Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.