Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen: Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet (Paperback)

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The country's foremost authority on innovative vegan cooking offers 250 cholesterol-free recipes

Featuring a complete A-Z glossary of wholesome ingredients for stocking the vegan pantry (no meat, dairy, or eggs), including advice on selection and storage

The updated paperback edition of the James Beard award nominee

Fans of Lorna's innovative vegan cooking all agree that she has a great talent for combining flavors, textures, and colors to create food that tastes as good as it looks. Applying her expertise as the country's leading authority on the pressure cooker, Lorna frequently offers directions for using this time-saving appliance alongside standard cooking instructions. With menu-planning tips, and an extensive glossary of ingredients, this volume is for anyone seeking a healthy new definition of fast food.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; Revised edition (February 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060007745
• ISBN-13: 978-0060007744
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,619 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fluffiest vegan cake I've ever tasted!, May 24, 2000

By	Wanda Embar "Wanda" (Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen: Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet (Paperback)

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!

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Cookbook!, May 9, 2000

By	Vegan Foodie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen: Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet (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.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite cookbooks!, August 10, 2002

By	merrymousies (Waterford, VA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen: Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet (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!~