Mama Now Cooks Like This: The Best of Susan Mendelson

Delectable dishes - created with the greatest of ease.

For 27 years, Susan Mendelson's recipes have found a favorite place in kitchens across the globe. People from around the world have been e-mailing and calling to locate copies of her fabulous cookbooks. Fans will be thrilled to find this terrific compilation. Mama Now Cooks Like This presents the best of all her cookbooks as well as over 60 new recipes for healthful entertaining using low-fat and high-fiber ingredients.

Mendelson's approach to cooking is to have fun and create delicious food with the greatest of ease. She has simplified the steps in her recipes to make them accessible to even the novice cook, with guaranteed spectacular results. She has even included some family holiday favorites.

A sampling of the tantalizing recipes:

• Easy brie and pecans in phyllo
• Chicken satays with spicy peanut sauce
• Roasted tomato and fennel soup
• Halibut with sweet red pepper sauce
• Four-cheese quiche with red pepper
• Spinach and feta kugel
• Famous lemon cheesecake
• Chocolate truffle cookies.

Susan Mendelson's philosophy is simple: If the recipe is not outstanding, it does not appear in the book.