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 enlarge | Authors: Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 581
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 156924264X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781569242643
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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 fabulous August 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
for non vegans, my mom and I are having a blast with the book. it's easy to use, simple. totally user friendly.
Wonderful Cookbook! August 12, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian (but I don't each much meat or dairy,) but I love this cookbook!
The book is wonderful--entertaining, educational and, most importantly, it is filled with glorious and interesting recipes with flavors from around the world.
This book is great for beginning and advanced vegan cooks. For beginners, the book includes basics for what food to stock in your pantry, kitchen equipment, cooking and prepping terminology. The book also includes a helpful section on how to prepare vegetables, grains and beans by grilling, roasting and steaming.
The recipes are the crux of the book and they are great! Full of flavor dishes like portobella salad with spicy mustard dressing, tomato rice soup with roasted garlic and navy beans, marzana chili verde, spinach linguine with basil and cilantro pesto and artichokes and spicy tempeh and broccoli rabe with rotelle are just a few of the recipes I've tried and love.
Veganomicon also contains many terrific tips and great comments by the authors.
Highly recommend for all cooks!
Vegan or Not, Try this cookbook! August 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When we purchased this cookbook, my wife was a vegetarian, and I was your standard omnivore. I do all the cooking in the house, and thought I would purchase this book to expand our horizons. Wow, great recipes, very detailed instructions and some valuable basic cooking information that has been helpful in developing my skills in the kitchen. Since buying the book, I am now a devoted vegetarian and have not looked back. We use the book for basic recipe structure, and then either leave the recipe as vegan or add some extra items that render it vegetarian. Either way, amazing! Give the book a shot, you won't regret it.
 For gourmet vegans only August 7, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was disappointed, primarily because I'm a new Vegan, and a busy mom. If I was young, single and hip (and living in New York City) I would probably have loved this book. I did get some great information from the first few chapters about Vegan staples and how to prepare vegetables, etc. The book also provides some good background information about "alternative" grains like millet and quinoa. Other than that I've made 1 recipe. This is gourmet cooking for the long time Vegan who's looking to add some variety or wants to cook for other people and impress them with amazing dishes. In fairness, it looks like many of the dishes would be fantastic is that's what you're looking for. Be prepared to visit several specialty stores (again, fine if you're in NYC, impossible if you're in rural America) and spend a lot of time. "Quick recipes" are marked with a special symbol when they take less than 45 minutes. As a mother of a young child I don't spend that much time cooking dinner unless it's Thanksgiving. In addition, much of the humor is aimed at people who live in NYC (which I have visited many times. It's the best city in the world, and in my opinon has the friendliest people - if that's a shocker you haven't spent enough time there. Go Yankees!) or people who read the first book and care about what Isa's grandmother thinks. It's a lovely book, but only for a limited audience.
Eat this -- you'll like it July 29, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had this book for a couple of weeks, and I kept flipping through it, unsure of what to make. I'm a vegetarian, but not a vegan, and this is my first vegan cookbook. Perhaps subsequently, it was the first time I realized that you can actually *make* seitan, as opposed to buying it. Once I saw that, I ordered the few ingredients necessary to make it, and then purchased the other ingredients needed to complete the seitan picatta recipe. I spent three hours last night making first the seitan, and then the seitan picatta. Some might say that's too time consuming, but I enjoyed the process. Also, it wouldn't have taken nearly as long if I'd made the seitan ahead of time.
Anyway, I don't know what made me pick picatta as the first recipe to try, seeing as how I'm not a huge fan of shallots or capers, and I hate olives. But...it was OUT OF THIS WORLD! The combination of homemade seitan, breaded and panfried, and then this sauce...this amazing sauce! Put a bunch of things together that I don't like, and they somehow make something I fell in love with -- that's a magical book. :) I would completely and unreservedly make this recipe for a meat-eater, fully expecting them to love it, too.
I can't wait to try other recipes. Don't be intimidated by the recipes that seem a little complicated or foreign, just give them a try. Also, if you're someone who actually enjoys the process of cooking (or wants to) as opposed to someone who tries to slam out meals quickly in order to be done with it, that's a further recommendation for Veganomicon. I really can't say enough wonderful things about this amazing book.
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