Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone | Deborah Madison

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone | Deborah Madison | also one of the best restaurants

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	Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone Deborah Madison Broadway, 2007 - 752 pages average customer review:based on 190 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Cookbook!

I purchased this book years ago to help me cook for my vegan teenager. She is now an adult and on her own (still vegan) and I still consult with this cookbook a few times a month. It not only has great recipes for main courses, appetizers, and sides, but great breakfast and baking recipes. Whenever I need a fresh idea on how to prepare a vegetable dish I refer to Deborah's book, and I am not disappointed. Highly recommend it!

also one of the best restaurants

I've been the the Green's restauant in San Francisco, which was excellent, decided to get the book, also recommended by a friend, and try some of the recipes. I certainly have not had enough time yet to test many of them, but what I have seen looks quite good, and if the restaurant is any indication, it should become one of my best references.

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Best vegetarian cookbook!

I bought this one on a whim at Costco - every recipe is relatively easy to make and very easy to add your own twist. Its my favorite and most used!

The author did an excellent job including tidbits on each section - for example, did you know that different types of flours and grains need special combinations to get the best flavor? She and other cooks have suggestions in the columns.

Love the book.. all my friends keep asking for the ISBN - my Thanksgiving dinner ideas all came out of this cookbook. All my meat eating friends didn't even realize there was no meat in the side dishes.

If you're vegan, you can cook most of the dishes. If you're raw - some still work, too. If you like meat, fish or poultry, you can add them in pretty easily.

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Daunting tome of vegetable lore

My only complaint about this cookbook is that it is so large that scanning through it seems a daunting task. I especially like the section on vegetables A - Z. I have always had trouble knowing when to put things in the refrigerator, when to leave them out, etc. This book has pointers on that, as well as many great recipes. I'm still learning how to navigate the book, so skimming the book to look at recipes and pick one out is still somewhat difficult for me, but I expect to be going back to this book as frequently as I do The Professional Chef.

Great writing...poor recipes

This book was a joy to read. Deborah Madison has a way of getting you very excited about the endless possibilities in vegetarian cooking. She incites the imagination and soothes your worries, reassuring you that the funny looking brown bumpy root thing is quite delicious and, indeed easy to cook. So you stock up your grocery cart, emboldened and inspired. Then you follow the recipe, trusting that 3 whole quarts of water won't wash out the potential taste explosion in rosemary, garlic, onions, and merely 2 cups of white beans - despite your instinct. But of course, your instinct was right, and the soup is a waterly, bland, concoction of ingredients with no zest. Disappointed, but determined, you try something else. Perhaps this was just a fluke, a tiny typo, in an otherwise praiseworthy masterpiece. But then, it happens again...and again. Countless time and energy devoted to enticing recipes, only to be disappointed with the lack of flavor, or vigor. Something was always missing. I had to add more salt here, more herb there, more garlic, perhaps I'll add some lemon...just to liven it up a bit. I don't regret buying this book, because I truly enjoyed the read. Nevertheless, I'll never seek it again for inspiration in cooking.

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