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Emu Adds Flair to Down Home Favorites
Cookbook offers easy to use recipes
Previously found only on menus featuring exotic dishes, emu is strolling into
the American kitchen, peeking in the oven, lifting a few pot lids and
encouraging cooks to try something new in their old recipes. According to
Louisiana Chef Dale Emu Bourgeois, emu is a high-protein, low-fat,
nutrient-packed, heart-healthy red meat that can be substituted in any recipe
calling for lean meat.
The 500 recipe book, Emu – Life Just Got Healthier, contains an introduction by
Bourgeois expounding the merits of cooking with this low-cholesterol red meat,
along with nutritional information on both emu meat and emu egg. 200 of the easy
to prepare recipes feature emu as the main dish. In a delightful twist, recipes
calling for egg are given the "emu equivalent" followed by the number of chicken
eggs you could substitute. For example, if a recipe calls for 1 cup of emu egg,
you may substitute 4 chicken eggs.
The cookbook was compiled of recipes submitted by the people that eat emu every
day, members of the American Emu Association. Because emu growers across the
country submitted these recipes the cookbook provides a variety of regional
favorites that are sure to please. For the chef's convenience, this cookbook
also lists AEA emu meat distributors.
"Emu.... Life Just Got Healthier" cookbooks are available on the AEA Website, at
www.aea-emu.org or you can order by calling AEA at 541-332-0675. ######
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