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Summary: great!
Review: A few months ago I was a total 'newcomer' to the world of vegetarian, vegan and macrobiotic cooking. The whole idea of starting on this new culinary journey was very overwhelming. Now, thanks to this wonderful book from Peter Berley I can say that this culinary journey is turning out to be spectacular and is opening up some amazing new paths into some of the most delicious foods out there that really need to be investigated by any serious cook - be it vegetarian or carnivorous. Peter's recipes very easy to follow. The diagrams and explanations of how to prepare food are wonderful, simple and uncluttered. EVERYTHING that I have made out of this book has been a success. Peter has a knack of adding that certain 'je ne sais quoi' to recipes to make them taste totally yummy. You'll want to make it again and again. If you are looking for the ultimate vegetarian cookbook, then look no further. You won't be disappointed! IT'S BRILLIANT!
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Summary: Brilliant and Realistic - the Ultimate Vegetarian Cookbook!
Review: A few months ago I was a total 'newcomer' to the world of vegetarian, vegan and macrobiotic cooking. The whole idea of starting on this new culinary journey was very overwhelming. Now, thanks to this wonderful book from Peter Berley I can say that this culinary journey is turning out to be spectacular and is opening up some amazing new paths into some of the most delicious foods out there that really need to be investigated by any serious cook - be it vegetarian or carnivorous. Peter's recipes very easy to follow. The diagrams and explanations of how to prepare food are wonderful, simple and uncluttered. EVERYTHING that I have made out of this book has been a success. Peter has a knack of adding that certain 'je ne sais quoi' to recipes to make them taste totally yummy. You'll want to make it again and again. If you are looking for the ultimate vegetarian cookbook, then look no further. You won't be disappointed! IT'S BRILLIANT!
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Summary: Just the right amount of detail
Review: As someone who is not trained but is also not afraid to spend the day in the kitchen attempting to make something good or learn some new chemistry techniques along the way this book was a perfect fit. I basically read it straight through as a textbook. There is a very informative intro to each chapter that provides some background info as well as information on techniques and ingredients. There are very few general public kitchen books that have given me this amount of useful information in such little time. I imagine it would be great for vegetarian cooking class. For example you learn how to make your own seitan as well as create a starter for making your sourdough bread. The recipes are all keepers and probably worth the price alone. I'm eating the summer miso now, had some carmelized fennel earlier and just finished a batch of the refried beans which will last me all week. Everything i've made so far i'll keep making over and over again. My only issue with the book is the index should be more fleshed out. There is nothing worse than trying to find something in a cookbook with chipotle paste all over your hands. #;@]
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Summary: A truly inspirational book... a pleasure to read and use
Review: I am a non-vegetarian living in a co-op that requires all shared meals to be vegetarian. I found this book on sale at Sur La Table, and bought it to provide me with more ideas for the dinners I cook for my house. After the first few meals that I made that included 2-3 different recipes from this book, it quickly became my FAVORITE cookbook (all genres). I now select this book more often than any other for my house and other dinner parties with non-vegetarian friends. The flavors are rich, the combinations are unique and work very well, and the instructions are easy to follow and provide you with all the info you need, even if you're not a seasoned macrobiotic chef. I give this book a HUGE "thumbs up"! (Some favorites: Creamy Garlic Miso Salad Dressing, Three Sisters Stew (beans, corn dumplings, and winter squash with toasted pumpkin seeds), Eggplant and Seitan Falafel).
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Summary: A truly inspirational book... a pleasure to read and use
Review: I am a non-vegetarian living in a co-op that requires all shared meals to be vegetarian. I found this book on sale at Sur La Table, and bought it to provide me with more ideas for the dinners I cook for my house. After the first few meals that I made that included 2-3 different recipes from this book, it quickly became my FAVORITE cookbook (all genres). I now select this book more often than any other for my house and other dinner parties with non-vegetarian friends. The flavors are rich, the combinations are unique and work very well, and the instructions are easy to follow and provide you with all the info you need, even if you're not a seasoned macrobiotic chef. I give this book a HUGE "thumbs up"! (Some favorites: Creamy Garlic Miso Salad Dressing, Three Sisters Stew (beans, corn dumplings, and winter squash with toasted pumpkin seeds), Eggplant and Seitan Falafel).
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Summary: Excellent Teacher, Excellent Book!
Review: I have taken cooking classes from Peter Berley, and I anxiously awaited the release of this cookbook. All of his recipes are easy to follow and absolutely DIVINE! I do most of my cooking without the help of cookbooks, but Peter Berley's Modern Vegetarian Kitchen is a "must have", even for me!
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Summary: great!
Review: i'm chef too and this is one of best books and best recepies i ever tried
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Summary: A Culinary Masterpiece
Review: If you are fortunate enough to have tasted Peter Berley's masterful creations at New York's Angelica Kitchen, then this book will enable you to step into the chef's shoes and create hundreds of them on your own. If you've never been to Angelica Kitchen (now or during the 7 years when Peter was executive chef), then this book will be a revelation -- a truly inspired, lucid, and masterful handbook for preparing what is arguably the best-tasting, healthiest cuisine in the world. While many vegetarian cookbooks (and most vegetarian restaurants) seem stuck in a 1970's time-warp, Peter has created a cuisine which is truly modern, because it is so far ahead of most anything currently practiced -- yet at the same time is accessible, sensible, and practical. The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen is a must-have for any level of cooking skill, and for any kitchen (vegan, vegetarian or not). My only regret is that Amazon's rating system has a maximum of 5 stars.
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Summary: This is one of the finest works on Vegetarian cooking ever.
Review: Peter Berley's book is an extremely informative, accurate and thorough body of work. At a time when the market is overrun with so many bogus coookbooks, Peter's book stands apart as a "must have" for any Kitchen library. Peter treats Vegetarian and Vegan Cuisine with the respect and reverence it deserves. Like the title denotes, everything about this work is Modern: from it's slick packaging and easy-to-read text, to its no-nonsense prose and enlightened cooking techniques. Berley's book is more than just a collection of incredible recipes; it is a "how-to" guide on cooking that will appeal to established, professional chefs as well as the "weekend kitchen warrior". I am sure that it will serve as a milestone work for Vegetarians and Vegans, but should also impress even the most non-repentent of carnivores. For Vegetarian Chefs it is almost on par with, dare I say, Saulnier's Le Repertoire de La Cuisine. I consider myself qualified enough to make these comments because I worked under Peter Berley for 2 years and I have personally cooked, tested, tasted, experimented with and ingested just about everything in the book. It is a SLAM DUNK!
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Summary: This cookbook changed my life.
Review: Peter Berley, through this book has taught me to have a great respect and love for food and the art of cooking. It has dramatically changed my life. I have been a vegetarian for nearly all of my life, but not very well educated culinary-wise. None of my other cookbooks have ever motivated me to do the best I can. You feel like you have a teacher and friend with you in the kitchen since every recipe comes with helpful hints and interesting stories of how he created them. My friends and family now think I am a goddess. This is the first of Peter Berley's cookbooks that I bought. The second one is as amazing.
Food is everything; it's the source of a great life, of happiness and health. My children (4 and 2) eat everything with a great appetite. So it's also a gift to them.
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