Cookbooks

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Um, ok, this started out as a rant about annoying

" vegetarian " cookbooks, and now it's a good impression

of the other cookbook. But I'm sure y'all know where

I was coming from.

 

- Priscilla

 

--When we started, 8 or 9 years ago, I think, Linda

McCartney's first cookbook had just come out in trade

paperback and we picked it up. We found it both

comforting and demystifying. She explained things

well, offered a nice mix of recipes from easy to more

complicated, and used mostly available ingredients or

suggested alternatives.

 

--Currently we are fans of Rachael Ray, certainly not

because of her meat use, which is intense, but because

she is very good at choosing foods anyone can get and

offering recipes anyone can follow. Her basic

approach is both democratic and forgiving, and

encourages, unlike some of the fancier, snootier chefs

who seem to love confounding people or using $2000

truffles or otherwise demonstrating how high up the

totem pole they can climb. Ray is basic, friendly,

and realistic, and calls herself a cook, not a chef.

 

--Vegetarian cookbooks that take that same open, basic

approach are the ones to find, and Linda McCartney's

did a pretty good job of it. Others we use include a

Joy of Cooking from when we were first married, (back

in the neolithic); Molly Katzen's Moosewood, some of

them; and the Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook.

 

--Another thing we can each do is make one for home

use by culling those recipes we most like. The

traditional file card method is a good way to go.

 

 

 

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