The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant - Hardcover

Madison, Deborah; Brown, Edward Espe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553051954 ISBN 13: 9780553051957

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1987

Synopsis

The Greens Cookbook is that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking.  Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay.  Not only for vegetarians, this book caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating.  Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, it shows how to present a feast for the eyes as well as for the palate.

The Greens Cookbook contains more than 260 recipes for all seasons, all occasions, all tastes.  From bright, simple salads to beautifully spiralled roulades, here is a provocative, sophisticated and varied fare, dedicated to elegance and balance, taste and texture, color and freshness.

The Greens Cookbook presents everything you need to know to create and enjoy at home meals that draw rave reviews in the restaurant.  Inside you will find: Inspiring menus for spring, summer, winter, fall.  Everything from easy-to-prepare dishes for two to meals for a gala feast.  The first guide to selecting wines with vegetable dishes.  Glossaries of unfamiliar ingredients and useful kitchen equipment.  A generous and encouraging text that helps develop your skill and self-expression as a cook.  Insightful professional tips heading each recipe, and much more.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Madison developed the style and repertoire of Greens and was the restaurant's founding chef.  She has worked with Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, at the American Academy in Rome, and is a contributor to the Time-Life Cookbook Series.

Edward Espe Brown, who learned to cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, is the author of the world-renowned Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking, and The Tassajara Recipe Book.

From the Inside Flap

eens Cookbook is that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay. Not only for vegetarians, this book caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating. Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, it shows how to present a feast for the eyes as well as for the palate.

The Greens Cookbook contains more than 260 recipes for all seasons, all occasions, all tastes. From bright, simple salads to beautifully spiralled roulades, here is a provocative, sophisticated and varied fare, dedicated to elegance and balance, taste and texture, color and freshness.

The Greens Cookbook presents everything you need to know to create and enjoy at home meals that draw rave reviews in the restaurant. Inside you will find:

Reviews

The founding chef of the Zen Center of San Francisco's Greens Restaurant tantalizes readers with more than 275 stellar vegetarian recipes. Drawing upon a variety of traditionsSouthern France and Italy, Asia, Mexico and the American SouthwestMadison encourages the use of fresh vegetables, herbs and spices, quality oils and other staples, the building of flavors with stocks and the harmonizing of tastes, textures and colors. Mealtimes will be vibrant, sensory celebrations when readers serve up Mexican vegetable soup with lime and avocado, red and yellow pepper tart, goat-cheese pizza with red onions and green olives, zucchini-and-basil filo with pine nuts, blueberry cream-cheese tart and Brazilian chocolate cake. A cornucopia of seasonal menus, extensive directions, wine suggestions, and glossaries of kitchen equipment and ingredients enhance this superior collection. Brown wrote The Tassajara Bread Book, etc. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553051954
• ISBN 13: 9780553051957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416