March 2, 2009, Newtown, CT – Fine Cooking Presents Eat Smart with Ellie Krieger, a treasure trove of good-for-you meals that prove eating healthy doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor. Packed with 75 delicious recipes, many excerpted from her NewYork Times bestseller, The Food You Crave, and some created for this special issue, Eat Smart shows you how to whip up healthy, tasty meals in no time by simply stocking your pantry the Ellie Krieger way.

“While I believe that filling your kitchen with beautiful, fresh ingredients is the foundation of great meals, I am also a realist,” says Ellie. “As a working mom, I don’t always have the time (or energy!) to stop at the farmer’s market or the grocery store to pick up the fixings for a meal. That’s why I use my pantry and my freezer as a starting point for a bounty of recipes.”

Using Ellie’s New Way Pantry List (page 12) as a guide, readers will be surprised how easy it is have nutritious and delicious meals at your finger tips. Every recipe featured in the issue counts on only three or fewer market-fresh items like chicken breasts, salad greens, or other ingredients you might not have on hand. Many, in fact, like the Pork Medallions with Cherry Sauce (page 62) and the Miso-Glazed Cod (page 77) require only one ingredient and many others rely completely on your pantry cache, like the luscious and creamy Green Pea Soup (page 23) or crunchy granola (page 24) that makes the perfect breakfast layered with nonfat yogurt.

In Buy Smart, Stock Smart, Store Smart (page 14), Ellie offers some great tips on how to shop organic, the best canned and frozen alternatives, and how to keep your essentials at their best.

Every recipe is brimming with important vitamins and minerals. To help you identify sources of nutrients you may be trying to focus on, Ellie lists good and excellent sources of nutrients in each recipe and includes a Smart Nutrients glossary (page 120) to help you better understand how each nutrient benefits the body.

Most important, all the recipes are delicious. As Ellie says, “To get people to eat well, don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.” One only has to try Ellie’s Blueberry Coffee Cake (page 31), Garlic Fries (page 97), Macaroni and Four Cheeses (page 82) or Banana Cream Pie (page 116) to be a believer.

Ellie Krieger joined the Fine Cooking family as contributing editor in 2009 and debuted her new column The Good Life in the February/March issue. For more recipes, tips and techniques, visit us at www.finecooking.com.

For more information or to schedule an interview with Ellie Krieger, please contact Pamela Duevel at 203-304-3773, tauntonbookspr@taunton.com.