Cooking Light Ushers In The Next Generation Of Healthy Home Cooking With Landmark New Cookbook, The New Way To Cook Light

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Combining 25 years of expertise in healthy cooking with a forward-looking view on food trends, Cooking Light Editor Scott Mowbray and team deliver a definitive guide for home cooks looking to craft delicious, wholesome meals. With clear guidance on making smart, nutritious and sustainable choices, plus a comprehensive collection of more than 400 essential recipes, The New Way To Cook Light is a must-have for anyone interested in eating well. 

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In The New Way To Cook Light (available October 16^th, Oxmoor House, $34.95), Cooking Light confirms that the desire to eat healthfully should not sideline anyone from participating in America's burgeoning food culture—you can maintain a nutrition-first mentality while enjoying soul-satisfying, deeply flavorful food.

The recipes in this book offers delectable dishes for every occasion, serving up guilt-free takes on everything from Cabernet Short Ribs with Parmesan Polenta and Spicy Malaysian-Style Stir-Fried Noodles to Mahi-Mahi with Bacon-Tomato Butter, Fresh Cherry Galette and Baklava.

"We wanted to give our readers the best route to rich, enticing, reliable food," said Mowbray. "This landmark title is a step forward, representing the new way to cook light and outlining the tools to extract maximum flavor from every food you enjoy - helping you to cook, eat and feel better."

This book is a kitchen staple, guiding modern home cooks through the joys of healthy eating, with an expansive collection of tips, tools, techniques and recipes highlighting ingredients that are fresh, local, organic, artisanal, and global. It dispenses the old-school nutrient obsessions and embraces common-sense ideas and tactics with a focus on quality and authenticity that everyone can achieve.

The New Way To Cook Light, will be available in a beautiful hardcover edition, and eBook format for tablets.

Features include:

• 9 Simple Principles of The New Way To Cook Light, which convey the essence of Cooking Light's entire food philosophy in succinct principles, like: embrace the new variety, favor the healthy fats, buy the best ingredients you can afford, and more.
• Over 400 mouth-watering recipes that cover a wide spectrum of flavors, foods, and international cuisines for both the weekend cook who has some time to spend in the kitchen as well as the busy weeknight cook who needs to get a healthy dinner on the table fast. Dishes range from decadent Waldorf Salad with Steel-Cut Oats, crunchy Crab Cakes with Spicy Remoulade and Easy Coq au Vin to Roasted Vegetable and Ricotta Pizza, Soy-Citrus Scallops with Soba Noodles and many, many more!
• Over 200 beautiful, full-color photographs bring Cooking Light's recipes, techniques and ingredients to life.
• Fantastic sidebars include information about "Flavor Boosters," "Choice Ingredients," "Global Flavors" and "Nutrition Made Easy."

About Cooking Light  
At 25 years, Cooking Light is the nation's leading epicurean magazine brand with the largest audience and most epicurean editorial.  Cooking Light is the only epicurean brand positioned at the intersection of great-tasting food and healthfulness, serving an important and growing consumer need.  The brand delivers innovative recipes, nutrition advice, and resources to live a healthful lifestyle via its magazine, Web site, and portfolio of cookbooks; across all tablets; through the highly-acclaimed Cooking Light Quick and Healthy Menu Maker app; and on social media platforms including, Facebook (Facebook.com/CookingLight), Twitter (@Cooking_Light), Pinterest (Pinterest.com/CookingLight) and Instagram.  Cooking Light is part of the Time Inc. Lifestyle Group, a division of Time Inc., the largest magazine media company in the U.S.

About Oxmoor House   
Oxmoor House is an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc., a Time Inc. company, and publishes books and special edition magazines for Time Inc. brands such as Southern Living, Cooking Light, Health, and Sunset. Oxmoor House's publishing partnerships include Weight-Watchers, Gooseberry Patch, and Weber.  With more than 300 back-listed titles, it is recognized as one of the leading lifestyle publishers in the country. Oxmoor House books are distributed to the trade by Hachette Book Group and are available wherever books are sold. More information is available at oxmoorhouse.com.

Contact:
Sheena Eustice
212-382-4454 
[email protected]

SOURCE Cooking Light

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