Vegetarian Turkish Cooking: Over 100 of Turkey's Classic Recipes for the Vegetarian Cook

by Carol Robertson

Book Overview

Robertson relates a series of captivating and delightful travel adventures in the first half of the book, unveiling the wonders of Turkey from the ancient cities of Ankara to the spas at Bursa to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583940383
• ISBN13: 9781583940389
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Frog in Well
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

excellent cookbook

This cookbook is easy to understand and does not require a lot of cooking skill. The recipies are easy and delicious, and a lot of them use the same basic ingredients so you can mix and match with appetizers and dinners. I am very happy with my purchase.

Good cook book

We just got back from a wonderful trip to Istanbul and Greece and I must say upon returning I was looking for some more of those wonderful meze and the Turkish Delights (yum). So I took a chance on this cookbook since there aren't many (any others) out there that are vegetarian never mind vegan! I'm really enjoying this cookbook - the first 76 pages (out of 249 so that's not a big deal) are indeed history/travelogue but its kind of fun to flip through and the pictures were of some of the same places we visited so that was neat. Just before the recipes there's a section on subsitites and here the author gives you the info you need to find certain ingedients that might not be in the local supermarket - e.g. there's discussion of egg substitites and where to find them, non-dairy butter substitites and where to find them, meat/fish substitites and where to find them etc. In the recipes there are some ingredients like non-meat chicken broth that is called for. Why not just go with a vegetable broth? I did. Anyway, the recipes have all been great so far. I've tried mostly mezes so far - the fried carrots, the fried eggplant with two sauces, stuffed grapeleaves (mine never turn out looking like they should - need more practice...). There are wonderful soups in here - the only one I've made so far was the hot and spicy soup, but others like the lentil look good too. I definitely recommend this cookbook. I had a *really* hard time finding vegetarian dishes in restarants in Istanbul which is why I enjoyed a lot of mezes, so I can see why there are recipes in here (like Sultan's delight) that use meat substitutes. I think this is quite authentic and the author did a terrific job at trying to bring the Turkish flavors to the vegetarian table!