Vegetarian cooking for everyone
by Deborah Madison · first published 1997
100% recommend
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A broad, ingredient-focused vegetarian cookbook and a core kitchen reference. Suited to home cooks who want to eat less meat, including those not planning to go fully vegetarian.
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…--http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.... Join the Slow Food movement: http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/eng/manifesto.lasso Four books I'd like to see in every kitchen: * Deborah Madison, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (number one among vegetarians, but also the vegetable cookbook everyone should have) -- http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Cooking-Everyone-Deborah-Ma... * Mark Bittman, Fish (If you can't cook fish after…
on “Why your desk job is slowly killing you” ↗…reiterating that there's a whole continuum between eating meat and eating no meat called "eating less meat". Always amazes me how people overlook this when writing off reduced meat consumption as not for them. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison is a great way to start down this path.
on “Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards” ↗…better concentration, better self image. Exercise will also help preserve muscle mass. I also give people a standard reading/homework list: -- Michael Pollan's essay Unhappy Meals -- Deborah Madsion's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone -- Howard McGee's On Food and Cooking -- Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking -- Watch "Food, Inc" and "King Corn"
on “How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs” ↗…or two, and dig in. Definitely stay as close to raw ingredients as possible. I've lived out of two cookbooks for the last several years: - Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" - Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" Learn to not be picky. Ramen may be cheap and taste sort of ok, but you need to take care of your body if you want a well functioning mind. Learn to love things like kale... cheap, available year round,…
on “Ask YC: What do bootstrappers eat for dinner?” ↗…And if you have a background in a field with standardized parts and repeatable results, the kinds of instructions cookbooks give can be maddening. Totally understandable. One book that helped me was Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. You may not want to cook vegetarian, but many vegetarians are young people who are also building their own cooking styles from scratch. So VCfE goes through the basics - like what is cubing and what…
on “Wikimedia Cookbook” ↗…factored in the decreased life expectancy associated with biking 17 miles a day on the streets of Southern California? :-) Here in the Bay Area, we have bike lanes, and drivers that actually stop for you. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, AKA the Big Orange Book, is fantastic. The mushroom risotto recipe is to die for.
on “Why your desk job is slowly killing you” ↗I have a hardback first ed. of and can strongly recommend "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone". I see there is a second edition. I would be wary. Even Fuschia Dunlop modifies favorites in succeeding editions, and I hate that. We're not even slightly vegetarian, except in the Anthony Bourdain…
on “Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks” ↗"A few decades ago there was a more popular genre of cookbook: a huge 200p book" "Joy of Cooking" ©1975 is 915 pages. "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food" ©2000 is 513 pages. "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" ©1997 is 742 pages. "The River Cottage Meat Book" ©2007 is 543 pages. "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" ©2001 (40th Anniversary Edition) is ~720 pages, but this is just the first volume; the 2nd…
on “Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks” ↗