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Recipes from an Ecological Kitchen: Healthy Meals for You and the Planet

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If I could only keep one of my cookbooks, this would probably be the one. A wonderful cookbook for vegetarians, vegans and others who want to eat less animal products. Delicious and practical. This book got me hooked on using a pressure cooker (though you can still make the recipes without one) and I now use the pressure cooker all the time! Since its original publication RECIPES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL KITCHEN has been reprinted and is currently available in paperback under the title LORNA SASS' COMPLETE VEGETARIAN KITCHEN. I envy those who are about to discover this cookbook for the first time.

This cookbook is amazing. Every vegan, vegetarian, or anyone even interested in a healthy lifestyle should invest in this book. It's enormous, has recipes for every type of grain or vegetable that you could think of, and it even has a glossary of ingredients with great tips. Every recipe I've tried from this book is delicious. I hope that it doesn't continue to be out of print.

I grew up with a mother who used a pressure cooker, and have used one myself for much of my life. However, after I had the old pressure cooker blow its top and its safety button and spew borscht all over the kitchen, my use of pressure cookers became curtailed! However, I lead a busy life and believe in eating things about which I know the ingredients, ie most of my cooking is "from scratch", and missed the convenience of a pressure cooker. Then I discovered Lorna's pressure cooker cookbooks at the same time as I found a KuhnRikon double walled pressure cooker on sale! Pressure cooking entered my life again, often with recipes based on Lorna's ideas.

Because I had such confidence in her ideas about pressure cooking and healthy eating, I bought a used copy of Recipes from An Ecological Kitchen. It has become our standard reference for how to handle a new ingredient, or cook one with which we are familiar in a new fashion. At that point, we say "Let's see what Lorna says..." I recently sent a copy of it to my daughter, who seems to be using it in the same way - as a reference and a source of healthy and innovative recipes. Thank you, Lorna!

I am very excited about this cookbook. It's mostly written from the perspective of doing it in a pressure cooker, but also has instructions for cooking without one. I have made several recipes without the cooker, and now I must get one to try it the other way!!! Instructions are very easy to follow in this book, and I agree with another reviewer that the fact it doesn't have pictures really doesn't detract from the charm of the entire book. This book is very motivating and I do recommend it for vegetarians and omnivores alike!

I'm not a vegetarian and this book doesn't read like a vegetarian cookbook but like a big book of very good recipes. The combinations will encourage you to incorporate more veggies into your diet.

Although the recipe isn't unique, this book left the lasting benefit of my not fearing kale or swiss chard. I chop the dark greens into strips and add them to carmelized onion piece in a hot wok and salt just a little. The straightforward simple if not genius result has meant no leftover greens. There are no pictures in this book and I don't know why that this book should present this recipe in such a way that got me moving although other books such as Sara Moultons also have similar instructions.

I like this book and I recommend it. It's something of a sleeper. The author was pushing for whole grains in 1992.