Low Calorie Healthy Cooking is a collection of the author’s popular low-cal recipes. In this book, she shows that weight loss diets need not be tasteless and unappetizing. Summary Of The Book Losing weight can be a challenging task. It involves cutting down on the calories and good exercise routines. Some people might want to lose weight in a hurry and go for extreme measures like crash diets. The author says that weight loss need not be a painful process. The person who needs to lose weight need not starve themselves or sacrifice all their favorite foods. It is just a matter of making some adjustments in their favorite dishes and they can still continue to enjoy them. Low Calorie Healthy Cooking shows readers how replacing high-calorie ingredients with low-calorie alternatives and slightly tweaking the cooking process can work wonders. This will reduce the calorie count of the food, while still enabling the person to enjoy their favorite foods. The author has revised the collection of her low-cal recipes in this edition by including new ones and retaining many of the old and traditional dishes, just tweaking the ingredients and cooking methods in innovative ways. These variants on popular recipes cut down on the calories while still retaining much of the flavour and taste of the original. The book contains recipes in many categories such as Soups, Drinks, Salads and Raitas, Breakfasts and Snacks, Desserts, Western Delicacies, and many Basic Recipes. Each category includes numerous tasty low-cal recipes. The dishes described include Roasted Capsicum Soup, Mexican Salad, Paneer Tamatar Paratha, Spicy Spinach Dumplings, Corn Stuffed Potatoes, Apple Crumble, Pineapple Sheera, Chocolate Sandesh, Masala Puri and Russian Sandwich. The book even includes recipes for low-fat paneer and cream cheese. Low Calorie Healthy Cooking is a compilation of tasty dishes that have been modified to have low-calorie ingredients and still delight the palate with the flavor and taste of the original recipes. It shows weight watchers how to count calories and eat healthy while still having wonderful and appetizing meals. About Tarla Dalal Tarla Dalal was a popular Indian chef and food writer. Her other books include The Complete Gujarati Cook Book, Punjabi Khana, Know your Flours, and Delicious Diabetic Recipes: Low Calorie Cooking: Total Health Series. Tarla Dalal was born in 1936. She conducted cooking classes from her house in the late 1960s. Her first published book was The Pleasures of Vegetarian Cooking. She started a range of ready-to-cook meals called Tarla Dalal Mixes. This was eventually bought by International Bestfoods in 2000. In 2007, she started a new series of cookbooks, the Total Health Series. Her books are highly popular and have been translated into many languages, both Indian and international.