For healthy meals that virtually cook themselves, get out your slow cooker. Chop up some fresh ingredients, simmer them for 3-8 hours while their flavors blend and intensify, and voila, dinner's ready, and you didn't even need to be there while it cooked! Start with the basic "rules" of crockery cooking--general tips on how to prepare meats and poultry, vegetables, pasta and rice, dried beans, cheese, and fish. Then take your time with 101 delicious and health-conscious, mouth-watering recipes that fit perfectly into today's busy schedules and desire for low-fat, low-cholesterol meals. Every one contains helpful nutritional information including calorie, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and dietary fiber content. 144 pages, 6 x 9.

"Chefs are around delicious, tempting food all day. So how do they manage to look good while eating so well? When People magazine editor Allison Adato found covering the restaurant world was taking a toll on her own waistline, she turned to top chefs for their secrets. This book is full of real-world tips, delicious recipes, and an insider's access to behind-the-scenes healthy habits provided by such notable chefs as Eric Ripert, Tom Colicchio, Michelle Bernstein, Rick Bayless, and Cat Cora"--Provided by publisher

Whether you are an experienced home chef or just embarking on your culinary journey, this book is designed to empower you with knowledge. From deciphering food labels to understanding the impact of different cooking methods on nutritional content, "Cook Smart: Live Well" is a guide that fosters confidence in the kitchen, making every cooking endeavor a step towards a healthier you. In the rich tapestry of human existence, food is not merely sustenance; it is a conduit for connection. "Cook Smart: Live Well" recognizes the social and communal aspects of food, offering insights into preparing meals that nourish not only your body but also the bonds that tie families and communities together. It is an invitation to celebrate the joy of sharing wholesome, delicious food with loved ones. Our world is a mosaic of dietary preferences and requirements. "Cook Smart: Live Well" acknowledges and celebrates this diversity, offering guidance that can be adapted to various dietary philosophies. Whether you follow a plant-based diet, have specific nutritional needs, or simply seek balance in your meals, this book provides a compass for creating a kitchen that accommodates diverse tastes and lifestyles.

The perfect COOKBOOK companion for Newlyweds, empty nesters or small households! Love to cook but don’t love the leftovers? Whether you’re a newlywed or moving out on your own for the first time; an empty nester or simply cooking for a small household, Taste of Home Cooking for Two helps you whip up mouthwatering meals in just the right quantities. All of the 141 dishes in this sensational collection are just right for one or two diners. From snacks and appetizers to entrees and desserts, the perfect dish is always at hand. Best of all, each recipe includes a complete set of Nutrition Facts, prep-and-cook timelines and step-by-step directions. With full-color photographs, heart-smart dinners, 30-minute dishes, 5-ingredient recipes and more, Cooking for Two is your guide to quick-and-easy dishes sized right for a pair. CHAPTERS Breakfast for Two Appetizers for Two Soups, Stews & Chili for Two Sandwiches & Wraps for Two Sides, Salads & Breads for Two Beef & Ground Beef for Two Chicken & Turkey for Two Pork, Ham & Sausage for Two Fish & Seafood for Two Meatless Choices for Two Desserts for Two

Many of us are choosing to reduce or completely remove meat from our diet and this book offers 200 simple yet mouthwatering recipes that make vegetarian eating a truly delicious choice. Tasty and inspiring flavour combinations make for memorable meals, such Caramelized Apple, Blue Cheese & Walnut Salad, Beetroot & Horseradish Soup and Sweet Potato Curry with Lemongrass & Coconut. And why not indulge your sweet tooth with the great ideas for baking and desserts, including Hazelnut Meringue Gâteau, Plum & Frangipane Tart or Melon, Ginger & Lime Sorbet?

Save time, eat right and serve hearty family favorites with Skinny Slow Cooker, a new cookbook from Taste of Home! Everyone could use a little help when it comes to cutting calories, fat and sodium, so why not rely on your slow cooker as well as the experts at Taste of Home? This mouthwatering collection makes it a snap to dish out comforting slow-cooked dishes so tasty, no one at your table will realize they’re eating light. Best of all, these satisfying recipes simmer on their own during the day, so a sensational, healthy meal is ready for you when you walk through door! What could be easier? Cook smart, eat smart, lose weight and feel great! Success is at your fingertips with Taste of Home Skinny Slow Cooker. Now it’s easier than ever to cook smart and eat smart thanks to the new title from Taste of Home—Skinny Slow Cooker! Today’s home cooks care about serving healthy meals but struggle to find time to prepare foods that satisfy yet pare down calories, fat and sodium. With the 350+ recipes in Skinny Slow Cooker, however, setting a heart-smart meal on the table is a snap! With a little planning, a few everyday ingredients and a slow cooker, family cooks can easily create meals so hearty, no one will realize they are eating light! Based on the tremendous success Taste of Home Books experienced with best-selling titles “Slow Cooker,” “Slow Cooker Throughout the Year,” Casseroles, Slow Cooker & Soups,” “Comfort Food Diet” and “Comfort Food Makeovers,” it seemed like a natural fit to offer today’s family cooks a collection of slow-cooked dishes that make healthy eating a priority. Inside this collection, readers will find common ingredients, Nutrition Facts with every recipe, Diabetic Exchanges where applicable and, most important, mouthwatering meals that come together in a slow cooker and satisfy the entire family! A special icon notes dishes that call for five ingredients or fewer and prep and cook timelines make meal planning simple. Two “Bonus Chapters” help family cooks round out menus with garden-fresh salads and light desserts that skim back on calories, sugar and fat. Best of all, these recipes come from real home cooks who know how to serve healthy family meals and save time in the kitchen. These are the dishes they rely on most…and the foods that received thumbs-up approval at the dinner table. Cooking smart, eating smart, losing weight and feeling great has never been more delicious than with Taste of Home Skinny Slow Cooker! CHAPTERS Lighten Up (Intro) Soups & Sandwiches Beefy Entrees Chicken & Turkey Pork, Ham & More Seafood & Meatless Classics Slow-Cooked Sides Bonus: Salads Bonus: Low-Fat Desserts

This book examines theoretical and practical aspects of emerging technologies in e-service and artificial intelligence from an academic and professional viewpoint. To do so, it focuses on three major areas: the development of novel user support systems; development of smart mobility; and emerging technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With regard to the development of novel user support systems, Chapter 1 introduces alternative ingredients recommendation using data on co-occurrence relation and ingredients categories to support cooking, while Chapter 2 introduces a study on location information inference using data acquired by low-energy Bluetooth devices. Turning to the development of smart mobility, Chapter 3 highlights a sustainable information infrastructure project for smart mobility systems. In addition, Chapter 4 presents a lifecycle-oriented development process to improve requirements and design in terms of uncertainties to provide sustainable information architectures for smart mobility. In the book’s third and last part – emerging technologies in AI – Chapter 5 presents a summarization task for sports events on Twitter, focusing on an abstractive approach based on sub-events during the sports event. Chapter 6 discusses the generation of headlines using a recurrent neural network based on a machine translation approach. Lastly, Chapter 7 explores customer behavior analysis using enthusiasm analysis, an approach that estimates customers’ activation levels. The book gathers a selection of the highest-quality papers presented at the 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, held on July 12–16, 2015 in Okayama, Japan. Given the breadth of its coverage, it offers a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and students alike.