CHLOE'S KITCHEN

Making waves with her healthful, beautiful, delicious vegan food, Chef Chloe Coscarelli presents more than 100 original recipes with stunning four-color photography that bring fun and energy to a wide range of dishes.

Classically trained Chef Chloe burst into national media by winning the Food Network's hit reality show challenge, Cupcake Wars the first time a vegan recipe won a challenge. An exciting young talent, Chef Chloe is widely heralded as a rising star for her ingenious recipes that make vegan food delectable and accessible.

Chef Chloe's first-ever cookbook explains the vegan diet how to get all your nutrition from a plant-based diet and why it's so healthy in her fresh, dynamic style, as she provides delicious, incredibly appetizing, inventive recipes she has created, from savory starters to decadent desserts. What makes Chef Chloe's recipes new and exciting is that she makes healthful vegan versions of our favorite foods, from comforting macaroni and creamy (no-dairy) fettuccine Alfredo to crave-inducing sliders and fries and adaptations of the most popular Chinese, Indian, and Mexican dishes. With Chef Chloe, eating vegan doesn't mean giving up your favorite treats and flavors. Here's a way to enjoy family favorites and her coveted desserts including the first publication of her Cupcake War-winning vegan cupcakes without busting your belt. * Chef Chloe won the Food Network's Cupcake Wars with vegan recipes that the judges couldn't believe and has continued to wow with her entirely individual "edgy-veggie" creations: A young, beautiful talent, Chef Chloe is being widely heralded as a rising star for her ingenious recipes that make vegan food more delectable than ever before. With attention from all the vegan magazines and a major online presence (www.chefchloe.com), fans are lining up for Chef Chloe's clever innovations on vegan cooking.

* In this general book on vegan home-cooking, all the recipes are original; the vast majority will not have been previously published on her website:
This is a general book on vegan cooking that provides more than 100 delicious and healthy new recipes. Chapters include, among others: Small Bites, Eating with Your Hands, Oodles of Noodles, The Main Event, and Fabulous Desserts, which will include her never-before-published winning cupcake recipes.

* The vegan diet has moved beyond its fringe roots into the mainstream:
Vegan food is growing in popularity. In 2009 one percent of Americans said they were vegan (about 30 million people), and natural food chains that cater to the vegan lifestyle have expanded Whole Foods now has more than 300 stores, with sales up from $92 million in 1991 to approximately $8 billion in 2009.Alicia Silverstone's Kind Diet was number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and Kathy Freston's Veganist reached number two; Chef Chloe will be next.

* Health benefits of eating vegan:
Vegan food is made without any animal products, including dairy, butter, eggs, honey, and seafood. A well-planned vegan diet has many health benefits. It can prevent and reverse coronary artery disease and diabetes; reduce total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer. It's also a great way to lose weight. With Chef Chloe, eating vegan doesn't mean leaving behind your favorite treats.

* Fresh, beautiful photography throughout by Miki Duisterhof, who did the photography for Katie Lee's Comfort Kitchen
Chef Chloe Coscarelli is a Food Network-winning vegan chef, proving to the world that vegan food can be stylish, delicious, and easy. She recently took home first place in the Food Network's Cupcake Wars, making her the first vegan ever to win on a Food Network competition. Chloe is a graduate of The Natural Gourmet Institute of Health and Culinary Arts NYC; the University of California, Berkeley; and Cornell University's Plant Based Nutrition Program by Dr. T. Colin Campbell (The China Study). Additional work includes Millennium Restaurant San Francisco, Counter Organic Vegetarian Bistro New York City, and Herbivore Restaurant Berkeley.