The Flavor of California: Fresh Vegetarian Cuisine from the Golden State [Hardcover]

Marlena Spieler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 13, 1994

Gathers recipes for salads, appetizers, soups, spreads, dips, pastas, grilled foods, casseroles, side dishes, breads, tarts, sauces, and desserts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harper (July 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062585177
• ISBN-13: 978-0062585172
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,116,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a fabulous cookbook, March 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Flavor of California: Fresh Vegetarian Cuisine from the Golden State (Hardcover)

I have sampled many cookbooks, vegetarian and omnivore, and this is one of my all time favorites. Many vegetarian cookbooks contain recipes that are either endlessly time consuming, or simply produce a bland final product, or even worse, both. This cookbook harbors recipes that are mostly quick to prepare and are all spectacularly tasty; these dishes have become staples in my repertoire. I have prepared about half of the recipes in this book, and not one has proven a dud. The pictures are lovely to look at; the prose is what one would hear from a friend explaining the background of a recipe and how to best prepare it. I have given this cookbook to almost all of my friends, in California and outside of it, and it has been an enormous hit. If you like to cook, buy this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite cookbook, October 26, 1998

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World Traveler "Oakland" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flavor of California: Fresh Vegetarian Cuisine from the Golden State (Hardcover)

I've tried only about 10% of the recipes in this book, and all have astounded me and my lucky guests. My favorites have been the Sopa de Tortilla, the Sonoma Salad of Spinach, Carmelized Pecans and Warmed Goat Cheese, and the Grapefruit and Tequila Sorbet.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious recipes, August 10, 2010

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The Hairy Optimist (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flavor of California: Fresh Vegetarian Cuisine from the Golden State (Hardcover)

We bought this book wanting to replicate 'California' style cooking that we tasted while traveling. The recipes rely on fresh fruit and vegetables and are fun to experiment with. The peach-nectarine-apricot pie is wonderful.