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What was this cookbook?!

jlibera — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:09:50 -0800

I'm trying to identify a cookbook I once had. Difficulty: I remember almost nothing about it. Ten years ago as a student, I had a vegetarian cookbook that I really liked, but which got accidentally left behind when I graduated. Unfortunately, I remember next to nothing about it. It was bought in the UK, and I do remember that the author was female, and had an Italian-sounding name (her first name possibly started with an O?). A lot of the recipes in it were Italian, but the cookbook itself was not explicitly so. It was meant as a fairly introductory vegetarian cookbook, and two of the recipes that I remember were definitely in there were for spinach gnocchi and apple cake.
Thanks - I know it's a very long shot!!

Vegetarian cookbooks?

R a c h e l — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:50:35 -0800

I'd like to suggestions for 1-2 interesting (not necessarily exhaustive) cookbooks that feature vegetables/beans prominently with gorgeous photography that I can work through this summer and next year. I'm a college student, and a year of unlimited dining hall food (most of which has been vegan) opened my eyes to a lot of new good food, as well as the bad decisions I tend to make. This summer and next year, I will have a kitchen and would like to eat less prepared food and do more weekend cooking and things to feed myself well.

I would like to make myself work through a cookbook or two to make myself try things I wouldn't ordinarily - I have how to cook everything and such at my disposal already, so I'd like something more limited in scope and interesting. Various ethnic cookbooks are generally good, so long as they aren't meat-centric. Right now, I eat almost entirely vegetarian and try to limit dairy, eggs, white flour/sugar and soy protein (the last one is totally irrational I know) - so veggies, whole grains, and beans feature prominently in my diet.

Basically, I'd like a more limited version of Aromas of Aleppo (so highly recommended!). Visual appeal is a huge plus.

Thanks so much for your suggestions!

Help me find a vegetarian "Cook's Illustrated" cookbook!

Mr. Papagiorgio — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:43:19 -0800

Does a vegetarian “cook’s illustrated” book exist? Recipes that I can follow exactly with guaranteed results. Help my head stop spinning in deciding between Deborah Madison, Madhur Jaffrey, Moosewood, etc. Personal experience with these authors appreciated. I am having trouble deciding on purchasing ~2 of the following books after reading the amazon reviews. I want a pescatarian friendly cookbook book where:
-I can follow the recipe exactly with great results like I get with Cook's Illustrated
-Relatively fast recipes suitable for weeknight cooking
-Good flavorful food every time! Some of the reviews cite bland tasting, or not that great of food. I hate spending the time and resources in cooking only to get a dud. With Cooks Illustrated even a dud is pretty good.

Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
Vegetarian Planet

Other Recommendations???

Vegetarian cookbook recommendations sought!

Phire — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:22:19 -0800

Give me your favourite vegetarian cookbook that has illustrations of simple but delicious meals, and offers the nutritional information for each meal. I'm starting to cook by recipe, rather than throwing anything I have in the kitchen into a pot and improvising. At the same time, I'm trying to decrease on the amount of meat I have on my diet. Though there are lots of awesome websites with an abundance of information on cooking veggies, I find the wealth of information makes it hard to find one starting point. So I'm asking for your recommendations for a vegetarian cookbook with the following criteria:

Simple meals: I really like the concept of the Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourment, which restricts each meal to 5 ingredients or less. I'm not terribly fussy about an absolute limitation on number of ingredients, but simple to make would be good - I'm pretty pressed for time. Michael Smith's Best of Chef at Home is a good standard for how simple I'd like the instructions and prep to be.

Nutritional information: Rather than laboriously looking up every ingredient online myself and then calculating the portions, I would prefer if the book listed these for me. This is totally essential.

Illustrations: These are more or less optional, but pretty pictures totally motivate me to cook.

Optional: This is totally nitpicky, but if that book only focused on cooking actual meals rather than desserts/drinks, that'd be great, too. I drink water and eat fruit, and having a book that spends 1/5 of its real estate on smoothies and cakes that I won't be making seems like a bit of a waste.

Does my dream cookbook exist? Thanks in advance for any help!

Vegetarian cookbooks?

Succa — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:30:44 -0800

Vegetarian cookbook recommendations? I'm looking to buy one as a gift for an aspiring meat-spurner who doesn't have much cooking experience. If possible, I'd like a more pragmatic book that focuses on easing the entry into a vegetarian lifestyle, rather than an emphasis on high-end cuisine.