Williams-Sonoma The Best of the Kitchen Library: Soups, Salads & Starters Review

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(More customer reviews)I was at my daughter in law's house for dinner last month and she served a salad from this cookbook. It was delicious! I wanted to write down the recipe to bring home, but after looking through the cookbook I found so many good recipes that I had to buy it instead. I bought two books, one for myself and one for my daughter as an upcoming wedding gift. The recipes are well written, the ingredients are easy to find, and the soups and salads are perfect for a family. Nothing stuffy about this cookbook, just comfort and good eating.

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The award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library, treasured cookbook series comprising forty-three single-subject titles, provides the material for seven new collector's editions. Each title in the new format offers comprehensive coverage of a method or style of cooking, or a menu part, compiling favorite recipes into a single, beautiful book. Gorgeous full-color images of every recipe as a finished dish anchor the pages, while step-by-step photographed techniques illuminate more challenging tasks. A detailed, illustrated glossary, a trademark of the Kitchen Library series, completes every book. Written by international cooking authorities, these timeless recipe collections provide everything the home cook needs to prepare delicious, inspiring meals for friends and family.

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The Enlightened Kitchen: Eat Your Way to Better Health Review

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(More customer reviews)Being vegan can be a chore sometimes - it's the best diet in the world, yet it takes such an effort to avoid the proliferance of animal products in this country! But Marie Oser makes being vegan easy - and fun - and DELICIOUS! I have worn out her two other books from use, and I enjoying this new one so much. Every recipe is so tasty, her books have expanded my menu incredibly! The Enlightened Kitchen is informative, too - jam-packed with details to help you make good eating choices. You'll love it!

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"The very best in healthful vegetarian cooking."–John McDougall, M.D., internist, author, and lecturer"With her detailed knowledge of nutrition combined with unequaled expertise in the kitchen, Marie Oser has compiled a sensible guide for health that is also a treasury of delicious recipes."––Neal Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine"For the sake of your palate, I highly recommend Marie Oser's book."––T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University"Oser knows her stuff . . . [She is] the vegan Martha Stewart."––Gerald Etter, Food Editor, Philadelphia InquirerEnjoy the health benefits of richly flavorful plant-based cuisine with 175 sure-to-satisfy recipes found in The Enlightened Kitchen, based on the newspaper column of the same name. In this, her fourth book, Marie Oser helps you discover how to convert traditional favorites normally high in saturated fat, calories, and cholesterol into healthy, wholesome, and satisfying meals. These enlightened dishes are absolutely delicious, having all of the flavor, texture, and eye appeal you expect from gourmet fare–but without the unhealthy baggage that often comes with traditional ingredients. Enjoy dishes that are good-tasting and good for you! Making food choices that lead to optimal health and well-being has never been easier– or tastier.

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American Vegan Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)I know what you're thinking...do I really need ANOTHER vegan cookbook? Or, if you have none (yet), why would I purchase this book? Well, I was a tester for Tami and her recipes basically turned me into a gourmet chef. Easy to prepare with simple and no-fuss ingredients, the recipes in American Vegan Kitchen make any meal feel special and even got the meat-eating boyfriend's hearty endorsement. Favorites include the (baked!) onion rings, City Skillet tofu and potatoes, an amazing marinade for tofu skewers (coffee and liquid smoke-- need I say more? Sounds strange, but it's the closest I've had to a smoky, meaty taste in tofu), and the seitan. Now, I've tried at least 4 recipes for seitan but the ones in this book never cause any of the usual problems (gumminess, flavor, texture, what have you). The cinnamon flapjacks are great, and the yeasted waffles are my favorite of the many recipes I've tried. The roasted garlic pretzels are adorable and great for a party. The San Fran seitan wraps are great for quick weeknight meals, and taste much fancier than the ingredients would have you believe. The mustard mac and slaw turned me, a former slaw-hater (I couldn't even stand to look at the stuff) into someone who has to be restrained from making it weekly. Need I say more? Probably not. You'll love this book....and if not, well, something is wrong with your tastebuds.

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The comfort food of America's diners, cafes, and bistros brought home to the vegan table!

Do you ever crave the delicious comfort foods served at your local diner, deli, or neighborhood cafe? This cookbook shows you how to make vegan versions of your favorite dishes in your own home kitchen.

These 200+ recipes will satisfy vegans and non-vegans alike with deli sandwiches, burgers and fries, mac and cheese, pasta, pizza, omelets, pancakes, tasty soups and salads, casseroles, and desserts. Put together your own Blue Plate Specials from the roadside eateries of Route 66. Sample favorites from the cafes of San Francisco to the bistros of New York. Enjoy truly great American flavors from tempting ethnic dishes to the homestyle comfort foods of the heartland.

