The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook: Your Guide to the Best Foods on Earth

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More than six hundred low-fat, vegetarian recipes are accompanied by hundreds of illustrations, menu suggestions to suit a variety of dietary needs, advice on reading nutritional labels, storage and shopping tips, and a guide to kitchen equipment and utensils. 35,000 first printing…. More >>

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5 Responses to “The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook: Your Guide to the Best Foods on Earth”

1. Comment by Drea Beth

   This may be a very essential book for hard core cooks who have a lot of money to buy the grocery’s needed. I read it and made one recipe from it. The book has been sitting on my shelf ever sence. There are many other, books out there that are better then this one.
   Rating: 2 / 5

2. Comment by Pete

   This book is not a vegetarian cook book it is a weight loss book that takes great dishes and then removes all the fat and spice until they taste like low sodium card board. Diana Shaw authors this book as one of those naive middle aged ladies who assumes if you are a vegetarian you are on a weight loss diet. Her refusal to use the words cream, cheese (other then cottage) and butter, other than to scold the use of these ingredients, and her annoying placement of “nonfat” in front of the word yogurt made me draw a habit and a ruler over her book jacket photo. The only 2 reasons you should buy this book are A) to deprive yourself of real food in an effort to lose weight or B) to avoid having to buy spices, because she uses close to none. If you want a good veggie cookbook stick to the Moosewood series or Madhur Jaffrey or any thing other than this book.
   Rating: 1 / 5

3. Comment by K. Zavarin

   Pretty thorough info on a variety of grains/vegetables; however, I completely agree with earlier reviewers. Some major recipe omissions in the soybean category, frugal with spices, and really opinionated — e.g., she ruthlessly “disses” Quinoa, which is very nutritious and, in my opinion and that of many others, tastes great.

   Is it my imagination, or are the recipes predominantly Western European?
   Rating: 3 / 5

4. Comment by Virginie

   I am no hardcore vegetarian but do enjoy meatless meals. I love cooking and experimenting different foods. I particularly enjoy dishes that include beans, tofu and grains (as in, I’m not a huge fan of having to eat a big platter of steamed broccoli and carrots for dinner…) Well,I have to say that I was rather disappointed in this “essential” vegetarian cookbook, for it almost contains none of those recipes I was hoping for! Mostly she introduces “weird” meals that require mail-ordered foods. Well, not too handy if you ask me! I have however tried a few recipes, mainly muffins (very nutritious and healthy) but all the recipes seem faulty…! I am an experimented cook and all I’ve tried to bake in this book so far did not turned out. I leave muffins and breads in the oven for hours and they do not cook in the centre etc. Have those recipes ever been tested??? This being said, I have to say that few cookbooks offer such appealing descriptions (too bad the actual recipes don’t match the mouth watering introductions) and such complete nutritional information. If you think you were a bunny in a past life and don’t care what your food tastes like, then this might be great for you. As for me, this book is on its way to a charity!
   Rating: 2 / 5

5. Comment by EAS

   You don’t have to be a vegetarian to enjoy the recipes in this cookbook, or an expert chef to make them. I started at the front and cooked my way through it. My wife (who IS a vegetarian) loved everything that came out of the kitchen.
   Rating: 5 / 5