Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Broadway - Broadway
Release date: 2007-11-06
Hardcover
Author: Deborah Madison
Vegetable Cookery, Vegetarianism, Cooking, Cooking / Wine, Vegetarian - General, Cooking / Vegetarian, Vegetarian cookery
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Date undefinedI'm a member of a food coop (in Minnesota) and eat vegetarian 3-4 days a week. Having said that I can't really recommend this book. Too many recipes with too many ingredients with too many sauces/salsas that have to be made along with the main part of the recipe in order to make the food palatable, plus too few recipes for everyday use. Maybe if I had all day to cook and lived in California where I'd have easier access to the ingredients I could recommend this book.
Although not a vegetarian cookbook, I'd recommend "Classic Indian Cooking" by Julie Sahni which contains many vegetarian recipes, some simple, some complex, some vegan and some with milk and butter along with meat recipes as well.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Date undefinedI fell in love with Deborah Madison's food when I lived in San Francisco. Greens remains one of my favorite restaurants in the U.S. and its relationship to the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center & Green Gulch Farm have inspired the world's finest chefs to try and imitate. Her whole foods approach has an economy about it, while maintaining a culinary elegance. This is a vegetarian cookbook to be sure, but the foundation it lays for serious cooks and prospective culinary professionals is invaluable. Her breakdown of tools and staple ingredients are where I point folks wanting to start their gastronomic endeavors off correctly with the fewest mistakes. How often have we bought something or loaded up on things, only to think later "I wish I would have done that differently." If you are interested in healthy or vegetarian cooking this is the 'must have' cook book.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Date undefinedIt is now customary for my friends to ask, "Deborah Madison?" when they are sated by one of my vegetarian dishes. Go with the majority opinion here (not the negative reviews, which alternatively say "too simple or too complicated") which confirms what an indispensable book this can become for well-rounded cooks. OK, my critical comments in purposeful order:
- The recipes should include estimated cooking times. Her breezy, enthusiastic writing style belies the elaborateness of some of the recipes. I cooked the spinach gratin with red pepper sauce. It was quite an undertaking; good thing I work from home.
- As the book is titled "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone," she could help us out with some suggestions of meat accompaniments at least in an appendix; or in the case of the red pepper sauce, letting us know when the substitution of chicken stock (rather than water or vegetable stock) would really make the recipe sing.
- Sometimes she's inconsistent in the consistencies of sauces and soups - ones that call for flour or soaking and the like...a little rejiggering is required.
- The publisher has forgotten to include an extra dust cover; my current one is beaten up due to frequent use.
- Deborah forgot to add her phone number. I am madly in love with her and want to ask her out on a date (I'll even volunteer to cook her a dinner using her recipes!)
