Lorna Sass is fondly known as "the Queen of Pressure Cooking." She is also a widely published food writer and an award-winning cookbook author. Check out her new blog: www.pressurecookingwithlornasass.wordpress.com
Lorna became interested in pressure cooking during the mid-eighties when most Americans had either never heard of this magical appliance or were afraid of it! Her COOKING UNDER PRESSURE, published in 1989, became a best-seller with over 250,000 copies in print. The 20th-Anniversary revised edition of COOKING UNDER PRESSURE came out on November 3,2009.
Lorna followed COOKING UNDER PRESSURE with 3 other pressure cooker books: GREAT VEGETARIAN COOKING UNDER PRESSURE (VEGAN!), THE PRESSURED COOK, and PRESSURE PERFECT.
During the nineties, Lorna wrote numerous vegan cookbooks, recognizing that a vegan approach to food created a much smaller carbon footprint. This was decades before cookbook authors were writing about the connection between food and sustainability. Her RECIPES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL KITCHEN was published in 1992! Her NEW VEGAN COOKBOOK was nominated for an IACP Award and her latest title in this category is SHORT-CUT VEGAN.
Her fourteenth cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS EVERY DAY, EVERY WAY, published in 2006, was awarded the prestigious James Beard Award in the "healthy focus" category. Her latest cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS FOR BUSY PEOPLE, focuses on quick-cooking recipes for cooks on the go.
Lorna has often found herself ahead of her time. While studying for her PhD in medieval literature at Columbia University, she wrote four historical cookbooks that were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art--decades before anyone was studying food history!
Lorna's food articles have been published in dozens of prominent newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit. In addition to her own blogs, she has blogged for The Huffington Post and Green Fork, and wrote a monthly recipe column for localharvest.org.
She is a member of Slow Food, The Author's Guild, and the Women's Culinary Alliance and an alumna of Les Dames des Escoffier, an organization of the top women in the food industry.
Lorna's current passion is to make healthy food available to all, and she is especially eager to help people grow their own food on rooftops and in community gardens in NYC.
For further information, visit www.lornasass.com.
BLOGS: www.pressurecookingwithlornasass.wordpress.com www.lornasassatlarge.wordpress.com
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Lorna Sass is the award-winning author of many highly acclaimed cookbooks, including Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen (Morrow, 1992) and Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure (Morrow, 1989). She is a widely published food writer whose articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Food & Wine, Natural Health, and the Los Angeles Times syndicate. She lives in New York City.
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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful
By Helena
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I've been a vegan for 10 years, but her Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is the fluffiest vegan cake I've ever tasted. I also love the Nut Pie Pastry! Not only do her deserts taste great, I like it that she uses as much whole wheat flour as possible and not too much oil or sugar.
I own a lot of vegan cookbooks, but almost always use this book, because her recipes always taste great! The only thing we haven't been happy with is that we don't like our food very seasoned. But I found out that even when I leave out the ginger, tarragon, salt and pepper, the meals still taste great. Lorna Sass is very good at combining the right kind of vegetables to create great taste. I use the pressure cooker for most of her recipes and love it that I can just throw some ingredients in it and have a great meal when I open the cooker again! We love her Barbecue-Style Tempeh Sauce, the Chickpea Vegetable Medley, the Tarragon Risotto with Mushrooms and Leeks (wow!) all the squash dishes and I could go on and on. I have never made so many recipes from a single cookbook! I'm also getting a lot of complements from meat eaters that usually don't really like to taste anything I make! I love this cookbook!
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By Vegan Foodie
Format:Paperback
If I could only keep one of my cookbooks, this would probably be the one. A wonderful cookbook for anyone, especially, but not only vegetarians, vegans and tjpse who wants to eat less animal products. Delicious and practical.
This book got me hooked on using a pressure cooker (though you don't need one to use it) and I now use the pressure cooker all the time! I liked this book so much I even wrote to the author to ask what pressure cooker to get, and the Magafesa, which she recommended, is a delight to use, entirely safe, and super-fast. But you don't need to own a pressure cooker to benefit from this mouthwatering recipes here.
This book was orginally published in hardcover as RECIPES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL KITCHEN so those who are looking for that title can buy this book. I truly envy those who are about to discover this wonderful cookbook for the first time.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By merrymousies
Format:Paperback
I looooove this cookbook! It inspired me to buy others by Lorna Sass. The recipes are delicious, you can cook them in a pressure cooker (she includes instructions for that) or on the stove top. I've done some of them in the slow cooker too - they all turn out wonderful. The spices are right on target, the ingedients are interesting but not weird, everyone has raved about the things I've cooked from here. Two rhumbs up. I'm buying copies for friends as gifts as I write this (especially for friends who think vegetarian cooking is limiting) This one is terrific!~
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for all Electric Pressure Cooker Cooks!
Whether or not you are a Vegetarian, you will find this book to be one of your favorites. Lorna Sass is the Queen of Pressure Cooking. Read more
Published 1 month ago by V. Louise Hall
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Great vegetarian recipes!
The scrambled tofu recipe is the one I make for breakfast all the time. Some very good risotto recipes too. I learned a lot about vegetarian cooking here.
Published 4 months ago by Perry
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gift for a new "vegetarian".
Was a gift, and the recipient has used it MANY times, and enjoys the recipes very much. Keeps it handy all the time!
Published 4 months ago by marsha scheeline
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great cookbook!
I own many cookbooks, am a real "foodie" and am always surfing the net for new recipes , new ideas, and inspiration. Read more
Published on May 24, 2010 by nshecooks2
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One of my favorites
This is a book I turn to regularly in planning my meals. They have great flavor and are healthy as well. Read more
Published on April 27, 2010 by Happy Soaper
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Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen: Where Good Flavors and Good...
This is a great book and a must-have for anyone who cooks with whole grains. The ingredients needed for most recipes are simple and easy-to-find. Read more
Published on February 7, 2010 by Lynn E. Culver
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book!
I am neither vegan nor vegetarian, but was looking for some way to add healthy real food variety to my diet. Read more
Published on November 30, 2009 by Impatientgirl
4.0 out of 5 stars
Reference and Recipes - A good place to start
The beginning of this book provides ideas on stocking a healthy pantry and kitchen. It offers introductory information on the basics of pressure cooking, wok cookery, and... Read more
Published on February 17, 2009 by CDOI
5.0 out of 5 stars
So much information!
This book title really describes the book -- there are so many recipes with so many variations - I've had my copy for a very long time, and I don't think I've made even half the... Read more
Published on January 5, 2009 by B. J Murray
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Fabulous!
I have been cooking with this book for three years. It is my most used cookbook and contains wonderful, healthy recipies. Read more
Published on October 21, 2007 by Whole Foodie
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