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The Food Matters Cook Book (2000)

by Mark Bittman(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1611295947 (ISBN13: 9781611295948)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

review 1: I love his Washington Post column, so I figured this cookbook would be worth a look. Bittman, like a lot of recent cookbook authors, encourages the reader to eat more fruit/veg/whole grains, and rely less on red meat and processed food. I think it is a great plan, though one that a lot of Americans may have a hard time adjusting to, simply because of the ease and simplicity that processed foods allow them. I loved that his recipes were easy and could be easily changed to add more ingredients. I will end up copying about 12 pages of recipes from the cookbook, including a Mashed Cannellini/Potatoes with Gorgonzola, homemade Whole Wheat Chapatis/Tortillas, and Noodles with Gingered Carrots and Miso. 5 stars.
review 2: This is a useful and interesting cookbook, and... more it's given me lots of ideas for reducing our consumption of animal products. My biggest peeve about it is that it has no pictures; I really like a cookbook to have pictures, partly because it's hard for me to imagine what a finished dish is like without a photo. It also doesn't have nutrition information, which is unsurprising: Bittman advocates changing the way you think about food, and he's not a portion-counter, plus these recipes are mostly a bit loose, with lots of flexibility for changing ingredients or proportions. So it's not that I think the book NEEDS nutrition information, or that the audience of it is really looking for that info, but I personally would love to have it. The recipes are generally easy to cook and useful, though, and I expect to make many meals from this book. I have already used the recipes in the back of "Food Matters" a lot, and I think this will expand my repertoire. I also appreciate the basic directions on cooking beans and whole grains, both of which can be a bit mysterious for most home cooks (including me). less

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