Cooking Vegetarian: Healthy, Delicious, and Easy Vegetarian Cuisine [Import] [Paperback]

Vesanto Melina R. D. (Author), Joseph Forest (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1998

Discover the Richness of Vegetarian Cooking … Following a vegetarian/vegan diet doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice taste or nutrition. No matter where you are on the food spectrum — from near vegetarian to vegan inside you will find tasty, nutritious, and easy-to-prepare recipes. Cooking Vegetarian is a comprehensive overview for healthy eating and healthy living through vegetarian eating. Nutrition guidelines, an ingredient guide, shopping resources and uncomplicated recipes help you understand what a healthy diet means and how to put it into action. No matter what your motivation — spiritual, philosophical or nutritional — Cooking Vegetarian offers you a wealth of recipes, resources, and ideas for creating a full and flavorful diet. Inside you Will Find: Over 150 easy-to-prepare recipes including 75 delicious low-fat ideas for heart health and weight loss • Clearly defined nutrition guidelines helping you create a balanced diet that is easy to follow • Identification and definitions of key vegetarian ingredients helps you simplify cooking and shopping • A complete listing of companies that provide high-quality nutritional foods • Complete nutritional analysis of each recipe.

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About the Author

VESANTO MELINA is a dietitian, university and college teacher and government consultant. For the past fifteen years, her speciality has been vegetarian nutrition and foods. Her professional achievements include the prestigious Clintec Award of Excellence for leadership in dietetics. She is the co-author of Becoming Vegetarian JOSEPH FOREST is a chef and food consultant based in Vancouver. His professional career has included working as a banquet chef for the Four Seasons Hotel and other fine dining establishments. He and Vesanto Melina have collaborated on a series of vegetarian cooking and nutrition classes which attained national recognition in Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047134673X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471346739
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,087,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vesanto Melina, M. Sc., R.D., was trained at the University of Toronto and the University of London, England, and taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Seattle's Bastyr University. She was a coordinator for the vegetarian section of the Manual of Clinical Dietetics(Dietitians of Canada and the American Dietetics Association) and is co-author of the nutrition classic "Becoming Vegetarian" (now in eleven countries and three languages), as well as "Cooking Vegetarian', "Becoming Vegan" and "Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer". Vesanto is widely known in the media - press, TV and radio. She is an internationally known speaker and has presented workshops on the topic of vegetarian nutrition to over 1800 dietitians throughout. North America. Vesanto received the prestigious Clintec award for leadership in dietetics. She regularly consults for government and industry and for individual clients.To complement her scientific expertise is Vesanto's joy in creating food that is healthy, delicious and simple to prepare.She became a committed, ethical vegetarian 13 years ago when she was moved to explore the consequences of food choices beyond personal health. Brenda completed an honors degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Guelph, followed by an internship in Ottawa Ontario. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant, academic nutrition instructor, and is currently the Past-Chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy and delicious recipes, November 30, 2001

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Rosemary Ivic (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Vegetarian: Healthy, Delicious, and Easy Vegetarian Cuisine (Paperback)

Of the many vegetarian recipes books I own, this is the one I return to the most. The recipes are delicious, turn out well consistently and have ingredients that I would normally have on hand. The nutritional information is listed with every recipe, which makes it easy to see at a glance, and the opening chapters are very informative about healthy eating. The recipes include enough spices to give them wonderful flavour without being too hot. A practical and inspiring book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New vegetarian cookbook is very user friendly, October 7, 1998

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[e-mail] (Healing Heart Foundation - Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Vegetarian: Healthy Delicious and Easy Vegetarian Cuisine (Hardcover)

Cooking Vegetarian by Vesanto Melina, R.D. and Joseph Forest is a very welcome addition to the top ten list of cookbooks every family, omnivore or vegetarian, should own. Easy to read and attractively designed, this specially bound paperback lies flat for ease of use when cooking.

The book includes a 20 page section called Healthy, Delicious and Easy, a healthful nutrition primer that provides up-to-date information of use to everyone. There are over 150 recipes, half of them low fat and heart healthy (there's a separate list of these with the percentage of calories from fat and fat grams given). Although some of the recipes are time-honored classics, many are imaginative, creative and simple to prepare. A section of attractive color photographs includes step-by-step illustrations for making sushi.

Cooking Vegetarian is a low-key, easy-going introduction to vegetarian cooking to go along with Melina's earlier classic, Becoming Vegetarian. It extols the pleasures of food and the joys of healthful living without upsetting those who choose to eat other ways and yet it may well serve as a eye-opening and non-threatening initiation to a healthier lifestyle.