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Just in time for 2009 and after a season filled with high-caloric
holiday meals comes a sixth volume in cookbook author Susie
Fishbein's Kosher by Design series. Kosher by Design Lightens Up
(Mesorah Publications; $35.99) is filled with health-conscious reci-
pes and insightful ideas for becoming a wiser eater and consumer.
Fishbein introduces more than 145 new recipes — from appetizers,
soups and salads to poultry, meat, fish and dairy to side dishes and
desserts — as well as techniques designed to promote healthier eat-
ing choices and innovative entertaining ideas like tasting parties, a
spritzer bar and more.
In addition to delectable recipes, each accompanied by a gor-
geous, full-color photograph, the book aims to educate readers
in areas of supermarket shopping (knowing what to look for and
what to avoid), superfoods (disease-fighting powerhouse foods) and

the difference between various flours, grains, sugars and oils. Each
recipe contains special commentary by certified nutritional expert
Bonnie Taub-Dix, national spokesperson for the American Dietetic
Association.
"I always said that steamed kale and wheat germ don't make
good partners in recipe writing. Well, I'm happily eating my words,"
writes Fishbein. "This is the book my readers have been demanding,
and this is the journey I needed to take for myself" Lightens Up is
not a diet cookbook, she says, but rather a tool to become "a more
knowledgeable eater. Knowing the virtues of various foods will lead
you to use them in new and exciting ways."
Here are just a few of the recipes featured in Lightens Up, all
nutritious choices, Fishbein says, "that are easy to integrate into your
everyday menus."