The Best Vegetable Recipes (Best Recipe Classic) [Paperback]

John Burgoyne (Illustrator), Carl Tremblay (Photographer), Daniel J. van Ackere (Photographer)

Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: America's Test Kitchen (April 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933615168
• ISBN-13: 978-1933615165
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #644,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Yams, December 29, 2007

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C. E. Checa (CA United States) - See all my reviews
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OK, I bought this book because I hate vegetables. I really REALLY don't like them, and I needed to like them. So here comes this book, and the first thing I make is baked yams. Oh man, I LOVED them! Then I tried the leeks. I'd never had leeks before, and had no idea how to cook them. They were amazing!

I love to read through the description of the process they took for each vegetable, trying to find the ideal way to cook them; I can see what I have tried and didn't work, WHY it didn't work, and what WILL work.

Not a lot of pictures in this book, but I have enjoyed everything I've tried.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Breadth, Questionable Depth, September 7, 2008

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NuJoi "Create with me" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Vegetable Recipes (Best Recipe Classic) (Paperback)

I love this book! I tend to cook my favorite veggies over and over. Besides, it's hard to buy something you don't know how to cook. Well, this book eliminates my fear of experimenting.

This book covers 53 vegetables. I can't even name 53 vegetables. I was tying to think of a supermarket veggie that's not in this book, but I couldn't come up with one. This book has the produce aisle covered.

Some of the recipes in here are repeats of the annuals and other CI books. You'll get that with any CI Best book. However, I like having a book that organizes everything by type of veggie, as opposed to having to hunt through the other books for veggie recipes.

This book departs a little from the CI format. There is no extensive background info for each recipe. There is a background section on each each veggie.

Here is my constructive criticism: some of the veggies have only one or two recipes! Lastly, I really would have liked this in a hardcover. With that said, I would still recommend this book to others.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best Vegetable Recipes, December 6, 2007

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D. Charlebois "Lola" (Esmont, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Vegetable Recipes (Best Recipe Classic) (Paperback)

Fun to read, recipes don't always turn out even when you follow directions explicitly. Not very health conscious (lots of butter) Illustrations fantastic. Product review very helpful. All in all I am glad I bought this cookbook.