Vegetarian Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

This is a great group of vegetarian recipes. They are delicious, but do require a lot of work. People raved about the Quinoa and Leek tart I made for Thanksgiving. The recipes are clearly presented and easy to follow. There are a good variety of categories, and recipes in each. This is a great book to have.

I consider myself a very capable cook. When entertaining friends, I am considered one of the best cooks in our group. (I also work in the industrial side of the food industry.)We have two friends who recently became vegetarians for health reasons. For this reason I was looking for something above and beyond the typical vegetarian cookbook. I consider most of them very poor at developing interesting layers of flavors. But the grains with the veggies and then throw on some spices would be how I would characterize most vegetarian cookbooks.This book has taken vegetarian cookbooks way beyond that type of cooking.Butternut sage filling for a ravioli, then cook the ravioli, then cook the ravioli in a butter sage mix to finish it off.Mushroom strudel with a gravy.The photos would make a great book by themself.For the non-vegetarians. How many times do you add a vegetable dish where it truly is just a simple cooking method for the veggies and the protein is the star attraction? This book will give you some ideas on how to add another element to your meals.Highly recommended!

Has excellent collection of recipes--to read them is to imagine their taste and complexity.

Wonderful book! I even got in touch with the author, a lady chef. A remarkable achiever lady! I borrowed the book from the public library, but it is so good, so complete, so wonderful, that I had to add it to my personal library. Not a vegetarian myself, love veggies though, but my five-year old granddaughter wants no meat of any kind, so I must get versatile and cook otherwise for her. Great book, I recommend it!The only criticism I have is that ABOUT THE AUTHOR was missed in this edition. No information on this remarkable lady chef was found in the book!!! I had to look in the Internet for information on the author. I learned the publisher overlooked this important fact...shame shame shame!!! I exchanged several emails with the author, fine lady chef!! Buy the book!

I love this book! I checked this out from the library and knew I needed to get my own copy. My 10 year old decided to be a vegetarian and we struggled to find recipes, but this book is everything we needed. She can even help cook and loves the results. I even enjoy the tofu recipes, something I have hated my whole life.

I bought this book as a gift for my vegetarian friend who loves to cook. She's already got a few veggie cookbooks, but this one had really good reviews, and it's always nice to try new things. After looking through it, there's a lot of pictures and the instructions are pretty clear. There are also good cooking tips and definitions of different terms and techniques. She was really happy about it and has already used it. So I think it was great!

I am weaning myself off meat and I was looking for some tasty recipe subsitutes. This book is easy to follow and the recipes are delicious. Yes, the book is a little pricier than some of the others, but it's worth it. The pictures are beautiful, too.

I bought this as a house warming girft for my vegetarian daughter. I like the nutrition guides and information but the recipes were a little more wordy and many were more difficult than I'm used to. Nice for a a young adult who needs guidance to prepare nutritious vegetarian meals and include all necessary elements.

We have cooked 4 meals from this book, and every time we get SUPER happy with the results. It has been an amazing cooking experience for us. Very different from blog type recipes. If cooking is a hobby of yours, you definitely need this book for some vegetarian adventures.

Good

Very complete book of vegetarian food. Nice pictures and format for the recipies.

Love the lay out, first few recipes I tried were well laid out and were a hit at the dinner table.No problem recommending this one.