A wonderful, timeless, fast-food sort of read. It's quick, engaging, and will make you laugh out loud on the bus. Has a nice culinary revenge scene at the end too. Not the genre that genre that includes recipes, but does get your appetite up.
The Artful Vegan is a refreshing take on the realm of vegan cooking. Full of beautiful pictures; gourmet techniques and artful presentation are stressed throughout its pages. Each recipe even contains an additional section with plating instructions to help bring a restaurant like feel to your creation.
While inspiring, these recipes aren't for a casual bite at home. These meals often contain more than 5 separate components to assemble the dish. As such, these recipes are perfect for wow factor consumption.
Without being a vegan, I found the recipes especially innovative. This cookbook inspired me to cook with cocoa butter, hemp seeds, and agave nectar for the first time. I even made seitan from scratch! The multi-layered plating instructions have also introduced me to flavor combinations that I now can't live without (oyster mushrooms, carrots and sesame)!
Recommended for gourmands seeking inspiration beyond the basics of vegan cooking.
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Passion, pretty pictures and perfected recipes... Bittersweet is a masterfully produced chocolate cookbook. Each chapter contains a discussion on aspects of creating the recipes that lend interesting background to the desserts themselves (ex: discussion on refrigerating brownie batter several hours before cooking to deepen the resulting flavors).
Pairing chocolate with white pepper, creating cream free mousse, and pairing cocoa nibs with asparagus are some of the specialty recipes that elevate this cookbook beyond your typical set of chocolate recipes.
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How to Cook a Tart by Nina Killham
McAuliflower, September 3, 2008
A wonderful, timeless, fast-food sort of read. It's quick, engaging, and will make you laugh out loud on the bus. Has a nice culinary revenge scene at the end too. Not the genre that genre that includes recipes, but does get your appetite up.Best Food Writing 2006 (Best Food Writing) by Holly Hughes
McAuliflower, November 16, 2006
I'm confused- how can this be the best food writing of 2006 if the book was only published in Oct 2006?
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The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant by Eric Tucker
McAuliflower, November 12, 2006
The Artful Vegan is a refreshing take on the realm of vegan cooking. Full of beautiful pictures; gourmet techniques and artful presentation are stressed throughout its pages. Each recipe even contains an additional section with plating instructions to help bring a restaurant like feel to your creation.While inspiring, these recipes aren't for a casual bite at home. These meals often contain more than 5 separate components to assemble the dish. As such, these recipes are perfect for wow factor consumption.
Without being a vegan, I found the recipes especially innovative. This cookbook inspired me to cook with cocoa butter, hemp seeds, and agave nectar for the first time. I even made seitan from scratch! The multi-layered plating instructions have also introduced me to flavor combinations that I now can't live without (oyster mushrooms, carrots and sesame)!
Recommended for gourmands seeking inspiration beyond the basics of vegan cooking.
(6 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)
Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate by Alice Medrich
McAuliflower, November 12, 2006
Passion, pretty pictures and perfected recipes... Bittersweet is a masterfully produced chocolate cookbook. Each chapter contains a discussion on aspects of creating the recipes that lend interesting background to the desserts themselves (ex: discussion on refrigerating brownie batter several hours before cooking to deepen the resulting flavors).Pairing chocolate with white pepper, creating cream free mousse, and pairing cocoa nibs with asparagus are some of the specialty recipes that elevate this cookbook beyond your typical set of chocolate recipes.
(9 of 13 readers found this comment helpful)