The Vegetable Bible (Hardcover)

by Christian Teubner (Author), Hans-Georg Levin (Author), Elizabeth Lange (Author), Andreas Miessmer (Author)

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Product Description
Vegetables are no longer just a colorful side dish. More and more people are turning toward vegetarian cuisine for a healthier lifestyle. This ultimate, authoritative, and incredibly sumptuous guide to vegetables turns nature's bounty into a culinary main event. There is an abundance of information on these gifts of nature: from the comprehensive directory of vegetables, both exotic and common, arranged by botanical families, to detailed chapters on a variety of cooking techniques in pan, pot, or oven--braising and stewing, boiling, shallow and deep frying, steaming, blanching, baking, and grilling. Mouth-watering recipes ranging from the simple to the sophisticated spotlight an assortment of vegetarian dishes--cold soups, starters, salads, stuffed vegetables, and main courses--and are guaranteed to delight the eyes and satisfy the stomach.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Studio; First Edition edition (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670881309
• ISBN-13: 978-0670881307
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,634,723 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good picture book for veggies!, April 4, 2000

By A Customer

This cookbook is a good introductory book on vegetables. It has a lot of pictures of vegetables, vegetables dishes, and techniques in preparing vegetables. Content-wise, the cookbook starts with a pretty good introduction to the health aspects of vegetables followed by an encyclopedia of different vegetables. It's not a comprehensive encyclopedia but the vegetables that it portrays, it gives historical as well as botanical info. Some Asian vegetables are mentioned in the encyclopedia. There's a section on the practical aspects of preparing vegetables and a wide variety of recipes involving varied cooking techniques such as raw to boiling to stuffing to braising to sweating. There's a fair number of recipes with some international flavor (European, Asian) but I think this cookbook is good for getting an overview of vegetables, in terms of historical info, health info, the different ways to cook vegetables, and a nice selection of recipes but not too overwhelming. But this is the cookbook to get about vegetables if you like pictures, more than 1000 color photographs!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More an encyclopedia than a recipe book, July 7, 2000

By	Dolores R. Neilson (Bethany, Ct) - See all my reviews

I ordered The Vegetable Bible because I was interested in top notch vegetable recipes. When I received the book and perused it thoroughly, it was more encyclopedic in content with copious, fabulous photographs instead of a recipe book. Tuebner is painstakingly thorough and for someone who wants to master every conceivable vegetable, their origin, seasonal info, best way to cook them, etc.... this is the book to buy. For someone who would like alot of recipes, this isn't the book to get....Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" would be more suitable. The above mentioned does not include many photographs, however.

I did return the cookbook for the lack of recipes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A perfect starter, January 7, 2006

By	Christopher Jones (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Vegetable Bible (Bible (Whitecap)) (Paperback)

Very nice layout, with a nice history piece on veggies. It is perfect for a beginning chef like myself. Knowing the basics is very important and this book is very helpful. Shows all the varities of each plant mentioned. worth the read for sure