Customer Reviews

Peaceful Palate

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I just bought The Peaceful Palate about a week ago, and I've already used it several times. I love buying veggie cookbooks and collecting recipes, but this one stands out. I can make most of the recipes in it just using the ingredients I already have in my kitchen -- I do have a well-stocked pantry, but that's still unusual. I would recommend this book for beginners, busy people and those who sometimes just forget how easy it can be to throw together a healthy meal (like me!).

Friends keep asking me what to get for someone who has just started cooking or turned vegan. Hands down, this is the one and only book I recommend. I bought it four years ago and still use it weekly. It has fool-proof cornbread, hummus, split pea soup, tacos, masoor dal, Thai noodle salad, oatmeal cookies---all the vegan stand-bys. For breakfasts, the scrambled tofu is good, though I had bad luck with the french toast and sourdough pancakes. I really appreciate the nutritional information provided for each dish. The pantry-stocking pages are excellent, as is the overview of nutrition and veganism. For beginners, the book's chief asset is its brevity: my first vegan cookbook was too big, and it took me way too long to sift through it and plan the week's meals. This has everything you need for months of great cooking, without much fuss. And its wide pages lay relatively flat, which makes it easier to use in the kitchen. A must for the new vegan or cook in your life.

As recent converts to a vegetarian lifestyle, my husband and I were desperate for nutritious, low-fat, delicious recipies. After looking at countless veggie cookbooks, we found The Peaceful Palate. Every recipe we've tried has been wonderful! So far we've given away at least twenty copies of the book to friends and relatives who have expressed an interest. We should apply for a volume discount!

I have been a vegetarian for 24 years, and a vegan now for just over one year. Last year I ordered a number of vegan cookbooks, but this is the one I return to again and again. It is a very simple cookbook - it truly does feel peaceful - no fretting over unusual ingredients or fussy preparations. It is just simple, delicious food. If you are a new vegan this is a great book to start with, and, as I've found, a great one to stick with.

This was the first cookbook I found upon deciding to become a vegan; I consider this to be a stroke of great luck. Ms. Raymond does a fantastic job of setting you up for healthful cooking: She helps you stock your pantry, explains foods which might be new to a beginning vegetarian, gives nutrition information, and included a cornucopia of easy and delicious recipes. She does not rely on attempts at mimicking foods which contain animal products, but supplies foods which stand easily on their own two feet. Even I, a kitchen klutz, get excited every time I open the book. A must for any kitchen, vegetarian or no.

My husband and I are not vegans, nor are we even vegetarians, but the recipies in here are so delicious and simple to make that we usually end up making them again and again.

This is a fabulous cook book. There is nothing overly exotic so it was very easy to find all of the ingredients. I served the Tempeh salad sandwich to my meat eating family and none of them knew the difference, infact they said it was the best sandwich they've ever had! The carrot cake with tofu cream frosting was incredible and was finished all in one evening. My mom loved the coffee cake and insisted I not forget to give her the recipe. I can't wait to try all of the recipes. Thank you Jennifer Raymond!

If you are a person wanting to expand your daily veggie intake, this is the book to get. A lot of vegetarian meals from other cookbooks taste like they are missing something. The stuff in here (my favorite is the Winter Squash and Hominy Stew) is enough for the heartiest of appetites.

Raymond easily could have titled this cookbook "Quick, easy, and delicious"! The split pea soup is one of my favorite cold-weather recipes, and just about everything I've tried in this book has been great. Highly recommend.

Easy to read recipes with simple, common ingredients.

It's my #1 cookbook.

"The Peaceful Palate" by Jennifer Raymond is full of delicious easy-to-make recipes that don't require any strange or hard-to-find ingredients. Between me and my mother-in-law, we have made a dozen of the recipes and each one turned out well. As an alternative to an overly sweet birthday cake, I have made the "Applesauce Cake" several times with the "White Delite Frosting" or just a sprinkling of cinnamon and powdered sugar. I like to give this book as a gift to friends and family, so that they can see how easy and tasty vegetarian cooking can be.