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River Cottage Veg: 200 Inspired Vegetable Recipes (2013)

by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall(Favorite Author)

4.37 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1607744724 (ISBN13: 9781607744726)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Ten Speed Press

review 1: Brilliant book. Got it out of the library initially, but so good I had to buy it.As a vegetarian, with a severe intolerance to a lot of vegetables (severe pain and absolute exhaustion for days after eating many vegetables and a host of other foods), I really do have to sadly avoid the majority of my beloved fruit and vegetables, which has made my diet very restricted and repetitive. This book has given me so many ideas of how to make the vegetables I can eat more interesting. The recipes are easy to make, and very original.I love Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall and admire his passion and good common sense about eating ethically produced, healthy, unprocessed and sustainable food. He has high values and principles without being judgemental, patronising or annoying. There is noth... moreing worse than a zealous vegetarian ramming their beliefs up your nose. It often serves to achieve the opposite desired affect and gives vegetarians a bad name. Having said that, HFW is not a vegetarian, enjoys eating meat, but as he explains in the blurb, "Call me power-crazed, but I'm trying to change your life here. The object of the exercise is to persuade you to eat more vegetables. Many more vegetables. And I hope to do so not from shouting from a soapbox, but through sheer temptation..." He argues that "we eat far too much meat in the West - too much for our own health, and far too much for the welfare of the many millions of animals we raise for food. I believe that factory farming is plain wrong - environmentally and ethically. So it saddens me to say that, despite some recent significant gains in the UK on poultry and pork welfare, the problems associated with the industrial production of meat are, globally speaking, as bad as ever. I've been similarly forthright about fish. I believe it's a wonderful food, which I like to catch and eat. But I have also pointed out that we are in ever-increasing danger of eradicating this amazing source of food altogether.""I still believe in being a selective omnivore, casting a positive vote in favour of ethically produced meat and sustainably caught fish. However, I now understand that in order to eat these great foods in good conscience, I have to recognise, control and impose limits on my appetite for them."Well said HWW! And your recipes are delicious and amazing too.Buy this book. And eat more veg.
review 2: Just as brilliant as all his others, though the fact remains that I am honestly not very big on vegetables. Wish as hard as I do, I still cannot stand the taste of so many veg (corn, pumpkin, & peas especially) and usually only down large quantities of vegetables in stir-fry dishes & other such things where the true flavour is largely masked. I'm happy to stick with the way I currently eat my vegetables and prefer to be inventive with fruit! less

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