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Summary: New vegetarian cookbook is very user friendly
Review: Cooking Vegetarian by Vesanto Melina, R.D. and Joseph Forest is a very welcome addition to the top ten list of cookbooks every family, omnivore or vegetarian, should own. Easy to read and attractively designed, this specially bound paperback lies flat for ease of use when cooking. The book includes a 20 page section called Healthy, Delicious and Easy, a healthful nutrition primer that provides up-to-date information of use to everyone. There are over 150 recipes, half of them low fat and heart healthy (there's a separate list of these with the percentage of calories from fat and fat grams given). Although some of the recipes are time-honored classics, many are imaginative, creative and simple to prepare. A section of attractive color photographs includes step-by-step illustrations for making sushi. Cooking Vegetarian is a low-key, easy-going introduction to vegetarian cooking to go along with Melina's earlier classic, Becoming Vegetarian. It extols the pleasures of food and the joys of healthful living without upsetting those who choose to eat other ways and yet it may well serve as a eye-opening and non-threatening initiation to a healthier lifestyle.
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Summary: Healthy and delicious recipes
Review: Of the many vegetarian recipes books I own, this is the one I return to the most. The recipes are delicious, turn out well consistently and have ingredients that I would normally have on hand. The nutritional information is listed with every recipe, which makes it easy to see at a glance, and the opening chapters are very informative about healthy eating. The recipes include enough spices to give them wonderful flavour without being too hot. A practical and inspiring book.
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