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Summary: The illustrations are as wonderful as the recipes!
Review: A fabulous cookbook that takes you from growing, purchasing, and storing vegetables to preparing and eating them! How about a new "Chez Panisse Fruits"?
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Summary: Wonderfully comprehensive tome on vegetables
Review: Although this book is filled with wonderful information on vegetables and their proper preparation, has there ever been a book with a lower recipe-to-text ratio? Even if you enjoy Alice Waters' predictable discussions of eating what's locally available (has she ever had anything else to say?), you might want more actual recipes before plunking down the price of this tome.
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Summary: farmers market confidence!
Review: Do you find yourself gazing at kale while filling your basket with broccoli and carrots? Then this is the book for you! Be bold in a farmers market, buy the kale or any other unfamiliar vegetable and cook it with confidence! This book tells you all about a vegetable, when it is in season, what to do with it in general and in various stages of "ripeness" and gives you recipies to try it in. A wonderful cooking encyclopedia of vegetables.
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Summary: Love it
Review: I bought this book right before Thanksgiving. It IS great. The recipes are well written and the drawings add a playful touch. But the best is the pumpkin soup recipe. It's so easy to make. I made it for my family and all you could hear were the spoons clinking against the bottom of the bowl, and everyone asked for seconds. It was more of a hit than the turkey.
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Summary: It seems so simple when you're done
Review: I love this book. Much of what it describes seems so intuitive when you're finished: buy it locally, cook it simply, and enjoy it when it's in season. And there's NOTHING in this cookbook that isn't a breeze to cook. She's got her finger on it with quantities like a "splash of water," or " a good handful" of parsley, because that's how real cooks cook. I have made about 40 of the recipes out of this book, and there isn't one that I wouldn't make again. My only carp? I wish there were more recipes
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Summary: It seems so simple when you're done
Review: I love this book. Much of what it describes seems so intuitive when you're finished: buy it locally, cook it simply, and enjoy it when it's in season. And there's NOTHING in this cookbook that isn't a breeze to cook. She's got her finger on it with quantities like a "splash of water," or " a good handful" of parsley, because that's how real cooks cook. I have made about 40 of the recipes out of this book, and there isn't one that I wouldn't make again. My only carp? I wish there were more recipes
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Summary: Thoroughly comprehensive for lovers of cooking
Review: If you love to cook, and you love vegetables, you need this cookbook. It includes all of the details that so many other cookbooks leave out -- how to tell the good from the bad with every vegetable out there, when to buy each one for optimal flavor, how to store them before you use them, and exactly how to treat them in your recipes.The recipes themselves range from simple and elegant to involved and indulgent -- there are enough of them that I always find something exciting to cook, regardless of how much effort I want to put into my meal on that particular day. Truly the best thing about this book is that it always inspires me to try new vegetables or to cook old staples in new ways -- since Alice Waters covers all of the details, she completely demystifies any foods that you might not otherwise want to try cooking. If you love to cook, you'll love this book.
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Summary: Most excellent
Review: One of the best vegetarian cookbook ever. About all recipes I tried were wonderful.
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Summary: Alice Waters is a great cookbook author
Review: She has such an unassuming style and such a great depth of knowlege of her subject that I essentially read the entire thing in a couple of evenings to my great joy and enlightenment.
I have a bunch of canning/preserving books, but Alices pickle recipe is so simple, easy to follow and tasty, that I always use it now. I also have Green on Greens which is an earlier and very similar book. I like it, and it has more recipes, but Chez Panisse Vegetables is more interesting and the recipes are always a hit.
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Summary: Makes me proud to be an American!
Review: The fact that Alice survives, and even thrives, should be encouragement for us all. She loves food a lot more than the CEO of Philip Morris and personally I think we'd all be a lot better off if we listened to her.
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