Clean Food, Revised Edition: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source [Hardcover]

Terry Walters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2012

Clean Food is a feast for the senses that will nourish mind, body, and soul--and this revised edition offers lovers of fresh, seasonal vegan fare even more than before. In addition to all-new color photographs and 20 entirely new recipes, acclaimed chef and nutritionist Terry Walters has updated the dishes to feature today's most healthful ingredients. Now, for example, virgin coconut oil substitutes for canola oil and maple syrup replaces agave nectar as a sweetener. In addition, those going gluten-free will find recipe variations throughout the book to meet their needs.  

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This friendly cookbook makes (mostly) vegan cooking approachable with simple recipes and straightforward descriptions of more exotic ingredients, and makes it of-the-moment by focusing on using local, seasonal ingredients. More than 230 recipes—each fits on a single page—are organized into spring, summer, fall and winter chapters and showcase the produce that should be available at a given time of year. While there's some typical vegan fare, like seitan bourguignon or scrambled tofu, many recipes play with expected ingredients in interesting ways: marinated tofu with ginger cashew dipping sauce; quinoa and black bean salad with apricot lime dressing; and spicy coconut pumpkin soup. The desserts are especially appealing, with options such as fresh fruit tart with almond crust; chocolate pecan pie; and banana coconut chocolate chip cookies. Although it's surprising that a book so focused on avoiding processed foods would feature processed ingredients in some recipes—the lemon berry cream pie calls for purchased lemon snaps; a savory deep-dish pie uses frozen pie crust—occasional shortcuts like this make the collection even more approachable. (Sept.)
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From Booklist

Walters advocates a fully vegan regimen as key to good health. For her, clean food means less processed food, more whole grains, no dairy products, and certainly no meat, but she insists that food offer plenty of appealing, assertive flavors if it is to satisfy consumers. She believes in the healthy virtues of thorough chewing, disciplined eating, and balanced living. These recipes will not surprise those comfortable in a tofu and brown-rice environment, but she contributes some useful new ideas for such dishes as Caesar salad and surprisingly rich chocolate desserts. Some of Walters’ ingredients may be difficult to obtain outside big-city organic markets, but in this age of Internet shopping, online sources are always an option. In a unique approach to book production, each of the four seasons into which the cookbook is divided appears on a different color of paper stock. --Mark Knoblauch --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Epicure; Rev Exp edition (October 2, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1454900105
• ISBN-13: 978-1454900108
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Occasions > Seasonal
  • #80 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Entertaining

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Vegan Love September 27, 2012

By Lauren Dowell

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm a vegan for health reasons-nothing against those who choose this for other reasons, but I didn't come to this for the ethics of it. So, I sometimes feel cheated with the whole food thing. I mean, I can't find a nice cookie- well, couldn't find a nice cookie.

Now, I feel like the Martha Stewart of vegans! I just made banana coconut chocolate chip cookies! I've only read through "spring" and I stopped reading when I found this one.

I changed the recipe by switching puffed quinoa for the oats (nuts online rocks that stuff), and they turned out great. My daughter, an avowed hater of all things vegan, gave them a solid seven out of ten noms. I give them ten out of ten because I'm so desperate for cookies.

I look forward to making more stuff, but if I don't, this evening of cookies and tea has been well worth the cost of the book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Clean Eating Answer March 12, 2013

By Jennifer_80

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Terry Walters' book Clean Food is truly the clean eating answer. Followers of Tosca Reno's Clean Eating magazine and cookbooks should take note. The recipes are simple, each one usually just a page, and there are beautiful photos throughout. The page design is beautiful. Each recipe has an introductory story, sometimes personal, and each is sorted in the cookbook by the recipe's main ingredient availability per season. So, the sections are Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Did anyone else feel guilty cooking from the Summer recipes during the Winter or is it just me?

There are some unnecessary considerations and restrictions here that limit the all-encompassing message that plant foods are good for you. Oxalic acid in beets and spinach and saturated fat in nuts are a few examples. I am not a nutritionist but in reading Vegan for Life by Norris and Messina (my bible), neither of these issues were serious enough to warrant even a specific mention in their book.

Vegan-curious cooks or people leaning into veganism should feel very comfortable with this book because there is no mention of the ethics of animal agriculture anywhere that I could see.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Y-U-M!! December 1, 2012

By Marilyn

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Delicious recipes. I bought one for a gift as well. Used two of the recipes for Thanksgiving, and recieved raves on the dishes! Can't wait to try more!