Vegetarian Gourmet Cookery

by Alan Hooker

Book Overview

"Vegetarian Gourmet Cookery" is a content-driven cookbook that extols the virtues of becoming aware and perceptive about food rather than just eating it to satisfy the pangs of hunger. Its recipes are full of texture and flavor! Based upon Hooker's extensive foreign travels and decades of experimentation, the result is over 600 dishes served at the world renowned Ranch House restaurant in Ojai, California.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912238038
• ISBN13: 9780912238036
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: One Hundred One Productions
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best-tasting vegetarian recipes ever

Like the other two reviewers, I bought this cookbook when it first came out and used it til it completely fell apart. And I had the good fortune to live in Santa Barbara, close enough to Ojai to have eaten at Hooker's Ranch House restaurant. I wowed friends and family again and again with dishes that became my favorite classics like Snow White Soup, Mushroom Cutlets and Eggplant Cairo. They are so good, being vegetarian isn't the point of serving them. Here I am today with a beautiful fresh head of cauliflower and the fond memory of Snow White Soup but no recipe. I am SO GLAD I can get another copy...even though this cauliflower won't last til I get the book.

Yummy and healthy? Yep, thanks to Alan Hooker

The first Vegetarian Gourmet Cookery, which came out in 1970, has been my constant companion n the kitchen for 30 years. In spite of stains, tatters, rips, a split spine, many missing pages and even mildew, I wouldn't give the book up for anything. I'm delighted there's a new version!

This is one of the BEST cookbooks - vegetarian or other!

This cookbook features absolutely outstanding receipes from one of the best restaurants in Southern California (the Ranch House). The receipe for Vegetable curry (Navratan Korma) is better than that in most mainstream Indian cookbooks and, by itself, is worth buying the book for! I have used this for many years and always get compliments on the results.