The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook [Paperback]

Whitecap Books (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1998

"The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook" is a fresh, modern approach to vegetarian cooking, providing exciting, innovative recipes. Beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos, this cookbook also includes easy-to-understand nutritional information plus notes on unusual ingredients and special cooking techniques. This book provides a wealth of information and inspiration for the vegetarian cook. Color photos.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook is a full-color cookbook featuring exciting new recipes and flavours for the vegetarian lifestyle. From spanish omelettes and high-energy shakes for breakfast to double chocolate muffins for a midnight snack, The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook can fill famished need with mouthwateringly delicious and palate tempting unique foods. From an all vegetable barbecue to an eggplant and mushroom curry, from a nutmeg date cake dusted with icing sugar to a winter vegetable casserole, The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook is the perfect addition to an established vegetarian cookbook collection for the experienced cook, and a wonderful place to start developing a vegetarian meal plan for those just beginning a vegetarian diet. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Whitecap Books (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155110752X
• ISBN-13: 978-1551107523
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook (Paperback)

I have many vegetarian cookbooks but this is the only one that has consistently excellent recipes. Virtually every new recipe I try in this book yields another wonderful dish. The recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients are not hard to find. In addition, the book provides nutritional profiles for each of the dishes and has a very complete section about the various ingredients, detailing how to pick and store them.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I thought it was impossible great vegetarian food, December 22, 2000

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Tom Munro "tomfrombrunswick" (Melbourne, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook (Paperback)

This book is one of a series of "Essential" books. This like others in the series is well illustrated and explains in simple terms the cooking techniques for each recipe. There is an introduction which gives an explanation of why it is a good idea to incorporate more vegetarian type dishes into your diet.

I am not a vegetarian but my partner is of that persuasion. I thus eat and cook a large amount of vegetarian food. I would like to say that this book has been a revelation. Most other vegetarian cookbooks tend to have dull flavorless recipes with ingredients chosen on ideological grounds rather than on flavor. For some years I actually gave up on using these sorts of books and made vegetarian food from Indian and Middle Eastern cook books. Those cuisines were able to produce food which would look attractive was interesting to eat and was nutritious.

I was given this book as a present and started to go through making a few recipes. Each time I made something it would taste great and was generally not difficult.

If you have a vegetarian friend give them a copy of this book it will save you from having to eat flavorless black bean stews and alfalfa sprouts when you drop in to visit them.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Did She Really Make All These Recipes?, January 11, 2000

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Robyn Dettmar (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook (Paperback)

I try to write a date and note next to each recipe the first time I make it, and looking through my book, I see that even some of the "spicier" dishes (a potato curry, for example) were enjoyed by everyone in my family---even my ten-year-old son! There are many interesting and innovative recipes in this cookbook, but I've sometimes gotten the impression that the author didn't make all the recipes herself. A couple of times (sorry I can't find the specific recipes), she seemed to leave out important steps or not mention something significant that one should watch out for. I do remember something that when baked, fell apart because it stuck to the pan. There was no instruction to grease or otherwise prepare the pan to prevent this. Anyway, I would say this is overall a good cookbook, but I am a little leery to make new recipes now, since I'm not sure all the necessary steps will be included.