Synopses & Reviews
Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, was founded in 1973 and showed America a naturally-delicious way of cooking dinner with scrumptious soups, satisfying sandwiches, warming casseroles, zesty entrees, spiffy salads and divine desserts.
To celebrate their fortieth anniversary, The Moosewood Collective has assembled, updated and completely revised 250 of the most requested Moosewood Restaurant recipes to reflect the way we eat today. The result is Moosewood Restaurant Favorites, a cookbook filled with recipes that are increasingly vegan, gluten-free and benefit from the flavors of fresh herbs, the sheer variety of new vegetable strains and the wholesome goodness of newly-cultivated grains.
The recipes are easily to make and, just as Moosewood Restaurant remains today, naturally-delicious. Including Moosewood Restaurant's basic natural-cooking techniques for a variety of foundational kitchen tasks like working with tofu, cooking grains properly, assuring success with vegan baked-goods and a variety of other basic kitchen tools, Moosewood Restaurant Favorites is the next classic book in a long line of books cherished by readers for years.
Review
“When seeking a marker of the changes in the cookbook market over the last 40 years, one need look no further than Ithaca, New York.” - Publishers Weekly
“Well-done, Moosewood! You have become a beloved part of American cultural history and morphed into a truly national institution that most of us know through the cookbooks that have emerged. One after the other, those enticing combinations of delicious recipes and lively prose have borne witness to Moosewoods most compelling idea: “community” - that harmonious feeling among a group of people that takes place in the kitchen and at the table as we share a commitment to good food and being together. Moosewood Restaurant Favorites will introduce a new generation to a beloved institution and call up happy memories of meals and recipes over the years.”- Nancy Harmon Jenkins, author of The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, The Essential Mediterranean and many others
“As any experienced cook knows, extracting the savor of vegetables, completely without meat, presents its own special difficulties. Fortunately, the Moosewood collective has succeeded in meeting those challenges and produced a fine book of direct and simple recipes, each with its own savory twists. This thorough book will delight vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike and will become a cornerstone in any cooks library. In short, Moosewood has elevated meatless cooking to the level of great cuisine and artfully showcases vegetarian cooking at its finest.”- James Peterson, author of 15 cookbooks and winner of 7 James Beard Awards
About the Author
The Moosewood Collective has nineteen members who share responsibilities and participate in the various jobs necessary to run what has grown from a very small natural foods restaurant to a larger and more diversified company. Some members have worked for the restaurant since it was founded in 1973.