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(More customer reviews)I consider this an "advanced" cookbook. If you're a seasoned vegetarian & are looking for new, exciting dishes, then this may be a five-star book for you. If you're just beginning vegetarian cooking, or if you're looking for quick, easy vegetarian recipes, you may find this book somewhat daunting.
For example, though the book provides a brief glossary of foods you'll encounter in the recipes (like tofu, tempeh, fillo pastry, etc.), I would've appreciated some drawings or pictures or perhaps a little more explanation and encouragement regarding these uncommon foods. I'm a pretty experienced cook and yet I was still a little intimidated, charging blindly into soy proteins & foreign foods like this.
In addtion, many of the "simple" stews and casseroles described depend on one of the book's vegetarian stocks that require 4 hours' simmering time. Furthermore, many of the recipes ask for hard-to-find ingredients like "Mesquite-flavored cooking spray," "broccoflower florets," "sprouted wheat berries," "cactus paddles," and "fat-free half-and-half."
Also, I didn't care for the way the book was organized. As with the veggie broths, many recipes ask for ingredients like smoked tofu, potato pizza crust, sun-dried tomato pesto, chorizo, mushroom gravy, tortilla sauce, etc. that require you to flip to another recipe and take additional time to prepare.
Finally, recipes for condiments or accompanyments are tacked onto entre recipes, rather than given their own chapter. Subsequently, it may be hard to locate these recipes weeks or months later, when you want to use a particular sauce or chutney apart from the entre it was recommended for.
Complications aside, this book certainly does provide a wealth of vegetarian recipes that are both interesting and inspiring. I found it useful, though, to first learn about vegetarian cooking from a more basic cookbook, and now I return to 1001 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes when I'm tired of the usual veggie fare.
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