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Learn to COOK - Vegetable Love
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List Price: $35.00
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.65
EAN: 9781579651688
ISBN: 1579651682
Label: Artisan
Manufacturer: Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Artisan
Studio: Artisan
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Barbara Kafka has been shaping the way America cooks for three decades. She’s doing it again.
With her customary originality, thoroughness, and passion for great cooking, Barbara Kafka has created the cook’s ultimate vegetable resource: 750 original recipes showcasing everything she adores about the vegetable world, from the lowly green bean to the exotic chrysanthemum leaf—even stretching the definition to include potatoes, mushrooms, and avocados just because she’s crazy mad for them.
Her love of vegetables shows in every dish, each impeccably researched, consistently foolproof, and put to the Kafka taste test. Among these delectable dishes are dozens of essays, including personal reflections on the garden and migrations in the vegetable world, for example; all are erudite and unfailingly entertaining.
Kafka’s book within a book—an at-a-glance, we’ve-done-all-the-work-for-you Cook’s Guide—provides practical, encyclopedic information on how to buy, measure, substitute, and prepare every food that ever called itself a vegetable.
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Summary: Helpful except when it distinctly isn't.
Comment: I've been using this book for a couple of years at this point. I joined a CSA and this book is often what I pick up when I just need to know the correct cooking times and best way to simply prepare said vegetable. By using the book as a reference (because it really doesn't lend itself to cover to cover reading), I feel I've covered most of the book. I have made the following observations:
1. Barbara doesn't love all vegetables (despite the book's title). And Barbara has opinions about the best way to prepare vegetables. If she doesn't like a certain preparation or a certain vegetable, it will get the short end of the stick. I consulted the cookbook tonight for information on roasting cauliflower (a method of preparation that is very popular) and encountered the following: "I do not care for roasted cauliflower." Period. No instructions. End of story.
2. Barbara's recipes tend to have a lot of ingredients.
3. Barbara loves her microwave.
That said, this is still a wonderful reference. If you cook a lot of vegetables, this is a great book to have. It is far from the best vegetable cookbook out there though.
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Summary: Where is that book?
Comment: I am always looking for this book! Although I cannot fault the recipes, and there are truly some grand offers, the best part is the blue section in the back that explains what, when and how to best prepare this particular vegetable. When in a hurry, wondering if the microwave will destroy flavor, etc., this section gets opened on the table. It is already dog-eared and I have had it less than a year. Besides that - it is a pretty book! Great Gift for gardeners and a wonderful reference.
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Summary: If you truly enjoy eating vegetables, this book is for you
Comment: One of the best cooking books in my library. A must when you are short of ideas and hungry. Bravo !
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Summary: Vegetables - NOT Vegetarian
Comment: This book is called "Vegetable Love" and it is a great encyclopedia for cooking vegetables. It is well written, fiesty, and fun. It is NOT a vegetarian cookbook, and I am not sure why anyone would even think that it was. Vegetables are a side dish for most people in the western world and Kafka does a very good treatment of the subject. I have purchased several copies as gifts in addition to the copy I purchased for myself.
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Summary: Quirky but great
Comment: Kafka is opinionated and I don't always agree with her. (For instance, she hates dilly beans, thinks lambs quarters are far inferior to spinach, and loves ramps). But, I don't mind that - the world would be boring if we all agreed all the time. This is a fun cookbook with imaginative, good, and easy to prepare recipes, and I use it regularly.
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