Totally Mushrooms Cookbook (Totally Cookbooks) (Paperback)

by Helene Siegel (Author), Karen Gillingham (Author) "Here is a lovely light opener for a vegetarian dinner party..." (more)
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Product Description
Do you live for mushrooms, or die for garlic? Do you have the hots for chile peppers, or a craving for corn? These little books are perfect for those of us who can't seem to get enough of a favorite food. The charming wooden crate holds twelve copies of each title making an irresistible display for these die-cut cuties.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890877270
• ISBN-13: 978-0890877272
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #679,422 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for mushroom lovers!, March 26, 1999

By A Customer

I picked this cookbook up on a whim, and thank goodness I did! This clever little book is necessary for anyone who loves cooking and experimenting with mushrooms. Not only does it have the most delicious recipes, but I love the narrative that goes down the sides of most of the pages. It is here that you learn about all different exotic mushrooms, fresh vs. dried, etc. The mushroom barley soup is the best we've had, and we haven't been disappointed with any other recipe either. I've given this book to every true mushroom lover I know!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scrumptious recipes for the mushroom lover, November 16, 2003

By	Shelley Shay (Denton, TX **(God Bless the USA!!)**) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The first few recipes are not too impressive - salads with mushrooms... lots of different salads, just add mushrooms. Recipes like the Mushroom Pecan Paté, however, make the book worth its weight in mushrooms.

The book has dozens of scrumptious recipes for different mushroom varieties... quite a bit is jammed into this tiny book.

I have two major gripes, however, that reduce this book to a 4-star review. While the die-cut shape of the book is whimsical, the pages are not easy to turn and the book will not lay flat. While there is a colorful illustration of different mushroom varieties on the front cover, there are only scant drawings of different mushrooms throughout the book and the drawings are not labeled and are more for aesthetic purposes and do not denote that these are the mushrooms for the recipe at hand. Unless you are a bonafide chef (in which case you probably wouldn't need this book) and go to specialty stores, most people will not run across these mushrooms at the local supermarket. Mushrooms don't have a very long shelf-life and unless you get them dried or know of a market that specializes in mushroom varieties, most of these species will be unheard of and mysterious.

If you don't live next to a "Central Market" or other specialty store that carries a variety of mushrooms, you'll be out of luck identifying some of the varieties covered here, but if you have experience w/ many varieties of mushrooms, but haven't been too successful in bringing out their flavor, this book will be just the help you needed.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hardly a cookbook, October 1, 2006

By	Nicu - See all my reviews

This "book" is a bit of a joke. Very small, mushroom-shaped, and the text is written in very large letters such that each recipe takes two pages. In the 100 pages it has there are probably less than 50 recipes, mostly standard ones with mushrooms added. Looks more like someone's pulled out all the recipes with mushrooms from a regular cookbook. There are much better cookbooks out there for the true mushroom lover.