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lspichkin · 02-28-2008, 09:06 PM

Mark Bittman's new cookbook, "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food" is well worth checking out if you're looking for some new ideas about how to use up all the fruits and vegetables you'll be producing soon. (Winter's almost over, right?)

I've got his other book, "How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food" and I use it all the time. Probably in my top 3 high rotation cookbooks. These books are *huge* (over 1000 pages..) and have practically every recipe that I care to look up and make.

organichampers · 03-19-2008, 04:02 AM

Yes Winter is almost over thankfully! These will come in handy, thank you.

LadyLavender · 03-19-2008, 06:18 AM

Great recommendations.

If you can find it, Rosalind Creasy has a fabulous book called Cooking from the Garden. Not only does it have amazing recipes, it has garden plans. I just discovered it is available on Amazon in Paperback. My hardbound copy was published in 1988.

paul b long · 03-19-2008, 09:20 AM

Sarah Raven, a BBC Gardeners World presenter who gardens at Perch Hill, East Sussex, published Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook last year (Bloomsbury 2007). It is crammed with ideas about ways of cooking all sorts of fruit and veg throughout the year as you harvest them. It's also got some great photos. It's quite expensive (£30 for the hardback) but good value in my humble opinion.

lspichkin · 03-19-2008, 11:02 AM

I just took a look at Sarah Raven's book on Amazon and it looks absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous photography. Almost like a coffee table book instead of a cook book. But, ouch, it is pricey!

paul b long · 03-20-2008, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by lspichkin

I just took a look at Sarah Raven's book on Amazon and it looks absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous photography. Almost like a coffee table book instead of a cook book. But, ouch, it is pricey!

Ispichkin - You are quite right about the price

. I ought to confess that a kind person gave it me as a present and I probably wouldn't have bought it! But it does have a wide range of excellent recipes and it is helpful that it is written by an expert gardener.

LadyLavender · 03-20-2008, 04:49 AM

If you are a member of Borders Rewards they just issued a 30% off coupon that would bring the price of the book down in price to around $42 US.

Another book I would like to recommend is Charmaine Solomon's Complete Vegetarian Cooking. It has beautiful photographs, recipies, and themed dinner ideas.

02-28-2008, 09:06 PM	#1
lspichkin Administrator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: West Hollywood, CA Posts: 187 Images: 88	Vegetarian Cooking Mark Bittman's new cookbook, "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food" is well worth checking out if you're looking for some new ideas about how to use up all the fruits and vegetables you'll be producing soon. (Winter's almost over, right?) I've got his other book, "How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food" and I use it all the time. Probably in my top 3 high rotation cookbooks. These books are huge (over 1000 pages..) and have practically every recipe that I care to look up and make.

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03-19-2008, 06:18 AM	#3
LadyLavender Green Gardener Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: PA Posts: 4	Great recommendations. If you can find it, Rosalind Creasy has a fabulous book called Cooking from the Garden. Not only does it have amazing recipes, it has garden plans. I just discovered it is available on Amazon in Paperback. My hardbound copy was published in 1988.

03-19-2008, 09:20 AM	#4
paul b long Green Gardener Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: East Finchley, North London Posts: 27	Sarah Raven, a BBC Gardeners World presenter who gardens at Perch Hill, East Sussex, published Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook last year (Bloomsbury 2007). It is crammed with ideas about ways of cooking all sorts of fruit and veg throughout the year as you harvest them. It's also got some great photos. It's quite expensive (£30 for the hardback) but good value in my humble opinion.

03-19-2008, 11:02 AM	#5
lspichkin Administrator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: West Hollywood, CA Posts: 187 Images: 88	I just took a look at Sarah Raven's book on Amazon and it looks absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous photography. Almost like a coffee table book instead of a cook book. But, ouch, it is pricey!

03-20-2008, 04:49 AM	#7
LadyLavender Green Gardener Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: PA Posts: 4	If you are a member of Borders Rewards they just issued a 30% off coupon that would bring the price of the book down in price to around $42 US. Another book I would like to recommend is Charmaine Solomon's Complete Vegetarian Cooking. It has beautiful photographs, recipies, and themed dinner ideas.