A thoroughly written heart healthy cookbook with over 500 recipes for every meal, including snacks and desserts. The only drawback... I just wish it had more pictures.

Great cookbook for those looking for delicious heart healthily recipes. All the recipes were easy to follow with assessable ingredients. Many of the recipes were a hit with my family: Apple-Walnut bread, Chewy Molasses Cookies, and the Stir-fry. We've made these multiple times! But we did have a few misses too. Overall, a great addition to your cookbook collection.

Cooking a La Heart provides heart healthy recipes in one place. It discusses the importance of these recipes for your health. There are many charts and discussions of ingredients. Seasonings and sauces are paired with easy to follow recipes. However, the recipes do not include serving size or cooking time which would be helpful in preparation.

Everyone needs to know how to care for the one and only body you will receive on this earth. This book carefully, but in layman's terms, tells us the latest research on heart-healthy eating.

The Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) eating patterns are scientifically proven to be the healthiest for our hearts, and they even have added brain health benefits. Combined, they make the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diet, which further reduces the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Cooking à la Heart incorporates all three into one nourishing, wholesome, environmentally friendly cookbook with
500 delicious, health-promoting recipes for every meal (plus snacks and desserts), including: Spinach Scramble Pita Pockets • Turkey-Vegetable Soup • Cilantro-Lime Chicken & Corn Salad • À la Heart Mexican Inspired Mac & Cheese • Shrimp Tacos • Blueberry Crisp • Pumpkin Spice Ginger Bars
an emphasis on plant-based ingredients, healthy fats, and thoughtful use of dairy, poultry, and lean red meat
nutrition facts for calories, protein, total carbs, dietary fiber, added sugars, total fat, saturated fat, omega-3s, sodium, and potassium
More than 35 color photographs show off how indulgent heart-healthy eating can truly be. With Cooking à la Heart, eating better isn't difficult or boring—it's an investment to keep you enjoying good food for many years to come.
My Take:

My number one reason that I loved this book is that the book opens with this: There's no single dietary pattern that's best for everyone. I love that this author/nutritionist recognizes that fact and lets you know that it is ok that you have tried every diet under the sun. Still, the book features ways to improve your own patterns of eating and tells you some of the research about the popular diets like the Mediterranean Diet, and more.

About the Author:

Amy Myrdal Miller, MS, RDN, FAND, is an award-winning dietitian, farmer’s daughter, public speaker, author, and president of Farmer’s Daughter Consulting, an agriculture, food, and culinary communications firm founded in 2014. During her 25-year career, Amy has worked for Fleishman Hillard (a global public relations firm), the Rippe Lifestyle Institute (a small clinical research firm in Massachusetts), Dole Food Company, the California Walnut Board & Commission, and most recently, The Culinary Institute of America.

A farmer’s daughter from North Dakota who now lives outside Sacramento, Amy received her B.S. in dietetics from the University of California, Davis, completed her dietetic internship at the University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinics, and earned her M.S. in nutrition communication from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

She and her husband Scott Miller love playing golf, listening to smooth jazz music, sampling wine and craft beer at local Northern California wineries and breweries, and hosting family, friends, and neighbors for backyard parties where they can enjoy the beauty and bounty of CA GROWN foods and beverages.

Description
Promote heart health, support brain health, and reduce inflammation, with this comprehensive cookbook filled with 500 flexible, flavorful recipes and practical tips for healthy eating, including 50 color photos and illustrations

*Opinion*
Well, I have Heart Problems myself and I am exited to explore this Cookbook - I just flipped through it but I was stunned and I will dig in it later. Also inflammation is a problem sometimes - but I am sure I will finde great meals to cook. 500 Recipies are a lot so it will take me some time =))

Thanks for letting me read it!

This is good to have on hand, the recipes are easy to follow and there’s pictures. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy.

I love cookbooks that not only give me delicious recipes (highly recommend the Chicken Chile Verde) but give me a lot of insight into how different foods both negatively and positively affect your body.

