David¿s Pure Vegetarian Kitchen (Paperback)

by David A. Gabbe (Author)

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Product Description
From David's Pure Vegetarian Kitchen is a practical cookbook loaded with delicious, easy, low-fat, and cholesterol-free recipes. Only wholefoods ingredients are used--meaning not a speck of white flour, white rice, white sugar, or other refined foods are to be found in any recipes. And all the ingredients are easy to find.

In addition to more than 200 original dishes (with over 45 tofu recipes), the book explains how much to eat of various food groups; what to eat at work, school, and on the road; how to replace animal products with pure vegetarian ingredients; and what needs to be known about whole grains, beans, soy foods, and important minerals.

About the Author
David Gabbe is also the author of The Going Vegetarian Cookbook and Why Do Vegetarians Eat Like That?, a practicing vegetarian of over 20 years, and father of two vegetarian offspring! He has taught vegetarian cooking and nutrition and has been a speaker at numerous health symposiums, seminars, and conferences since 1990.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Evergreen Northwest; 1st edition (May 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971805202
• ISBN-13: 978-0971805200
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #961,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Vegetarian/Vegan book, March 7, 2003

By	"bubbielove" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

I really appreciate David Gabbe's simple recipes. For those of us with busy lives, his suggestions and tips make it simple to follow a healthy, whole foods (and really good!) diet. For anyone that lives near where he teaches classes, I recommend them. I've taken several classes from Mr. Gabbe and all were fun and highly informative.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars david's pure vegetarian awesome., June 1, 2006

By	M. Triant "nutrition geek" (PDX.OR.USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

i took a cooking class with david at the beginning of this year, and was completely blown away by how simultaneously healthy, simple, delicious, and inventive his recipes were. unlike so many vegan adaptations of non-vegan foods, mr. gabbe never resorts to cheap attempts to imitate (which often sacrifice taste, nutritional value, or both), instead forging ahead with genuinely innovative recipes that always end up both delicious and incredibly healthy. where other vegan recipes are often pale imitations of their non-vegan counterparts, these recipes stand on their own feet, and are as a result much more tasty than many vegan dishes of comparable health value.

i recommend this book especially to anyone who is interested in healthy eating but who feels intimidated by the logistical demands of cooking with healthy whole foods. no other cookbook i have read has recipes as simple to follow as these, let alone as nutritious. and because the recipes are so simple, they are very easy to modify to suit personal tastes or experimental proclivities.

this is by far my most-used cookbook and i can't recommend it highly enough.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to vegan cooking, March 13, 2005

By	Rhiannon (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

"David's Pure Vegetarian Kitchen" is an amazingly accessible introduction to healthy vegan cooking. It provides a good overview of ingredients and nutritional considerations, and then it dives right into a diverse library of recipes. David's down-to-earth style takes all the anxiety out of trying a new genre of cooking. He's perfected vegan versions of many American staple foods - such as cake, gravy, burgers, and so on. These dishes taste so hearty and satisfying that you don't miss the milk, eggs, and other animal products. Even my non-vegetarian friends loved the dishes that resulted from the recipes in this book!