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Summary: Good recipes, bad theology
Review: I truly love to cook and was successful cooking recipes in the Joy of Cooking at age 10. I'm constantly searching for good ideas -- in magazines, books, and on TV. I've been working on "evolving" my approach to be more healthful, and found Kitchen In the Clouds to be a true inspiration! In addition to the easy and delicious recipes are wonderful words to raise your consciousness. Perhaps not for the jaded vegitarian, this book is definately nourishing for those cooks who know the most essential ingredient in every dish is love!
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Summary: An inspirational cookbook & "how to" guide for eating vegan.
Review: I wish I had "Kitchen in the Clouds" five years ago when my wife was near death with ovarian cancer and on hospice. It was then that we started a vegan (no animal products) diet. We credit her continuing survival to switching to a holistic lifestyle, including vegan eating. But that was quite difficult. Being meat and potatoes eaters all of our lives, we were hopelessly confused as to how to select and prepare vegan foods. Over time, we found some folks to help us...even hiring some to teach us vegan cooking. Given our experience, I'd say that "Kitchen in the Clouds" is the perfect book for those needing guidance for creating a healthy diet. The book is easy to read and beautifully written...almost spiritual in its sensitivity to personal health, the environment, and the ethics of eating vegan. And, it is packed with 300 pages of helpful and interesting information, including over 200 practical and easy to prepare recipes for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and dessert. The narrative portion of the book includes chapters on the rationale of eating vegan, using diet to detoxify and heal, cooking with herbs, the misconceptions of fat, protein and calcium, the politics of agribusiness, nutritional information and much more. I think the 50 page appendix alone is worth the price of the book. Here you'll find menu plans, shopping checklists, a glossary of ingredients and how to use them, food safety and storage ideas, internet, mail order, and newsletter contacts, and cooking tips, times, spice use and equivalents explained. I give this book my highest recommendation for those venturing into the, sometimes perplexing, world of vegan cooking.jaacee@mindspring
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Summary: If I had to own only one cookbook -- this would be it!
Review: Kitchen in the Clouds is an exceptionally beautiful cookbook and informative resource guide on vegan living. Inviting to read, with beautiful artwork found throughout, it is simply a feast for the mind, body and soul. The author, Karen Alexander, not only provides over 200 delicious recipes full of flavor, but a new model for optimal health. It is a book that you will want to sit down and read, and re-read--her writing is eloquent and inspiring. It was a powerful reminder to me that I can consciously choose health through my every day eating choices. Kitchen in the Clouds proves that vegan meals can be flavorful, appealing and satisfying--both my husband and six-year old son enjoy the recipes! Our family favorites include Perfect Pea Soup, Incredible Burritos, Pilgrim's Lentil Loaf, Baked Cauliflower and Chocolate Zucchini Brownies, to name a few. It's been great fun surprising our meat-eating friends with delicious meals they can't believe are vegan. It is quickly becoming the most used cookbook in my collection! This book is a must have if you want to restore your personal health and experience a vitality you never thought possible--with a side benefit of healing the planet, too. I have many friends I have shared it with who have purchased their own personal copy. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: A very good reason
Review: Kitchen in the Clouds is easy to use, and is filled with wisdom and wonderful recipes. I have tried over 25 of these recipes and haven't found any that my family and I didn't enjoy! If you're serious about eating healthy food that tastes good and learning more about how the foods we eat affect us, this is the book for you! I have given away over a dozen copies. People always ask where to get this book when I bring a dish to a potluck or my workplace. I never thought that eating this healthy could taste so good
and be so easy. Happy cooking and blessings to all!
Virginia
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Summary: If you want to get well
Review: This book saved my friend's life! Actually, eating vegan food is what seems to have sent her cancer into complete remission, but this book makes it so easy and enjoyable that it didn't seem like a sacrifice to her at all. In fact, her husband starting eating this way, and now a bunch of us are doing the same thing. No matter what diet fad comes and goes, the value of fruits and vegetables, grains and beans stays constant. This book is chock full of delicious recipes that are easy to make and SO GOOD. And, we're all glowing and getting thin! I can't recommend this book highly enough. What have you got to lose besides feeling sick and tired and fat? If you're already doing the Ornish or McDougall programs, this book will give you a lot more recipes to add to your collection and you'll be much happier with what you have to eat.
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Summary: Beautiful cookbook
Review: This is one of my favorite cookbooks - it has some philosophy in the beginning, words of wisdon to eat up, and delicious recipes. I've taken weeks at a time where all I cook from is this cookbook and it's terrific. Varied recipes, great combinations, nothing too tricky.
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Summary: Beautiful cookbook
Review: This is one of my favorite cookbooks - it has some philosophy in the beginning, words of wisdon to eat up, and delicious recipes. I've taken weeks at a time where all I cook from is this cookbook and it's terrific. Varied recipes, great combinations, nothing too tricky.
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Summary: Not an essential guidebook
Review: This is vegan food in the classic tradition: overly earnest, ascetically spiced, and aggressively promoting regularity. If your problem with food has always been that it's just too interesting, I recommend living out of this cookbook for a while. A health-promoting, high-fibre diet of lentil stews and loaves, varied by stewed chickpeas and perhaps the odd chickpea burger, will quickly cure you. The height of culinary adventure, to Ms Alexander, means a portobello mushroom, or "including the turnip" in one of her many almost indistinguishable stewed things. And let's not even discuss her "treats," which include heavy wholegrain muffins and heavy wholegrain loaves, all of which seem to contain banana. Healthy cooking is my thing; just about anything off my stove will be low-fat and high in fibre. And I like a banana as much as the next girl. However, there's no reason why "vegan" needs to mean this kind of earth-toned slop, interspersed, leave us not forget, with earnest essays about how improving one's diet improves one's soul. Granted, she's got rid of the high-fat truckloads of nuts and seeds and such that were typical of very early veg*n cooking, but other than that, we're still in the seventies here. If you long to recapture the memory of barefoot days slaving over a hot stove amidst the scent of patchouli, this may be the cookbook for you. Otherwise, there are many, many better ones. Not a keeper.
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