The recipes in this book are tailored to the needs of the modern working woman, calculated and planned to help you cook quickly and economically, selected and illustrated to help you present tasty, presentable, and healthy meals. The nutritional value of various foods and the correct way they should be cooked, so as not to alter their nutritional elements, is of fundamental importance for our good health. It is therefore useful, if not essential, to know a little about foods, their usefulness, and their origin, to properly plan a meal.