Rice and Spice [Paperback]

Robin Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2000

More than half of the world's cuisines are shaped around rice.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Robin Robertson is one of the U.S.'s leading writers on vegetarian cooking. A cooking-school teacher and a former chef and caterer, she has written six other cookbooks, including the Soy Gourmet and The Vegetarian Chili Cookbook. A regular food columnist for The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) and the Albany, NY Times Union, she lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558321608
• ISBN-13: 978-1558321601
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #924,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A longtime vegan, Robin Robertson has written nearly twenty cookbooks, including 1,000 Vegan Recipes, Vegan Planet, Vegan Fire and Spice, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, and Quick-Fix Vegetarian. For more information about her books and for sample recipes, visit her website at www.globalvegankitchen.com and her blog at http://veganplanet.blogspot.com.

Before she began writing cookbooks, Robin was a restaurant chef and cooking teacher. When she left the restaurant business in the late 1980s, Robin became vegan for ethical reasons. Over the years, she has fine-tuned her plant-based diet into an eclectic and healthful cooking style which she thinks of as a creative adventure with an emphasis on the vibrant flavors of global cuisines and fresh ingredients. In addition to writing cookbooks, Robin writes 'The Global Vegan' column for VegNews Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diverse, wonderful one-dish meals., August 23, 2000

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Patricia S. Mccarthy "Kevin McCarthy" (Concord, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rice and Spice (Hardcover)

This book if full of excellent vegetarian (suprisingly!) one-dish meals. The author's tastes run along my own lines. In this book you'll find recipes that come from Japanese, Indonesian, Indian and Thai roots as well as American eclectic innovations. The author has included main dish, soup and dessert recipes.

I'm not a vegetarian, but have been pleasantly surprised at how satisfying the dishes are. I never thought that vegetarian dishes could be so good. Rice is, of course, the common thread that ties all of the collected recipes together and the author has devoted the first chapter of the book to educating the reader about the different types of rice and how to prepare rice in a foolproof manner.

What I loved about the book is the way I changed my eating habits by getting hooked on the simplicity of the one-dish meals contained within, the flavors of the dishes (incredible) and the way I felt after eating (full, but not stuffed = more energetic).

This is my current favorite cookbook.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robin's Book are Solid, June 23, 2006

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Cherie J. Anderson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rice and Spice (Hardcover)

I think I have every one of Robin's books, except the Apocalypse Chow one. I find her books to be reliable, but this one might possibly be a fave, if I had to pick one. The lemon-mint pesto rice with beans was one of the best meals I've had and the leftovers were great cold. Make some extra rice tonight and have dinner started for tomorow! Also includes recipes for lesser known rices.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a terrific book, August 1, 2008

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Tammie Dickerson (Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rice and Spice (Paperback)

If you like rice then you will love this book. The dishes are
savory, sweet to spicy with an abundance of flavors from the
Mediterranean, Middle East, India, Caribbean, stir fries from
East Asia, risottos from Italy & more. Every thing is simple to
make and the seasonings are easy to find at any grocery store.
This has become one of my favorite cookbooks.