If you are just looking to expand an omnivore's diet, however, or eat purely vegetarian, with dairy and eggs OK, this would be a great book for you. What Julia Child is to French cooking, Deborah Madison is to vegetarian cooking–a demystifier and definitive guide to the subject.

I'm going to buy my first CSA share next year, and after reading and cooking from this cookbook for the last six months, I feel fully-armed and ready to tackle whatever arrives. It's great not just for its delicious recipes, but also for all the straightforward information about vegetables of all kinds. Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. After her many years as a teacher and writer, s. The tenth anniversary edition of this landmark cookbook, with more than 325,000 copies in print, includes a new introduction from Deborah Madison, America’s leading authority on vegetarian cooking.What Julia Child is to French cooking, Deborah Madison is to vegetarian cooking—a demystifier and definitive guide to the subject. That's been w. This is the best cookbook I have ever used. I loved it, every twist and turn caught me by surprise!! Definitely a keeper!

Madison's joyful and free-spirited approach to cooking will send you into the kitchen with confidence and enthusiasm. There's a recipe for Thai Spicy noodles in here that is the bomb, but everything is great. the title says its for everyone but i feel like it didnt really appeal to me and every other Trans Fluid Octagon. It is also good for learning how to make simple things better than you probably learned how, such as boiling or poaching an egg. $28.21

The most useful part of it is the vegetable section, where each fruit or vegetable is listed in alphabetical order, and each section discusses choosing, storage, and preparation of the fruit or vegetable, and then follows with at least one very simple recipe (green beans with butter and basil), and then more complicated ones. This book is an intensive guide to vegetables.

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I'm no vegetarian, but I love this book.

I use the chapter on soups the most, because I do not really collect soup recipes. Recently read this cover to cover, making a list of recipes to try in the next few months. Originally published in 1997, Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone was both ahead of its time and an instant classic. Kids these days! Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone teaches readers how to build flavor into vegetable dishes, how to develop vegetable stocks, and how to choose, care for, and cook the many vegetables available to cooks today. At the heart of the book is the A-to-Z vegetable chapter, which describes the unique personalities of readily available vegetables, the sauces and seasonings that best complement them, and the simplest ways to prepare them.

But so many that involve animal products, especially cheese, which is much harder to replace than milk or yogurt. She has been called an expert on vegetarian cooking and her gourmet repertoire showcases fresh garden produce. However, it's not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who might ever feel the need to cook some vegetables (or grains, beans, and other non-meat foods). Don't get me wrong. But so many that involve animal products, especially cheese, which is much harder to replace than milk or yogurt.