The Golden Door Cookbook | 
|  | | | Title: | The Golden Door Cookbook | | Author: | Michel Stroot | | Publisher: | Broadway | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 01 September, 1997 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553061860 / 9780553061864 | | List Price: | $35.00 | | You Save: | $2.99 | | Amazon Price: | $32.01 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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What makes the Golden Door spa so unique, so legendary, and so magical? Why is it consistently ranked the top health spa in the country? Why do guests return year after year?
Set against the lush landscape of southern California, the Golden Door is famous for its dedication to lavish individual service and a top-level fitness program. And, three times a day, after sunrise mountain hikes, water aerobics classes, tai chi instruction, and hour-long massages, guests are treated to the high-flavor, low-fat cuisine created by Michel Stroot, the spa's executive chef since 1974. A pioneer in the field of healthful cooking, Belgian-born Stroot brings classic French techniques and a European sensibility to America's freshest foods. His contemporary, health-conscious food changes the way many of the Door's guests eat forever.
Now, home cooks everywhere can learn the secrets of Stroot's remarkable cuisine with the two hundred recipes in The Golden Door Cookbook. The recipes include light and healthful dishes for every course--hot and cold soups, crisp salads made with vegetable greens and grains, fresh fruit compotes, creative chicken and fish dishes, hearty breads, and refreshing, energy-boosting beverages. Every recipe includes a complete nutritional analysis, and each one derives less than 20 percent of its calories from fat. Baked Apples with Kashi and Raisins. Vegetarian Won Tons with Plum Sauce. Chilled Melon Soup with Mint. Crunchy Chicken Salad with Apples and Bulgur. Focaccia Sandwich with Grilled Vegetables Provençal. Wild Rice Pilaf with Pineapple and Ginger. Grilled Swordfish with Papaya-Kiwi Salsa. Black Bean-Chicken Enchi-ladas with California Chili Sauce. Blueberry Bran Muffins. Mango-Banana Sorbet. Apple-Lime Tofu Cheesecake. Illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning full-color photographs, The Golden Door Cookbook is the next best thing to a week at the spa itself.
Bring the spa experience home with this collection of vibrant, low-fat recipes from the chef at the Golden Door spa.
Amazon.com Review
From a cookbook, you expect recipes: The Golden Door Cookbook provides 200 of them, all low-fat, plus much more. This book radiates the revitalizing care and spirituality which makes this spa nirvana for its guests. While reading it, you feel the nurturing power of food that is truly pleasurable for body and soul. Proving that low-calorie spa food can be "interesting, healthful cooking," recipes which take you through the day include a whole-grain-filled baked apple for breakfast, a sybaritic Fruit Club Sandwich or cheese-rich Twice Baked Potato for lunch, and 7-Spice Bean Soup plus Whole Wheat Primavera or lavish Sultan's Curry for dinner. Beside fruit desserts, you can enjoy moist brownies and sumptuous cheesecake. There are also poultry and fish dishes. Chef Stroot acknowledges that some recipes require many ingredients. You will see they are all readily available items--fresh fruits and vegetables, familiar herbs and spices--and that most of the preparations are easy. The combining of many flavors and Stroot's creativity make this a cookbook of unique culinary genius. --Dana Jacobi
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• The Recipes Allow One To Truly Recreate The Spa Experience. 08 November, 1999
I was a guest for one week at The Golden Door in Escondido, CA the week of September 7, 1997. The experience was one of a lifetime. The most memorable experiences were the meals. And no, we are not talking all nuts, grains, oats, and greens! Although I am vegatarian, there was chicken, salmon, and other meat served to non-vegetarians. I remeber thinking, "If I can get food like this at home, who needs to go to a spa?" A "conscious cooking" lesson in Michel Stroot's kitchen at the spa was one of the featured events that Wednesday September 10. The cooking was surprisingly simple, yet the results elegant and delicious. The basic concepts of healthy cooking were emphasized - and fortified with a cooking demonstration. Dahl and an apple pie were made while the audience watched - from start to finish - under an hour. And yes, we ate the proceeds. Oh, and there were invaluable tips on making stocks - the real secret to adding flavor without the "bad stuff". The audience observed the Golden Door trademark vegetable broth being made (we lined up for this deliciou concotion like lemmings every day at 10:50 AM). I for one was shocked at how easy it was to please so many with such little effort. I couldn't wait to get home and try out what I had learned. Fortunately for me, the recipe book came out soon after my stay at the spa. I can honestly say that the recipes are quite easy to follow. The ingredients required are obtained with relative ease. Most importantly, the results are EXACTLY like being at the spa! That life-changing week in September 1997 now lives on every day of my life. I highly recommend this book for the simple, elegant, healthful, and delicious recipes contained in it. Vegan and vegetarian recipes are included. (I had my first vegetarian hamburger at the spa - and had to ask the staff to make sure I had not received a burger made with some sort of meat by mistake! )
- Reviewed by customer ID: A215Q7L61OENQ5
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