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Real Women Eat Chiles
by Jane Butel

Armchair Interviews, March 2006 Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
If you love good food with ingredients that will contribute to your health, you'll definitely want to own this cookbook.

M & C BOOKS, March 31, 2006 by Sandy Amazeen
Artistic photography, 120+ user-friendly recipes, introductions, preparation time and nutritional information make chiles an indispensable addition to the kitchen.

Book Description
From internationally-renowned culinary queen, Jane Butel, this newest cookbook is full of fantastic food photography, more than 120 recipes, and exciting information about the benefits of eating chiles. Readers will benefit from Jane Butel's decades of knowledge and experience using this wonderful fruit, the chile. Butel shares her culinary and dietary secrets that have kept her slim throughout a career of working with food and that have also helped countless real women maintain an ideal weight. Chiles help the body burn more calories, and Butel's flavor-packed, low-calorie recipes will get you on the road to better eating and better health. You don't have to like it hot for this cookbook to become your favorite; Butel shares recipes for salads and desserts as well where the chile adds just the right touch.

From the Publisher
Do you know any real women? Not the kind you read about in romance novels or see on soap operas, but the kind that eat chiles? Real women who love to eat chiles to stay healthy and spice up their lives are celebrated in this distinctive cookbook. Jane Butel, the "Queen of Chiles" and founder of a uniquely American cuisine, has created more than 120 delicious, low-calorie recipes showcased here with vibrant photography. Real women climb corporate ladders and 20,000-foot mountains. Real women raise corporate profits, kids, and garlic. They teach school, host television programs, ride mountain bikes, practice medicine, and own commercial gardens. Their profiles and quotes inspire us all to try a little chile...if it works for them, it'll work for us, too! Jane Butel's fantastic recipes are accompanied by a lively discussion of the origins of chiles and their curative properties. The book is interspersed with profiles of real women who have the healthy habit of eating chiles. Some of these women were born into "chile cultures"; others acquired a taste for the spicy fruit while living abroad. All of them use the chile to enliven meals, and some have even made careers out of the chile-based cuisine. Meet these real women and read about their interesting affinities to chiles while you try Jane Butel's innovative recipes, such as Green Chile Corn Chowder or Black Bean and Goat Cheese Chalupitas.

About the Author
Jane Butel, the first to write about southwestern cooking, is an internationally recognized authority on the regional cooking of the American Southwest. In the late 1970s, following a successful career as one of America's top Consumer Affairs executives, she launched her southwestern writing, teaching, television, consulting, and spice business. Her Soutwestern Cooking Schools in New Mexico and Arizona have garnered high recognition. Bon Appetit magazine selected it as one of the four best in the world and Gayout.com listed her hotel-based schools as the best in the United States and one of the world's top ten. She also conducts tours to Mexico and Spain. Pecos Valley Spice Co., a trusted source for chiles, spices, and other authentic southwestern ingredients, was founded in 1978. She continues to spice up America's favorite cuisine with the recipes from the rich culinary, cultural, and historical heritage of the Southwest. She has written seventeen cookbooks, including Hotter Than Hell: Hot and Spicy Dishes from Around the World.

A cookbook of more than 120 chile-based recipes (May 2006)
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)

World famous culinary author Jane Butel presents Real Women Eat Chiles, a cookbook of more than 120 chile-based recipes, with a sprinkling of profiles of women who engage in the healthy habit of eating chiles. Some were born into cultures that embrace chile; others acquired a taste for chiles while traveling abroad. Deliciously spicy dishes range from Grilled Veggie Bites with Spring Salsa to Beef Enchilada Bake, Tamale-Style Catfish, Shrimp Salad Burrito, and Spicy Hot Chocolate Mousse. Easy-to-follow instructions, cooking tips, color photographs, and nutritional information of the calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium per serving of each recipe round out this "must-have" guide for anyone interested in cooking with chile peppers.

Really great! (April 2006)
Reviewer: armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota)

Calling all real women! If you love good food with ingredients that will contribute to your health and give the dishes a bit of a kick, Real Women Eat Chiles by Jane Butel is definitely a cookbook you'll want to own.

Real Women Eat Chiles is not just a cookbook. It features profiles of women who regularly include chiles in their diet. For those people who are curious and enjoy information of any kind, there is an intriguing section about the origins and curative properties of chiles.

Each recipe is accompanied by an approximate cooking time and dietary explanation. The reader is given the per serving calorie count, protein, carbohydrate grams, fiber content, saturated fat amount, cholesterol and sodium content. This information alone makes the book worth the price.

Real Women Eat Chiles is published by Northland Publishing in Flagstaff, Arizona. They publish some of the finest and most beautiful books I read. And Real Women Eat Chiles is no exception. The photography is stunning. It gives the book an art-book feel.

But the recipes themselves are scrumptious. I had no idea that chiles could be used in so many delectable dishes, including desserts. I'm a convert. While I don't like to cook, I love to eat and I am using this cookbook and having so much fun.

Some of my favorite recipes are: Chicken Rice Salad with Halapeno Lime Cream Dressing. The name says it all. The Beef Enchilada Bake takes about twenty minutes and is simply delicious. The Chicken Chilaquiles con Salsa is my new favorite dish. It's scrumptious, fast and looks so appealing. My husband thought I'd spent hours in the kitchen. I'm sticking to the story.

There's a vegetarian section that meat eaters will also gravitate to. And check out the Breakfast Wrap. For all of us who are "on the run," it's perfect.

But it is the dessert section that made my heart go pitter-pat. Yes, desserts with chiles! Oh, there are so many! The Banana Oatmeal Cookies, Berry Blast, and the Spicy Broiled Pineapple are to die for! But, if you want a treat, try the Spicy Hot Chocolate Mousse because real women eat chiles, but they also eat chocolate.

Armchair Interviews says: Real Women Eat Chiles is a must-have, must-use cookbook.

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