As You Like It Cookbook: Imaginative Gourmet Dishes with Exciting Vegetarian Options [Paperback]

Ron Pickarski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

Have you ever prepared a wonderful dish, but because it contained beef or chicken, your daughter-in-law, the vegetarian, wouldn’t go near it? The challenge of cooking for both vegetarians and nonvegetarians is becoming more and more common. To meet that challenge, Ron Pickarski, one of the most celebrated chefs in this country, has written the As You Like It Cookbook — a unique cookbook designed to help you find the perfect meal for today’s contemporary lifestyles.

The As You Like It Cookbook offers over 175 recipes for great-tasting dishes that appeal to a broad range of tastes. Many of the easy-to-follow recipes use lean and luscious cuts of beef, pork, poultry, or seafood, but guide you in substituting vegetarian ingredients so that the dish will also appeal to vegans and vegetarians. And handy substitution guidelines enable you to turn any of your favorite meat, poultry, seafood, egg, and dairy recipes into meatless options.

So don’t despair the next time someone asks what’s for dinner. With the As You Like It Cookbook, a tantalizing meal—cooked exactly as your family likes it—is just minutes away.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Offers over 170 great-tasting dishes that cater to a broad range of tastes. This book has it all." -- The Jewish Journal

About the Author

Ron Pickarski is the first professional vegetarian chef to be certified executive chef by the American Culinary Federation, and is President and Chef/Consultant of Eco-Cuisine, Inc., a food technology consulting service. A recognized expert in the preparation of both traditional and vegetarian cuisine, Mr. Pickarski is also the author of Eco-Cuisine: An Ecological Approach to Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Square One Publishers (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757000134
• ISBN-13: 978-0757000133
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,437,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious recipes with many options!, June 9, 2001

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This review is from: As You Like It Cookbook: Imaginative Gourmet Dishes with Exciting Vegetarian Options (Paperback)

Mr. Pickarski has once again graced us with a cookbook filled with delicious recipes. But this cookbook is different. The reason I only gave it a 4-star rating is that I was a little disappointed that he included meat in some recipes. His attitude toward whole foods also seems to have mellowed somewhat since his first book, "Friendly Foods", was published. He now uses white flour and granulated sugar. However, most of his recipes live up to the Pickarski name as they are great-tasting and made with healthy ingredients. One thing that impressed me about this book is that the meat recipes always include a vegetarian option, and recipes including dairy always include a vegan option. This would be a good book for someone new to cooking as directions are given in a clear step-by-step manner and are very easy to follow. There is also an extensive section describing different ingredients with which one may not be familiar. Mr. Pickarski's latest cookbook is also a great help for someone that has to cook for meat-eaters (like I do). There's something here for everyone!