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5.0 out of 5 stars Oh come now! Everything???
Well, not quite everything, perhaps. But covers just about every category of food from soups and salads to sandwiches and treats. Basic ideas which can be extended with a little imagination to preparation of many dishes. Tickles the iomagination. And with only a little over 100 pages, it doesn't load you down with fifty milliion recipes you will never use.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good Vege cookbooks around. Why buy leftovers?
Mark Bittman, a widely recognized and respected cookbook author and New York Times food columnist, has succumbed to greed. He and his publishers have split up his very well received book `How to Cook Everything' into several separate pieces and is charging for the pieces more than the price of the original book. This volume, `Vegetarian Cooking' is one of the...
Published on April 17, 2004 by B. Marold


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68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good Vege cookbooks around. Why buy leftovers?, April 17, 2004
This review is from: How to Cook Everything : Vegetarian Cooking (Paperback)
Mark Bittman, a widely recognized and respected cookbook author and New York Times food columnist, has succumbed to greed. He and his publishers have split up his very well received book `How to Cook Everything' into several separate pieces and is charging for the pieces more than the price of the original book. This volume, `Vegetarian Cooking' is one of the pieces.

The author and the publisher are not trying to hide this fact, although I suspect they will not shed a tear if you buy the book with the impression that this is new material.

On the surface, I am sure they will rationalize that they are doing their readers a service by providing parts of this very good book at a lower list price than the whole book. This is pure hokum. The original book is a very good contribution to the genre of `If you own only one cookbook, this would be it' cookbook. So, why would I want to buy only part of that book? If I want a book on basics, I would do much better to buy Alton Brown's `I'm Only Here for the Food'. If I want a book on quick cooking, I suspect one of Rachael Ray's books will be better AND cheaper. If you want a good book on vegetarian cooking, get `Passionate Vegetarian' by Crescent Dragonwagon.

Speaking of Herr Doktor Brown, he and his Food Network colleague Ina Garten seem to have caught the same case of avarice in that they have had knockoff volumes published with artwork which is based on their best-selling volumes, but which contain cut rate material, or maybe even no material. They are selling pure hype.

I have a great amount of respect for all three of these authors. I have even met Alton Brown and find him a truly gracious gentleman who deserves all good fortune and celebrity he can garner. But I do not wish these authors to put out products that some people can easily buy under a false expectation fostered by the product's marketing.

Do not buy this book. Buy the complete `How to Cook Everything' and be done with it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing good going on here, October 21, 2010
This review is from: How to Cook Everything : Vegetarian Cooking (Paperback)
I couldn't believe I paid that much for such a useless cookbook. This is like some home ec student wrote it after eating a veggie burger.
Nothing in there a vegetarian doesn't already know and the recipes really need to be doctored up in order to have any flavor at all.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed in this book, October 21, 2010
This review is from: How to Cook Everything : Vegetarian Cooking (Paperback)
I felt I was ripped off. There is no creativity here and the recipes are blah to say the least.
More of a reference book on how to boil water, how long to cook rice, make sure to scrub your veggies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Oh come now! Everything???, May 10, 2010
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This review is from: How to Cook Everything : Vegetarian Cooking (Paperback)
Well, not quite everything, perhaps. But covers just about every category of food from soups and salads to sandwiches and treats. Basic ideas which can be extended with a little imagination to preparation of many dishes. Tickles the iomagination. And with only a little over 100 pages, it doesn't load you down with fifty milliion recipes you will never use.
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11 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars There aren't enough vegetarian cookbooks., September 2, 2003
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This review is from: How to Cook Everything : Vegetarian Cooking (Paperback)
There aren't enough good vegetarian cookbooks.....this one is great!! It offers 90 easy-to-follow vegetarian recipes by the nationally known food authority Mark Bittman - which makes it a must-have.
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