1000 Vegetarian Recipes From Around the World

By Elizabeth Towers and Jo-Anne Cox

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752584278
• ISBN13: 9780752584270
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Parragon Publishing
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 8.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ideal Vegetarian Cookbook

As a hesitant omnivore, I picked up this cookbook on sale after paging through the recipes and seeing many different dishes with few recipes involving tofu or beans. It was literally the wisest purchase I have ever made; it made my transition to vegetarianism a smooth and thrilling one. I could not cook/live without this cookbook. The pictures are excellent, and the recipes are varied: Indian Hyderabad pickles to stellar Italian pasta dishes. Over the past year, I've tried the appetizers, breads, pasta dishes, salads and met tasty success with all of them. This cookbook is more of an introduction to than a tutorial in international cooking. Some of the recipes are a bit westernized, and the dishes suffer minor compromise. The desserts are a little too health-conscious for my taste, but the rest of the book makes up for it. Despite these drawbacks, I would recommend this cookbook to anyone--vegetarian or not, beginner to advanced cook.

VEGETARIAN BIBLE - if you own 1 cookbook, make it this one!

This is MY FAVORITE and most-used cookbook. I bought it for beans at Ross thinking it was probably one of those useless coffee table books, but after thumbing through it, I decided to give it a chance. I'm SO GLAD I did!! Two of my (non-vegetarian) friends went and bought it after I made them meals from it. The depth, breadth, and diversity of recipes is astounding. Lots of Mediterranean and Indian recipes. (thank goodness!) Beautiful photos, easy directions, and delicious meals. This thing even tells you how to make paneer (Indian fresh cheese). I made it and it was easy, scrumptious, and I must admit... fun! You WILL NOT find a better cookbook. I can't understand why it's out of print. That's just crazy. Note: this thing is huge like the Oxford dictionary, and every bit as useful. Happy Eating!!

Useful for vegetable dishes year round

For example, we made the Vegetable Jambalaya (p. 255) last week for snowed-in football watching. Went along with the Fish Tacos. It was delicious, and a great alternative to chili.

A stupendous cookbook .... I've bought six already ....

due to the fact that many of my friends that see the book want it immediately, and, for those that live out of country I usually oblige. First of all this is not just a cookbook for vegetarians since almost all the recepies can be used as fabulous, new and tasty side dishes. The author had to use a lot of creativity in these recepies since in being able to present a dish that not only looks tasteful but also is considered as a main dish for the vegetarians in your crowd. There are some pastry and filo dough items that are quite unique ..... The presentation of this book as well is fabulous. ALL and I mean ALL the recepies take up only one page, each page has a presentation picture, and, for any slightly more complicated recepies small thumbnails showing the prep steps. In colour of course ..... Also, each recepie gives a carb, calorie, sugar etc breakdown, an estimated time for completion of the dish and a small graphic as to how many steps are required to prepare the dish .... The instrcutions are clear cut and concise ... Since this is an 'international' edition of, I guess, a USA book the recepies are very very varied and include dishes from both the Far and Middle East, from Thailand, Latin America etc etc ..... This certainly is a MUST HAVE book from the expert chef to even the most novice of cooks today ....

Kitchen Savior

My husband and I are vegetarians who love variety! We prefer cooking dishes from scratch in less than 1 hour. This book fits our constraints perfectly. Without it, we would be lost in the kitchen.