Recipes include: Around-the-Clock Coffee Cake, Beer-Battered Onion Rings, Darngood Donut Bites, Cajun Pot Pie, Fork-and-Knife Reubens, Midtown Greek Salad, Spicy Balsamic Maple Wingz, Yankee Cornbread, Southern Fried Seitan, Mom's Apple Pie, and many more.

From coast-to-coast and cover-to-cover, American Vegan Kitchen helps you serve up great homestyle vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desserts. The book contains 30 full-color photos and helpful icons to bring American comfort food home to your table.

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Tami Noyes has a special gift for creating luscious comfort food recipes. Whether you're a dedicated herbivore or an omnivore dipping your toes into vegan waters, American Vegan Kitchen offers a plethora of down-home recipes to please every palate. You'll find yourself making Tami's easy, satisfying dishes over and over again. Dynise Balcavage, author of The Urban Vegan

After years of whetting our vegan appetites online, Tami has written a wonderful cookbook filled with the kind of irresistible recipes she's known for, making it even easier for us to enjoy her marvelous dishes. American Vegan Kitchen is sure to become an indispensable addition to bookshelves everywhere. Celine Steen, author of 500 Vegan Recipes

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Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell's Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)I stumbled into Hell's Kitchen on a trip to Minneapolis during a quick trip. While eating a slice of Bison bread with the most amazing peanut butter I had ever had slathered on top.. I never wanted to leave. Lemon Ricotta pancakes, Mahnomin Porridge, Mitch's food spoke to me.. and I knew I was eating food I would never get anywhere else. Every sauce was made by hand, and the experience was glorious. I left taking a jar of peanut butter with me and I have told many others since .. If you ever get a chance to get to Minneapolis ... YOU have to eat here. I thought about the restaurant often, signed up on their website for the newsletter, and was thrilled to hear that Mitch had written a cookbook!I pre-ordered it from the restaurant, added in a jar of the to die for peanut butter.. and waited patiently for it to arrive. If you enjoy cookbooks that are more than recipes, you will love the story this book tells. There is love on every page. Love of friends, food, and love for a troubled man who has surrounded himself with a terrific support system so he succeeds in life. Ann Bauer does a wonderful job capturing the experience of Hell's Kitchen, in the writing and the photos. I was astonished to find ALL of the recipes from the menu in the pages of the book. THANK YOU! Not sure I will ever attempt some of them, but I can droll over them, and look forward to the next time I get
to Minneapolis. And I just might try to make the peanut butter myself!

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A collection of 157 recipes from Mitch Omer, chef-owner of the wildly popular Hell's Kitchen, named one of the Best Breakfasts across America by Esquire magazine.

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The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery Review

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(More customer reviews)"Cancer Fighting Kitchen" isn't just a cookbook; nor is another treatise on nutritional philosophy. It's indeed a cookbook, but so much more. Now that I've spent a couple of days with it, I know it's a nutritional arsenal with the kind of firepower that's perfect for what can seem like a tough assignment: cooking for someone going through cancer treatment. But whether you're cooking for someone who really needs to eat well in order to heal-- or you just want to understand how the food you eat influences your overall health and wellness, this is an amazing find. The recipes look and sound simple and delicious -- I can't wait to cook my way through all of them. This is the perfect follow-up to "One Bite at a Time" -- my first real friend in the kitchen when I needed a whole new way to look at cooking. I've cooked my way through it over the last three or four years, and I'm ready for the next step and this is it. Her Magic Mineral Broth is an amazing elixir that aids in whatever ails you -- I've made gallons of it, and now I'm thrilled to see two new takes on the basic recipe in this book.
This time Rebecca Katz offers us lots of easily digestible nutritional science along with recipes that look so tempting that I can almost taste and smell them just from the photos. But it is her disarming and sympathetic humor that leads you into each chapter and recipe with a little smile of recognition and a tidbit of personal insight. The Culinary Pharmacy section in her "Cancer fighting Toolkit" is worth the purchase price alone. It's a virtual encyclopedia of what we're all trying to learn about ingredients that add health-supportive magic to what we slave over in the kitchen. At a time when food TV is busily persuading us that cooking is something between a spectator sport and a reality show, this book points us back to what preparing food should be -- a loving spoonful of something special and sustaining. You don't need to be a patient or a caregiver to appreciate all that is in these pages, but if you are, this book is an amazing gift.

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