Gloria Bakst - Zoneperfect Cooking Made Easy: Quick, Delicious Meals for Your Healthy Zone Lifestyle

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To my mom, with love, a fabulous cook who taught me
how to cook and who collaborated with me on many
of the recipes in this book. To my dad, with love,
who knows how to eat and appreciates good food.

ZonePerfect Cooking Made Easy is a dream come true. For the last twenty years, I have been cooking and creating healthful recipes. Ten years ago, when I committed to the Zone, I adapted my earlier recipes to work in the Zone, even while I developed new ones. As I worked, I kept the hope alive that I would one day publish a cookbook to showcase these nutritious, fast, user-friendly, and, most important, delicious and healthful recipes and to explain how easy it is to live in the Zone. This exuberant lifestyle supports your body and your mind so that you feel your very best at all times.

I want to thank the many people who made this book a reality. First, a big thanks to the folks at ZonePerfect: Paul Pruett, former chief operating officer, who is the greatest boss ever and who was so encouraging and helpful when the book was just getting off the ground; Mark Gorman, former president of the Ross Products division; Mike Ferry, divisional vice president of Ross Products/Abbott Laboratories, for keeping things moving; Mary Drennan, marketing director; and Christopher Calamari, for all their support.

Thanks to my friends Rux Martin and Barry Estabrook for giving me the confidence to Go for it!

I want to thank my valued, hardworking literary agent, Jane Dystel, to whom I am deeply grateful. I also want to thank the team at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, who worked together to get this book to McGraw-Hill.

My deepest gratitude goes to Judith McCarthy, my editor at McGraw-Hill, who is such a delight to work with and is so accommodating.

I want to thank my coauthor, Mary Goodbody, who is simply the most delicious food writer, tremendously supportive, and a source of much information, and who now is my friend.

My mother and father instilled in me a love for and playful attitude toward food, something I have found to be priceless. My mom is a valuable and reliable resource for recipes and knowledge, and a number of the recipes in this book are adapted from hers.

Thanks to Deborah Callan for testing many of the recipes so professionally. I want to thank my sister Audrey Koren and my cousin Linda Paul for tasting and testing recipes, too. I am indebted to author Corinne T. Netzer, whose Complete Book of Food Counts (Dell Publishing, 2000) was enormously helpful in figuring the nutritional analyses with the recipes. I would have been lost without my brother-in-law, Woody Bakst, who made countless trips to Whole Foods Market for ingredients and also helped with nutritional calculations. Thanks, Woody! I would like to thank Joyce Colohan and Dance Energy for keeping me moving.

Heartfelt thanks go to my wonderful kids, Justin, Hayley, and Kerin, for being so supportive as I conceptualized and then wrote this bookand for being so open to trying new dishes.

I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my dear friends who have been there for me through challenging times and have rejoiced with me during the triumphs: Betsy Ostroff and David Weiss; Amy Nechtem and Eric Smith; Gerdy Weiss; Kate and Rick Moltz; Susan and Larry Goldberg; and Amy and Mark Farber. You have been a source of support and pleasure, and I count you as extended family of the best sort.

Most important, I want to thank my husband, Bobby, whose goal in life seems to be to make me happy, and who always succeeds. He was instrumental in making this book happen, and absolutely none of it would have been possible without him. He is the most supportive, adoring man I know, and I love him dearly.