Star Ballerina Turns Star Chef And Wins The 2002 Gourmand World Cookbook Award!

Linda Hymes, the author of The Dancing Gourmet, Recipes to Keep
You on Your Toes! (ISBN 0971978204) cookbook has won the 2002 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Photography/Illustration English/USA). Chosen out of 3500 books entrants from 60 countries, she is now a finalist for the Best in the World award in her category (competing against 12 other countries), which will be awarded at the gala dinner at the Chateau de Brissac in Angers,France, on Feb. 28, 2003. Ms. Hymes, a former professional ballerina and
Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, wrote, designed, and self-published this beautiful award-winning cookbook together with her husband, photographer Derek Gaffney.
The book was just published in August, 2002 and is on its way to becoming
a bestseller. The Dancing Gourmet contains over 100 recipes beautifully
photographed together with wonderful illustrations of dance and an original
illustrated logo of a dancing chef.
The Dancing Gourmet beautifully marries the culinary and performing arts and offers a legitimate parallel between two very complimentary professions:
the body of a ballerina and the diet she must maintain to keep it, a completely original angle in an otherwise saturated cookbook market. Ms. Hymes is the only professionally-trained ballerina and chef to write a cookbook and her tantalizing recipes will to dispel the myth that dancers dont eat.
Luscious seared scallops on a bed of softly simmered French lentils drizzled
with garlic oil or exotic lemongrass-scented Thai chicken curry is exactly
what is needed to provide the strength and stamina for a long evenings
performance.
The Dancing Gourmet is not a diet cookbook! It appeals to
a wide market because of its intriguing approach to healthy gourmet cooking,written by someone who has made a career of keeping her weight balanced. Most women dream of being a ballerina and many would like to look like one.
She has received rave reviews from both the food and dance communities, including the head chef of Le Cordon Bleu, Restaurant Hospitality
Magazine, and several well-known professional ballet dancers. Linda will
also be premiering a food column in Pointe Magazine beginning in February
2003 and will be reviewed in march issue of The National Culinary Review. She will also be appearing in Cooking Light Magazine in late spring.
With 27% of the American population officially obese and 34% overweight,The Dancing Gourmet is the perfect role model to help Americans both young and old enjoy gourmet food without stretching their waistline. For more information, visit our website at www.dancinggourmet.com.
For a review copy, interview or to book a cooking demonstration, please
contact Lindergaff Books at 1 (866)688-2722.