Holly Rudin-Braschi's Grill Power first edition sold over 50,000 copies. Since it made its debut in 2000, indoor electric grilling is still "Hot, Hot, HOT!" That's because it continues to be one of the top choices for ultra-busy folks to cook quick, healthy, homemade meals year-round. Grill Power: Second Edition remains the most comprehensive book devoted to cooking on electric indoor grills.
Grill Power: Second Edition is an excellent choice for grill owners who want to move beyond the basics of the manual that came with their grill. Author Holly Rudin-Braschi's provides a wealth of information on the use and care of all the electric grills on the market, information unavailable from any grill manufacturer. Rudin-Braschi hasn't changed any of the 125 mix-and-match healthy recipes in this book because the culinary techniques, recipes and fifty menus have stood the test of time. Many of them have become family favorites for readers' weeknight meals and fancy entertaining. One culinary colleague told her Grill Power is a true "classic" and pronounced it his favorite go-to book for grilling ideas and recipes.
This indispensable grilling resource organizes the recipes in 50 menus. Each menu includes a step-by-step game plan that gets meals on the table fast, ingredient substitutions, recipe variations, timesaving tips, serving suggestions, a nutritional breakdown of each menu, as well as fascinating notes about menu ingredients, culinary history, the author's on-air culinary experiences with celebrity chefs, and much more. To help ensure cooking success, each menu and recipe was thoroughly tested by a team of professional chefs and home cooks, so everything works.
Rudin-Braschi's readers have told her that they have learned to create their own grill recipes by combining her comprehensive information on marinating and rubs with the cooking techniques and grilling charts she provides for meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, and a wide variety of fruit.
Stove-Top Grill Pans (non-stick), Outdoor Gas and Charcoal Grills... All Systems Go! Great news for Grill Gods and Goddesses who grill on all types of grills! Every grill recipe in Grill Power: Second Edition can be made beautifully on just about every type of grill. Rudin-Braschi and her readers have tested them all with great success on standard gas and electric grills, charcoal grills, as well as on stovetop, non-stick grill pans.
About the Author: Holly Rudin-Braschi, author of Grill Power and Grill Power: Second Edition is a professional cooking instructor; an American College of Sports Medicine certified health fitness and nutrition lecturer, as well as a veteran group fitness instructor with Zumba and Sharqui Bellydance Workout certifications. In addition, she studied nutrition at California State University at Hayward. As a professional journalist, Holly's articles, which focus on such topics as food, fitness, nutrition, and travel, have appeared in national magazines including Cooking Light and Southern Living, and newspapers nationwide, and has been represented by the New York Times News Syndication Services. A sought after speaker by major corporations and universities throughout the United States, Holly has been a wellness presenter at companies such as Apple Computer, 3M, Chevron and many others. Combining her culinary knowledge with an engaging, high-energy personality, Holly sold over $10 million in culinary appliances on QVC as an on-air guest for Salton. Holly has also appeared on TV as a culinary expert throughout the US, Canada and Europe including appearances with Vefa Alexiadou, the Julia Child of Greece, on her program in Athens, Greece. In addition, Holly is a musician and music instructor with a Bachelor's Degree in musicology and languages from Vassar College, and a Master of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in NYC. She is author of Holly's Ukulele Method(TM), the most comprehensive book for learning to read music on the ukulele, developed while teaching group ukulele at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, CA for 10 years. She holds a German language certification from Middlebury College in Vermont and speaks French, Italian, German, and basic Norwegian and Greek.
For more information or to book a personal appearance, please visit Holly on the web at www.grillpower.com and www.ukelesson.com