Heart disease runs in my family so making small changes in the way I cook and eat food can make a huge difference down the road. I will say many of these recommended swaps may not be realistic to many families as the price of groceries continue to soar.

Overall, I recommend this cookbook. The author does a wonderful job of showing the benefits of different ingredients without coming off “preachy” And as an added bonus- the recipes are delightful!

We are trying to eat more heart healthy so this book was a must read. There’s so many positives but a few negatives too.

*Tons of recipes for each section.
*Easy to find ingredients and easily followed instructions.
*Cute intros to the recipes.

Negatives
*Not enough pictures.
*If you are a picky eater , this isn’t the book for you.

This isn't a cookbook, it's a bible – one of those efforts that just crams its pages with recipe after recipe, from seasoning after seasoning to sauce after sauce, on through soups, salads, baked goods, breakfasts, pasta dishes, home-made pizzas, and so on. This kills off stone dead the idea a cookbook needs a "personality" behind it, with their copious photos of food porn interspersed with them and their organic children chasing a chicken around an allotment. Gone is the wasted ink of the waffle as they reveal finding their favourite recipe while talking to a gypsy with no name in an ashram somewhere. Absent is the advert for their lifestyle, and added commercial properties.

This does aim for a lifestyle, mind – a fairly low-sodium, low-meat diet, bouncing with fruits and veggies. It's the Mediterranean diet more or less – they do like the extra virgin olive oil – but here the influences are allowed to come from all over, so we get coconutty curries, Tex-Mex hacks, and a worldful of grains to make a breakfast porridge out of. (That said, this is the first recipe book I've read in years to not feature a shakshuka, so the makers must go to jail for breaking that unassailable law, I'm sure.)

On that regard, some of the ingredients are not your generic local shop kind of material. Here in the UK I am restricted to the cheaper stores but I cannot remember specifically seeing a catfish, an acorn squash happens when you sit under an oak tree too long, and I cannot reasonably say I've ever seen a dried cherry (they're bound for a Persian pilaf with pistachios). The flip side of that is that the recipes don't want you to do unearthly things with these – there is no smoke gun until you're miles in, no blowtorch, and you will get more than enough from these pages without a spiralizer. This likes keeping things relatively unadulterated.

Finally, the book doesn't hammer the pseudo-science into you; it plugs the benefits of each and every recipe in snappy fashion, but unlike other books where you're allowed to be a quarter in before seeing a recipe this cuts back on the preamble and justification. OK, I didn't pull too many recipes from my digital review copy for future reference, but that's just me – it doesn't stop this from being as close to essential as any cookbook I can recall.

This recipe book centers on eating for a healthy heart and has been divided into sections, including a rather lengthy one that goes into the science behind healthy heart eating, bordering on lecturing.

While the title boast 500 recipes, usually a great thing, it may be doing a disservice to the book. There are very few standout recipes and the lack of pictures increases the odds that the recipe will not stick with you. I don't understand this instance in recipe books that lack photos.

I thought this was an excellent cookbook. There was a nice introduction to the Mediteranean, DASH, and MIND diets.

The book starts off with some interesting and useful information regarding health and diet. I’ve done some research into healthy eating due to my personal dietary needs and I still found some new information in this section. For example, did you know that spinach and eggs help to reduce your risk of macular degeneration? I did not.

There is a useful chart distinguishing between all the different oils available that gives information such as how much saturated fat is in the oil, what it is best used for, and how to store it. I also liked the eat twice strategy chart.

There is a decent sized section for seasonings, as well as sauces and dressings, which was nice.

I like that photos included were labeled with the recipe name and, in the ebook, a link to the recipe. I wish all of the recipes included photos or at least that there were more of them. I do understand that it would make the book much longer, but I find them helpful and interesting.

I thought there were a lot of delicious sounding recipes that I would try. I think I will start with the Chicken Chile Verde. Yum!

