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Bishop, senior editor of Cook's Illustrated, is also the author of Pasta e Verdura (LJ 3/15/96), a nice collection of vegetarian sauces for pasta. Here are more vegetarian recipes for all courses of a meal, from cold and hot antipasti to dessert. The recipes are fine but nothing special, and some of them seem more like variations on a theme rather than separate entities (e.g., Focaccia with Rosemary, Focaccia with Sage, Parmesan Focaccia). For larger collections and others where vegetarian titles are particularly popular.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Jack Bishop has given us a celebration of vegetables, cooked simply the Italian way. The recipes are enticing, yet totally approachable and generally low in fat. Bishop even manages to demystify risotto and polenta. This book will enable the home cook to get delicious vegetarian dinners on the table every night of the week." -- Sara Moulton, Executive Chef, GOURMET
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Top Notch Italiano!,
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This review is from: The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating (Hardcover)
My mom's side ofthe family is Italian (not vegetarian mind you) and last year I convinced them to come to our house for Christmas dinner....they were skeptical but we pulled it off and this cookbook was a great help! There are so many delicious recipes, all very gourmet in flavor and taste yet mostly not too tough to make. We had rvilois as the main dish (my grandmother's secret recipe) but then I pulled in the rest almost all from here. We had a great sauteed zucchini with lemon and mint, cannellini beans with tomatoes, sage and garlic. There are all sorts of other great recipes too - pasta dishes, beans, salads, soups, etc. Everything I've tried has been good and has been true to itlian flavors. I love to use Balsamic vinegar and there is a great (easy) recipe for penne with tomoatoes, rosemary and balsamic vinegar. I love thus book - really glad to have it on hand.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
This quickly became my favorite cookbook,
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This review is from: The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating (Hardcover)
I bought this cookbook because I had some money, and watching Molto Mario on Food TV had made very interested in Italian cuisine. One of my regular dinner guests is a vegetarin, and I often think I'l like to swing more towards vegetarianism as well, so I went ahead and ordered this book sight unseen. It was a great purchase. I got the hardback, which is always nicer than the paperback. The recipes are well formatted, and always start at the top of a page. I've only cooked a handful of things from this so far, but they were all easy recipes to follow and I didn't encounter and snags. It is also packed with enough recipes that there is a chance for lots of diversity.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating (Hardcover)
Based on the description, this looked like a perfect cookbook for me, since I am a vegetarian and I love Italian food. When I actually saw the book and started using it, I was very disappointed. The recipes generally require a lot of time, either in preparing the food or in the time that it takes to cook (e.g., two or more hours in the oven). These recipes would work for someone who is at home all day, but I'm not. Despite being time-consuming, in most cases the lists of ingredients are simple -- but as a result, the food I made from this cookbook was extremely bland. It's possible I just picked bad recipes, but reading over other ones gave me little confidence that other choices would have been better.
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