This is a wonderful book - great recipes, lovely photos, and fascinating material about biodynamics, a kind of 'premium organic' farming that is spreading fast. It also has a lot of stuff about food politics and nutrition. But mostly it is full of a good and original selection of recipes. Highly recommended.
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I work in the produce industry and I have found this book useful for the many raw materials I work with. It is not a technical manual and does not incude sufficient information about seasonality to be the ultimate but has proven useful with new items on more than one occassion.
Every recipe I have tried from this book has worked - and worked first time without needing any tweaking.
It has uncomplicated recipes together with good photos and lots of nutritional information - fat, veg portions, carbohydrates, sugars, proteins etc, and cooking time.
It isn't a fancy or trendy cookbook, but a solid reliable one for everyday cooking.
Have made - curried lentil and vegetable pilaf, vegetable cous cous, Kashtouri, Baked rigatoni with aubergine, Mediterranean Chick Pea Pie, Vegetable hotpot with dumplings, Chinese-style tofu omlettes, hot cajun potato wedges, dahl and green bean soup.
Was expecting recipes for a 'healthy vegetarian lifestyle' to be a bit dull. This book isn't. Just very useful.
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Every recipe I have tried from this book has worked - and worked first time without needing any tweaking.
It has uncomplicated recipes together with good photos and lots of nutritional information - fat, veg portions, carbohydrates, sugars, proteins etc, and cooking time.
It isn't a fancy or trendy cookbook, but a solid reliable one for everyday cooking.
Have made - curried lentil and vegetable pilaf, vegetable cous cous, Kashtouri, Baked rigatoni with aubergine, Mediterranean Chick Pea Pie, Vegetable hotpot with dumplings, Chinese-style tofu omlettes, hot cajun potato wedges, dahl and green bean soup.
Was expecting recipes for a 'healthy vegetarian lifestyle' to be a bit dull. This book isn't. Just very useful.
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Every recipe I have tried from this book has worked - and worked first time without needing any tweaking.
It has uncomplicated recipes together with good photos and lots of nutritional information - fat, veg portions, carbohydrates, sugars, proteins etc, and cooking time.
It isn't a fancy or trendy cookbook, but a solid reliable one for everyday cooking.
Have made - curried lentil and vegetable pilaf, vegetable cous cous, Kashtouri, Baked rigatoni with aubergine, Mediterranean Chick Pea Pie, Vegetable hotpot with dumplings, Chinese-style tofu omlettes, hot cajun potato wedges, dahl and green bean soup.
Was expecting recipes for a 'healthy vegetarian lifestyle' to be a bit dull. This book isn't. Just very useful.
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Like a lot of people, I am gradually coming to the realization that what I put into my body affects the way my mind and body are able to function. Not all food is created equal and counting calories or carbs does very little good if I'm not giving my body the nutrition it needs. Slowly, I am learning that my body, mind, and spirit prefer whole foods to fast food and empty calories.
Rainbow Green Live- Food Cuisine introduces the concept of live-food. This plan is strictly vegan and promotes the usage of fresh raw foods whenever possible. For most people, these recipes will be a radical change from what they eat at present. Nonetheless, they will provide a place to start.
This is a great diet and a great book.
I've been on it for 5 weeks and have lost a stone.
Follow the recipes and don't cheat and so will you.
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This book is not aimed at the British. Much of the references to wild foods are american, and as a beginer in wild foods I found this book too assuming. It is simply a recipe book. The subtitle 'foraging through the seasons' implied to me that the book would give some guide to the foods involved in the recipes, however there are only occasionaly snippits of extra information. Although this book is not what I expected, it might suit someone more advanced in understanding wild foods, and probably from America.
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I bought this book to introduce some flavours into my rather bland lunchbox and I must admit this book is well above my expectations.
Usually you expect vegetarian food to be rather dull, a radish here and some celery there but this book proves vegetarian food is rather yummy.
There is so many different recipes that will have you rustling up a sandwich here and there without hesitation of giving it to a meateater.
There is plenty of wraps and sandiches is this book that you could make to take to a picnic, pack into your partners lunchbox and even make them for your kids-I'm convinced even little kids will love the vast flavours these sandwiches bring.
I found the dietry information at the beginning of this book quite useful but as a person who does not eat animal-derived foods and therefore has always paid attention to this sort of information there are only so many times I can be told the same 100 fascinating facts about nutrition without my eyes rolling into the back of my head from boredom. Did you know that vitimin C is essential for human health and can be found in citrus fruits? No? Congratulations, you must be the last person on Earth not to know it. You can come out of the cupboard now and start living with the rest of us again.
The dietry stuff is just on the opening ten pages or so. Most of the book is taken up with recipies. Lordy, Miss Scarlet! What recipies! Just the descriptions ... Read More:
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