Thank you The Experiment and NetGalley for an e-ARC of the book.

This book begins by introducing us to science-based nutrition information as well as explains what are Mediterranean, DASH and MIND diets. This introduction helps us to understand which ingredients are better in supporting our bodies and what makes these diets healthy. The recipes are divided into types of food and by ingredients which makes it easy to find a desired recipe.

I love this cookbook. It has great recipes that are heart healthy and taste great! There are 500 recipes in this book and while I have not tried all of them, I have really liked the ones I have tried. I would recommend this cookbook.

4 stars for a heart-healthy and delicious book of recipes~

This was a solid collection of recipes overall with a lot of helpful information about heart-healthy nutrition. There were a lot of recipes within that i would definitely try out. It serves as a helpful supplementary guide to living a more healthy lifestyle as well.

Thanks to NetGalley and The Experiment for providing a digital ARC for review!

This cookbook contains 500 heart-healthy recipes! These recipes are great for diabetics or cooks who want better mental or brain health. The first part of the cookbook includes a plethora of research and information about healthy eating. It introduces 10 principles and practices of healthy cooking. Since one of the principles is to use less salt, there are seasoning charts and tons of recipes for seasonings and dressings to help flavor the food. The recipes look amazing! I can’t wait to try the Tzatziki sauce recipe. Happy cooking!

Thank you to NetGalley and The Experiment for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

COOKING À LA HEART, Fourth Edition by Linda Hachfeld and Amy Myrdal Miller offers 500 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Help Make Every Meal Heart Healthy. In order to share so very many recipes the authors include numerous ones for spice combinations, sauces, etc., potentially making this cookbook of more interest to an experienced cook still looking to experiment in a healthy way. I was a bit surprised, actually, at the relatively small number of main dish recipes, although about fifteen percent of the text contains sections for Fish & Shellfish, Chicken & Turkey, and Beef, Pork & Lamb. Also, COOKING À LA HEART lists no nutrition information (another surprise for a cookbook with a health emphasis) and has relatively few photos in the preview. Personally, I think it adds enjoyment to cooking to be able to see a dish before preparing it.

This is a very thorough collection of better-for-you recipes. I appreciate that the authors refer to healthy eating patterns rather than a specific diet, since this style is more accessible to more people. They promote some universally held eating guidelines, such as eating more vegetables, limiting processed foods and reducing salt intake.

The format of the cookbook is very easy to use. I love how they include recipes for staples like spice blends, sauces and dressings. When those basics are listed in other recipes, they are linked to the original recipe. Some of my favorite recipes from the book are the soups and the "bowl" recipes, aka entree salads.

I will refer to this book often, and I will recommend it to our library patrons who are looking to eat healthier.

Thank you to The Experiment and NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A heart cookbook approved by pre-eminent cardiologist James Rippe of UMASS is a cookbook worth having whether or not someone needs a ‘heart healthy’ diet. This cookbook is jam-packed with delicious nutritious recipes from unique spice mixes and sauces through desserts. Divided into sections addressing ways and meals people want to eat, whether it’s soup, salad, grain bowls, legumes, burgers, tacos, or meaty main dishes, there is something to appeal to every appetite. It’s recipes anyone would seek to eat, even those without heart conditions. Nicely dovetailing divergent/related medical issues, these are also recipes suitable for diabetics and those with inflammation issues. This should quickly become the cookbook you reach for first, to get meals on the table quickly and enjoyably.

Very informative and enjoyable information for all who want to cook healthy good food. Everyday food that can be easily prepared and served. Recommend!

This is the fourth edition. I found the numerous salt free rubs, spice mixes and sauces enticing. I enjoyed the explanations of the DASH, Mediterrean, and other healthy diets without the preaching of what not to eat. There were plenty of recipes to choose from and I was happy to read this when offered by Netgalley.

My only regret is there were few pictures of the meals/recipes. I like to see what a dish will look like.

These are my own opinions and I am not required to leave a positive review.