In Praise of Veg: A modern kitchen companion
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For fans of Samin Nosrat, Anna Jones and Stephanie Alexander, the ultimate veg guide for food lovers.
‘The stylish book is billed as the definitive guide to making vegetables the centre of any meal’ – Stylist Magazine
Highly commended’ in the Guild of Food Writer Awards 2021
The definitive guide to making vegetables the centre of the plate.
In this comprehensive and fully illustrated kitchen companion, food writer and presenter Alice Zaslavsky profiles 50 favourite vegetable varieties, offering 150+ recipes reflective of both tradition and modernity, just as all good cooking should be. Uniquely organised by colour and filled with countless tips on flavour combinations, rule-of-thumb buying/storing/cooking methods, shortcuts, and veg wisdom from over 50 of the world’s top chefs, In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn a bag of yawns or a produce-box surprise into a knock-out meal.
For the vegetarian or just veg-forward, In Praise of Veg is the most ambitious and comprehensive reference on the topic, as well as the delicious answer to the age-old question: what are we eating?
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (12 Nov. 2020), Murdoch Books |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 488 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1911632906 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1911632900 |
| Dimensions | 26.8 x 4.9 x 21 cm |
by Simon
The must buy cookbook of the year. Exquisitely illustrated and designed, this 488 page book is a fantastic comprehensive book for the veg lover and veg beginner. So many delicious looking recipes I cannot wait to try. It is set up in order of veg colour (white veg, yellow veg etc), as well as sections with useful information from veg stock making to a useful guide on different ways to cook veg (the heat spectrum). I imagine this will be my go-to book for many years to come!
by SBC
Such a stunning book, it immediately caught my eye. Some fab looking recipes within, I actually bought it as a gift which was very positively received. Will buy again.
by Max Stainton
The non recipe content and presentation of the book are good but the recipes are poor and lacking depth and many of them frankly didn’t taste great either. This felt like an encyclopedia trying to be a cookbook. There are better veg based recipe books out there so sadly this is going to the charity shop.
by Maxwell Oliver
Excellent book for all foodies to enjoy
by Torie
We have had an amazing time looking through this incredible compendium of vegetable tips, tricks, recipes and ideas. It is sure to become an absolute staple in our kitchen. We highly recommend it as both a reference and recipe book!
by Alessia Biocco
Being Italian I can easily say we are overwhelmed by cooking books. They are everywhereof any shape or suggestion, but this book if for me everything you might look for. I love the way she talks about veggies, colours of the pics, enthusiasm in every page. They right Christmas’gift to be kept and read every, single day to have a lot of fun in the kitchen. Thanks Alice Zaslavsky……. Great, but great job!
by Alessia Biocco
A lovely book, beautiful colour pictures and lots of information on different vegetables- and of course recipes. Recipient was happy with it!
by Border Reiver
If it were for the recipes alone, I would give this book 3 or 4. Quantities for recipes are given for both American and metric cooks. The types of veg are organised by colour. However, there is far too much information for 1 book which means that it is rather too unwieldy for my small kitchen and won’t fit into a cookbook stand. She should have made it into 2 volumes as per Nigel Slater
The shriekingly discordant colour of the visually cluttered cover gives some clue as to the unattractive 70s art work inside. Luckily the recipes are no printed on colour and the font is reasonable. However the introduction to each section is printed on coloured paper- very visually taxing to read. The writing style is rather too shouty and full on for me to enjoy – don’t quite get what Nigella means by terming the author “a force of nature “……Storm Arwen?!
I find this useful as a reference book, but such a weighty and discordant tome is an uneasy kitchen companion.