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Learn to COOK - 1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, 2nd ed.
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Surrey Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781572840324
ISBN: 1572840323
Label: Surrey Books
Manufacturer: Surrey Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 852
Publication Date: 2000-09-30
Publisher: Surrey Books
Studio: Surrey Books
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This revised edition of tasty, healthy recipes accommodates vegetarians of all persuasions. A new chapter, "Veg Express", features dishes that can be prepared and cooked in less than 20 minutes.
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Summary: I hope it gets better...
Comment: I only got to page 3 because I saw something that was completely non-vegetarian listed in a vegan recipe! "Chili Bonzos" call for Worcestershire Sauce. I don't know if the author knew, but one of the main ingredients in Worcestershire Sauce is ANCHOVIES! If one were to assume that the author meant Vegetarian Worcestershire Sauce, then shouldn't that have been covered in the Ingredient Information section at the beginning of the book?
I'm already turned off of it and I don't know if I'll read past page 3 unless it's just to look for more errors.
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Summary: Good basic vegetarian cookbook
Comment: This is just a good, basic vegetarian cookbook with lots of variety. One may not use every recipe in it, but I rarely use every recipe in any cookbook, so I don't think that is unusual. And, it IS 1001 recipes to work with. A nice addition to vegetarian cooking, and really nice to have. It is not a how to be vegetarian book, I would recommend Becoming Vegetarian for that, or The Vegetarian Way.
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Summary: One of my most used books
Comment: I'm not even vegetarian and this is one of my most used books, especially in the summer when fresh fruits and vegtables are abundant. Very tasty and adaptable recipes.
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Summary: This book is the bargain basement of vegetarian recipes:
Comment: Having gone veggie a few years ago, this was my first non-introductory style vegetarian cookbook, and although I commend Spitler and company for the sheer quantity of recipes here, I've found the recipes to be very hit or miss. I think this is partly due to the often non-intuitive combinations of ingredients found in many of the recipes. While sometimes these out-of-place ingredients are genius (i.e. the black -not adzuki- beans in the egg rolls, or the more than liberal use of celery seed in the bleu cheese dressing), sometimes these combinations can turn what seemed like a tasty dinner into something even my dog looks askance at (like the orange juice and zest in the hummus or the cream cheese and cranberries in the savory wontons). The dishes err more on the sweet side of the palate than on the spicy side. That said, all of the dessert type foods I have tried so far have been solidly good, while the majority of the entrees required a healthy dose of crushed red pepper. My suspicion is that these recipes were generated by a crew less than adequately familiar with vegetarianism, as many of the recipes attempt to make use of meat substitutes (i.e. Mexi "meatball" soup, rigatoni with italian "sausage" and fennel pesto, "burgers" provencal, swedish "meatball" and dilled potato cassarole, etc, etc)with less than appetizing results. There are a least two problems here: first, there are plenty of amazing veggie dishes that don't try to imitate the "meat and potato" style meal (there are almost NO Indian entrees in this book), and second, nothing makes one miss the real thing more than a poor substitute. Yes, those tvp crumbles look innocent enough in the grocery aisle and are easy enough to throw into the pasta sauce, but unless you want to spend you're evening sobbing over your half eaten plate of "sausage" lasagna for your momma's home cooking, then PLEASE skip the phoneys and throw in some chopped baby bellas instead. To summarize, this book is like the bargain basement of vegetarian recipes: over-stuffed with so-so items, but amidst the bland and the out-and-out bad, there are a few gems that make this book deserving of a place on your shelf.
As a bonus for those tracking diet information: each recipe is tagged as vegan, lacto-ovo, lacto, or ovo, to make finding appropriate recipes easy, and all recipes come with calorie counts, basic nutrition information, and the exchange listings for the ADA.
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Summary: great reference
Comment: I bought this because my friend has this and made so many great recipies from here. It's huge with many great recipies that I use very often. My only complaint would be it's no frills without photos. Everything I've made is great... hard to believe it's all healthy!
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