The GetHealthyHarlem.org staff sifted through a few cookbooks to find some that promoted interesting recipes for healthy eating. Here are some examples of what we found...
| | Neo Soul: Taking Food to Whole 'nutha Level By: Lindsey Williams, Sylvia Woods, Sylvia Woods (Foreword by), Pub. Date: January 2006 $22.00 Lindsey Williams, grandson of Harlem Soul Food Restaurateur, Sylvia Woods, loves the soul food he grew up eating, but wants to make it a little healthier. Lindsey begins Neo-Soul by talking about his struggle with being obese throughout most of his young adult life. Because of his journey towards becoming healthier, Williams offers a lot of exercise and diet tips throughout the book. While it does not have pictures of the recipes, each dish includes nutritional information (calorie count, sodium etc.) and advises which dishes may not be the best for people with high blood pressure. |
The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa By: Marcus Samuelsson, Heidi Sacko Walters, Gediyon Kifle (Photographer) $35.00 Born in Ethiopia, but raised in Sweden, Marcus Samuelsson has become one of the leading chefs in New York City today. This book follows Samuelsson on his journey back to Africa, sampling all the different foods from across the Continent. This book has few pictures of the recipes, but many pictures of people and spices. Samuelsson's recipes include how to make the staple rubs and sauces for many African dishes. Most ingredients used in the recipes are easy to find in your local market, with a few exceptions. Some dishes take a few hours to cook, and not all are healthy (some are fried). The book contains over 200 recipes. | |
New Mayo Clinic Cookbook By: Mayo Clinic Editors, Maureen Callahan, Jennifer Nelson, Cheryl Forberg, She Giblin January 2006 $25.00 This cookbook from the Mayo Clinic has a host of healthy but tasty-looking dishes. The book is very well organized and includes a breakdown of the food pyramid and gives tips on how easy it can be to get your daily servings. The Mayo Clinic cookbook includes a grocery shopping guide and even a quiz to see if you are eating healthfully. This cookbook includes pictures of each recipe and uses easy-to-find ingredients (with explanations of several ingredients in the back of the book). While each dish has a breakdown of the nutritional information, the symbols used to show how many servings of each level of the food pyramid are a little hard to understand. | |
Vegetables for Vitality: Delicious Recipes to Add Vegetables to Every Meal Reader's Digest May 2004 $30.00 Don't let the title of this book fool you. This is not a vegetarian cookbook. While the focus of this cookbook is adding vegetables to your daily meals with some salads and vegetarian recipes, there are numerous meat dishes. Vegetables for Vitality includes a chart of various vitamins and minerals showing how each might be good for your health in disease prevention or disease care. The cookbook also includes basic information about various spices, seasonings and world foods. Photos accompany each recipe as well as nutritional information. A great feature of this book is that it also provides a guide to vegetables - giving tips on how to buy, keep and prepare them. | |
Eat to Beat High Blood Pressure: The Tasty Soup to Nuts Diet that Lowers Blood Pressure in Two Weeks By Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest, Jamy D. Ard (Editor) $16.00 This guide to a two-week healthy eating plan includes tips on how to reduce or take out salt from your diet as well as tips on how to lose weight. Food substitutes and information about high blood pressure are also covered. Most ingredients in the book's recipes are easy-to-find at your local grocer. |
This article about health and wellness was written by HHPC and reviewed by our Health Advisory Board.
