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 enlarge | Author: Donna Klein
Publisher: HP Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 4660
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1557883599
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636091822
EAN: 9781557883599
ASIN: 1557883599
Publication Date: May 1, 2001
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 vive le met! February 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent recipes. I'm new at vegetanarianism, and this book to taking me along way on the route of success! The mushroom spinach is the best ever and the focacia crust pizza is absolutely to die for!!!! chaio!
 Poorly laid out January 8, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I thought this book was too confusing and not laid out very well ~~~2 columns on each page and the recipes not divided by the pages and no pictures. I gave the book to my sister. Maybe I'm just simple minded and don't want to work too hard to figure out what the recipes are saying. Good luck and hope you enjoy the book if you buy it.
Fantastic mediterrean food! January 3, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love the cuisines of the Mediterranean, but have recently become vegan, and was really missing my cheeses and dishes I made with them. This cookbook cured my ills, and opened up an entire new way of thinking for me. The joy of NO MEAT REPLACERS! NO TOFU! Delicious vegan meals that are easy to make and taste fantastic. I've tried about 30% of the recipes since I purchased this book in June, and my meat-eating husband loves them too. I love the way the author groups meal suggestions in the back of the book by season and number of servings. Our favorite recipe so far is for the amazingly simple but unbelievably good tomato and basil soup. Takes barely any time to make, and you can't imagine how good it is unless you try it. I think the author has a real instinct for using herbs to enhance the flavors of the ingredients, and I would recommend this book to everyone, vegan or not. Thanks, Donna Klein!
A wonderful book..... December 26, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great book, filled with wonderful recipes. I should mention that I am not vegan, or even a vegetarian, but I do appreciate good vegetable and grain-based dishes. For instance, a fresh tomato sauce (in the SUMMER, and with Parmigiano-Reggiano) on angel hair....so simple, and so good. This is a vegan cookbook filled with recipes that are vegan to begin with. Too often, these types of cookbooks try to replicate animal-based dishes and tell you they taste as good as the "real thing".......they don't.
This book is anything but...and the recipes are great. They call to mind the sun-drenched regions of the Mediterranean Sea, rife with juicy, fleshy tomatoes, emerald-green fruity olive oils (and olives themselves) beautiful purple eggplants as tasty are they are gorgeous, tender, verdant leaves of spinach and fragrantly delightful herbs to name a very few. Included also are many recipes using legumes, taking them from ordinary belly-filler to culinary delight. And despite what some woefully under-read people may say, it is indeed, healthy. Americans are convinced fat or carbs or some other maligned macro-nutrient of the week is going to make them fat and unhealty...which is stupid, considering the rest of the world is just healthier than Americans eating higher fat foods. (French Paradox, anyone? The French eat more butterfat than Americans and suffer a fraction of the obesity and heart disease Americans do.....look it up, precious.)So, eat your veggies with a healthy dose of olive oil, just eat a reasonable portion(with exercise of course.....being sedentary isn't good for anyone) and don't let moronic Puritanical values tell you that if it tastes good, it must be bad. As a matter of fact, a dish higer in fat requires a smaller portion and keeps you full longer......but, I digress....
In short, I do love the book, despite the fact that I love my meat, cheese and eggs. If you want to add more plant-based foods to your diet, this is a great place to start.
 A very good vegan cookbook! October 15, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I picked this book up at the library and liked it so much that I bought it. The recipe for Beans In A Bottle on page 162 is fabulous! I added cremini mushrooms sauteed in Earth Balance margarine and then glazed with a dry white wine to it after it was cooked, and it was a perfect lunch on toast--my coworkers are so envious of the lunches I bring to work, thanks to this book! Between this and the quiche recipe in The Garden of Vegan by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer, I've got LOTS of good stuff to eat!
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