Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine by Patti LaBelle

LaBelle Cuisine is feel-good food, sit-down-at-the-table, kick-off-your-shoes and stay-a-while food.' 'I mean food that soothes the soul, food that nurtures the spirit as much as it nourishes the stomach. 'By that, I don't mean greens and grits and gravy, although they're in there, too,' she says. She describes LaBelle Cuisine as soul food. To accommodate her culinary bent, LaBelle stays mostly in hotels with kitchenettes. 'It's really a labor of love because, after I perform, cooking is the only way I can come down from the high I'm on,' she says. I've been taking my pans on the road with me for as long as I can remember, ever since the day I ordered some eggs from room service that tasted like wet cardboard and that cost me 25 bucks.'Ĭooking on the road isn't just to avoid bland, overpriced food. 'If you look in my suitcase, you'll see at least three of them right next to my gowns. 'Not only do I take my pans out on the road with me, (but) they're the first thing I pack,' she says.

She got so good, she couldn't stand bad food, and bad food is what made her start cooking for herself on tour. She hated playing outside with other kids, so she stayed in the kitchen and soaked up secrets. 'To my ancestors, cooking was an art, not a chore, and just the smell of their meals was enough to make you start speaking in tongues!'īelieve it or not, LaBelle was a shy child. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.'Every single one of them could cook like Picasso could paint, and that's no exaggeration,' LaBelle says. LaBelle is wonderful company for someone on a diet regime of any kind (as her friendly family photos further illustrate) she is creative, upbeat, knowledgeable and amusing.Ĭopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. All dishes include complete nutritional analyses, with diabetic exchanges and carbohydrate choices developed and approved by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association they also come with 'Patti's Pointers' (ideas on technique, equipment and ingredients), along with warm reminiscences of meals with family and friends. Orange Roughy with Roasted Tomato and Olive Relish and Marvelous Minted Snap Peas are stylishly lean and contemporary, but LaBelle also cooks up old-fashioned Southern comfort food like Crunchy Cajun Catfish Nuggets, Down-Home Pork Chops in Guilt-Free Gravy and Chocolate Pecan Pie.

All 100 starters, entrees, sides and desserts are low on fat, sodium and sugar-but definitely high on flavor.

Diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle, bestselling cookbook writer (LaBelle Cuisine) and Grammy-winning singer, has had to find ways to control her diet and make it healthier this newest is the inspiring result.

Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine by Patti LaBelle