Simply Florida" cookbook depicts a lush picnic spread with a sampling of fruits and vegetables, foods representative of culinary fare native to the Sunshine State.
While watching TV reports of crazed people storming into department stores before dawn the day after Thanksgiving to start Christmas shopping, I noticed none of them looked like hunters, anglers, campers, birdwatchers and other sensible folks.
