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Title: The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison, Edward Espe Brown, Deborah Madison ISBN: 0-7679-0823-6 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The best, but complex
Comment: This is one of those rare cookbooks that is not only a collection of recipes, but that actually teaches us a broader lesson; in this case, that vegetarian food can be elegant.
I was a vegetarian for 12 years (fell from grace a few years ago) and found that most vegetarian cookbooks were way too heavy on the here's-a-plate-of-millet-with-raw-veggies. There seems to be a defiant attitude that the vegetables and grains should have enough taste for you. They lived up to all the stereotypes of vegetarian food. The next best thing were the Moosewood cookbooks, which were sort of hippy-dippy in approach, (and the later of which were decidedly uneven) but at least there was not an aversion to herbs.
The Greens cookbook offers a wide range of foods that are beautiful and sophisticated: e.g., Spinach soup with Indian spices, Cannelloni with greens and walnut sauce, artichoke and fennel stew covered with a pastry.
These are not recipes you will make every day, but it is a great resource to have at home.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not the right cookbook for me
Comment: I'm sure every recipe in this cookbook is delicious, but I seldom use it and regret buying it. This would be a good book for people who see cooking as a hobby: something they do occasionally, for fun, without worrying about time, convenience, health or expense. For everyday cooking, it's pretty much useless. The recipes are all quite time-consuming and complicated, requiring, for instance, special stock which must be homemade and for which store-bought substitutes would be unacceptable. Lots of the recipes are heavy on the butter and cream, which is fine for special occasions but not the way I want to cook on a regular basis.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for special-occasion recipes. Everything I've cooked out of it has turned out great, and I would definately consult it for dinner parties or similar occasions. But I don't think it will be a particularly useful cookbook for busy people trying to eat in a reasonably healthy manner.
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't try this at home!
Comment: The Greens restaurant in San Francisco was one of the greatest things ever to come along for vegetarians. A true gourmet dining experience where not even the most die-hard meat eater would have a bad experience. Nothing earthy-crunchy here.
That said, my title says it all -- don't try this at home. At least not unless you are an extremely experienced cook with lots of time and patience. The ingredients are difficult to work with and the instructions are given only with using them completely from scratch with fancy equipment, for instance, grinding whole spices in a spice mill. No powdered spice equivalents are given. Instructions seem simple, e.g., peel the winter squash and dice it into one-inch cubes, but until you have tried to peel and work with winter squash, you don't realize how difficult and time-consuming it is. I thought I was going to end up in the E.R.
The book also doesn't give you any idea of prep and cooking time. I've started out in the afternoon making a meal out of the most uncomplicated sounding receipes in the book, so I'd have plenty of time to relax before dinner, only to find myself still working on the meal at eleven p.m. And most of the recipes are more complicated.
Frankly, the results aren't worth the bother. The resulting food is, for the most part, good, but not great. It may be worth it to you if you really love to cook and have lots of spare time, but for the rest of us, there are books on the market that are more helpful and lead to quicker meals that are just as tasty. This one is strictly for the pros.
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Title: Fields of Greens : New Vegetarian Recipes From The Celebrated Greens Restaurant by Anne Somerville ISBN: 0553091395 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison ISBN: 0767900146 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Savory Way by Deborah Madison ISBN: 0767901665 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: This Can't Be Tofu! : 75 Recipes to Cook Something You Never Thought You Would--and Love Every Bite by Deborah Madison ISBN: 0767904192 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Everyday Greens: Home Cooking from Greens, the Celebrated Vegetarian Restaurant by Annie Somerville, Mayumi Oda ISBN: 0743216253 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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