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Herbivoracious: A Flavor Revolution With 150 Vibrant And Original Vegetarian Recipes (2012)

by Michael Natkin(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1558327452 (ISBN13: 9781558327450)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Harvard Common Press

review 1: The recipes are solid, everything I made from the book turned out well. The photography is gorgeous enough to make you drool! I picked this one up at the library hoping to find inspiration for a vegetarian Thanksgiving I was worried about cooking this year...instead I find myself buying the book for myself, and planning at least one vegetarian dinner a week for the forseeable future. This was a great cookbook, and one I'm pleased to add to my collection and recommend to others. Yum!
review 2: I'm not going to say that this was the most pretentious cookbook I've ever read--it's sadly not. but I do think this is exactly the sort of thing to which the authors of Thug Kitchen referred in their cookbook. I blame the mismatch between cookbook and reader partly on my ... moreown inability to check out the blog before requesting the book from the library (Great rejoicing that I did not purchase immediately.) Here's the thing--the recipes all sound pretty good. there's even a few recipes I'm interested in trying (Spicy Nori Seasoning on popcorn? Yes, please.). But recipes like Tea-smoked Lychees, Grapefruit and Avocado Crudo, King Oyster Mushroom Lettuce Wraps with Ssamjang, and Mango Puffs with Lemongrass-coconut Pudding and Black Sesame, while I'm sure they are delicious, are completely out of my league, both financially and time-wise, not to mention inclination. If I were at a nice vegetarian restaurant with plenty of money to blow, I'd probably want to give a bunch of them a try. But will I ever make such super-complicated recipes with obscure, undoubtedly expensive ingredients? (That also tend to be pretty high in fat/ be surprisingly unhealthy?) Not at all likely. Mostly I laughed hysterically while reading through the increasingly complex and seemingly pretentious recipes, reading them aloud to my husband. Occasionally I said, hmmm, that sounds good. then I'd find another recipe to make me laugh. I appreciated that he labeled vegan and gluten-free recipes, and notated others that could be adjusted to be gluten free and/or vegan. But it wasn't enough to make this the cookbook for me.Maybe that makes me low-brow. a low brow vegan with a taste for simple ethnic fare and healthy, plant-based recipes? that's OK. I can deal with that. Not so much with this cookbook. less

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