Fresh Start is a guide for beginning a healthy, lower-fat lifestyle with step-by-step help in changing old eating habits to newer, better ones. "In Fresh Start you'll find four weeks of menus designed to get those of you who strive to understand low fat cooking off to a fresh start and give those of you who already have begun the healthy eating habit hundreds of new ideas," says Julee.  Rosso has succeeded once again in creating simple, bold-flavored recipes that reflect her approach to cooking, an approach that has made her a familiar voice, trusted and loved by millions of home cooks. In Fresh Start, Julee's intense, fabulous-tasting cooking style shines in more than 200 recipe favorites that minimize the fat and intensify the flavor.  Organized into four weeks of easy-to-follow daily menus, including snacks and low-fat substitutes, and packed with valuable guidelines on healthful, nutritious cooking, Fresh Start is designed to make a daily commitment to good health deliciously satisfying. is a guide for beginning a healthy, lower-fat lifestyle with step-by-step help in changing old eating habits to newer, better ones. "In Fresh Start you'll find four weeks of menus designed to get those of you who strive to understand low fat cooking off to a fresh start and give those of you who already have begun the healthy eating habit hundreds of new ideas," says Julee. Rosso has succeeded once again in creating simple, bold-flavored recipes that reflect her approach to cooking, an approach that has made her a familiar voice, trusted and loved by millions of home cooks. In Fresh Start, Julee's intense, fabulous-tasting cooking style shines in more than 200 recipe favorites that minimize the fat and intensify the flavor. Organized into four weeks of easy-to-follow daily menus, including snacks and low-fat substitutes, and packed with valuable guidelines on healthful, nutritious cooking, Fresh Start is designed to make a daily commitment to good health de is a guide for beginning a healthy, lower-fat lifestyle with step-by-step help in changing old eating habits to newer, better ones. "In Fresh Start you'll find four weeks of menus designed to get those of you who strive to understand low fat cooking off to a fresh start and give those of you who already have begun the healthy eating habit hundreds of new ideas," says Julee.  Rosso has succeeded once again in creating simple, bold-flavored recipes that reflect her approach to cooking, an approach that has made her a familiar voice, trusted and loved by millions of home cooks. In Fresh Start, Julee's intense, fabulous-tasting cooking style shines in more than 200 recipe favorites that minimize the fat and intensify the flavor.  Organized into four weeks of easy-to-follow daily menus, including snacks and low-fat substitutes, and packed with valuable guidelines on healthful, nutritious cooking, Fresh Start is designed to make a daily commitment to good health de With more than 5.5 million books in print and nearly thirty years of food and cooking experience, Julee Rosso has become one of America's most established and well-respected cooking authorities. Her best-selling cookbooks, including Great Good Food (Crown, May 1993), her first to focus on low-fat, healthy cooking, have won her a devoted following. The Washington Post says, "Rosso is the first cookbook writer who has made lower-fat cooking fun as well as sensible--and has gone out of her way to make it taste absolutely terrific.  It's what food fans across the country have come to expect from her." As an original co-founder from 1977 to 1988 of The Silver Palate, the first real gourmet take-out food and catering shop in Manhattan, Julee and her co-founder introduced the big, bold intensely flavored dishes that have become so popular over the past fifteen years.  By 1989, she achieved international culinary fame as the co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and The New Basics Cookbook. Great Good Food, her first solo effort, has sold more than 400,000 copies and Publishers Weekly recently listed it as one of the ten best-selling classic cookbooks.         Since the enormous success of Great Good Food, people all over the country have been eagerly awaiting Julee's next cookbook to focus on healthy eating. In FRESH START (Crown, May 1996), Julee offers twenty-eight days of menus, which include recipes that will appeal to everyone--food lovers, long-time healthy eaters, dieters, cookbook lovers, and others--and she proves that healthful cooking is simple and delicious enough to become a daily habit and a lifetime commitment. Julee has appeared on many national television and radio programs, including NBC's "Today" show, ABC's "Good Morning America," and "20/20."  In addition, over the years, Julee has earned an incomparable reputation in the world of food.  Her contributions to the specialty food business have been recognized through such prestigious awards as the "Oc