1,000 Vegetarian Recipes

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Summary: The best Cookbook I've ever owned.
Review: 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes got me started cooking and I haven't stopped since. The difficulty with most cookbooks is that if you are a vegetarian you must seek and sort out the recipes which don't use some sort of animal flesh product. 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes makes it simple - every single recipe is meatless - therefore appropriate for my household. Carol Gelles also has a coded system for the different types of vegetarian diets (Lacto-Ovo, Lacto, Ovo and Vegan). She even includes a review of nearly every recipe and alternative ways of making them. I've gone from being a non cooking person to being known for my great talents in the kitchen. My secret being this one book! I'm planning to make every single recipe. I also recommend it to everyone I know. It's the best thing that ever happened to our kitchen.

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Summary: The best vegetarian book ever written
Review: Among the myriad of vegetarian cooking books, this one is the very best. Basic, interesting, well-written and comprehensive, every vegetarian, from the novice to the gourmet, should have this book on the shelf. Also a great gift.

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Summary: Single Guy Says YUM!
Review: As a single male living alone, my average meals usually consisted of hot dogs, corn chips and soda. Then I met this girl (a vegan). I soon found myself on the web looking for vegetarian recipes when Carol Gelles's book caught my eye. I liked the idea of having 1000 possibilities to woo my lady with. I first tried Springtime Pasta (page 191) A BIG HIT! Then I tried Mexicali Stew (page 142) it was VERY EASY! For desert, I tried the Apple-Strawberry Tart (page 524). It must have worked as we will be married in the fall! Thank you Carol Gelles! I look forward to trying many other tempting recipes in the future and hope to see more books from you soon.

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Summary: Should be called "1001 Cheese Recipes"
Review: Despite honors from Julia Childs and James Beard this book is lacking imagination and any commitment to vegetarian cooking. Everything tastes better with cheese (eggs and butter). Try making something delicious without it! Her comments on tofu and tempeh revealed that this author has little or no exposure to soy products and their preparation. Her vegan recipes were frighteningly colorless reenforcing the notion that vegetarian cooking is bland, flavorless and strange. Why not put a little cornmeal on that tempeh before frying it, Carroll? Her adaptations of standard college veggie cuisine like hummus and baba ganouji were flat and lacked any real effort to make them her own. All in all this author wracked her brain to come up with 1001 recipes and it shows!

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Summary: Truely fine recipies
Review: I bought this book recently and am very please with it. Great recipies, well organized, good illustrations. The food I've prepared from it has gotten me lots of compliments from both vegitarian and non-vegitarian friends.

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Summary: If you really cook, don't buy this book
Review: I bought this cookbook right after I was married to try to introduce my husband to vegetarian meals (Bratwurst Boy). I have been a *mostly* vegetarian for 11 years now. This cookbook has been used over and over again for the five years of our marriage, as can be seen by the stains on the pages. The recipes are easy to prepare, don't use too many ingredients, are full of flavor, and my husband LOVES them. And with so many recipes you don't have the same meal for about 6 months! There is a section showing different recipe combinations for formal/informal dinners, and a section that explains some of the more "unusual" ingredients (but can still be found in the grocery store). It's a great book--try it!! Your heart and body and taste buds will love you! And so will your husband!

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Summary: Delicious vegetarian cuisine!
Review: I bought this cookbook right after I was married to try to introduce my husband to vegetarian meals (Bratwurst Boy). I have been a *mostly* vegetarian for 11 years now. This cookbook has been used over and over again for the five years of our marriage, as can be seen by the stains on the pages. The recipes are easy to prepare, don't use too many ingredients, are full of flavor, and my husband LOVES them. And with so many recipes you don't have the same meal for about 6 months! There is a section showing different recipe combinations for formal/informal dinners, and a section that explains some of the more "unusual" ingredients (but can still be found in the grocery store). It's a great book--try it!! Your heart and body and taste buds will love you! And so will your husband!

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Summary: A fabulous cookbook!
Review: I found this cookbook about two years ago, shortly after I became a vegetarian. I have quite a few vegetarian cookbooks now, but this one is still my all-time favorite. Great variety of recipes, most of them quick and easy, though she also has many more elaborate dishes too. I can't say enough good things about this cookbook!

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Summary: Best Veggie Cookbook Out There
Review: I have bought a lot of other veggie cookbooks, most of which are sitting on my shelf collecting dust, but this one has got to be the BEST one I have ever used. My best friend, a chef, bought it for me one year for my birthday, and I have used it ever since. Every recipe has received rave reviews from my family and friends, and the bonus is that all of the recipes are so easy to follow. I've found with other veggie cookbooks, the recipes can get long and tedious, often involving hard to find ingredients. This cookbook has been a breath of fresh air for me as I expand my culinary horizons.

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Summary: Best Veggie Cookbook Out There
Review: I have bought a lot of other veggie cookbooks, most of which are sitting on my shelf collecting dust, but this one has got to be the BEST one I have ever used. My best friend, a chef, bought it for me one year for my birthday, and I have used it ever since. Every recipe has received rave reviews from my family and friends, and the bonus is that all of the recipes are so easy to follow. I've found with other veggie cookbooks, the recipes can get long and tedious, often involving hard to find ingredients. This cookbook has been a breath of fresh air for me as I expand my culinary horizons.