Romancing the Bean: Essentials for Creating Vegetarian Bean Dishes - Softcover

Joanne Saltzman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915811480 ISBN 13: 9780915811489

Publisher: HJ Kramer, 1993

Synopsis

In this companion book to Amazing Grains, Joanne Saltzman applies her unique approach to a wide variety of dried beans. Saltzman explores the fundamentals of dried-bean cooking, explains seasonings, soaking, different types of preparation, each bean's unique attributes and taste, and provides more than sixty kitchen-tested recipes that showcase them in a variety of dishes. Also included are recipes for tofu and tempeh, two processed forms of soybeans.

About this title

From the Publisher

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From the Back Cover

The United States Department of Agriculture has recently replaced the Four Food Groups with a Food Pyramid that recommends a largely vegetarian diet for optimal health. Yet even now, beans - the main source of vegetable protein - are still a neglected and misunderstood food in the repertoire of many cooks.

In Romancing the Bean, Joanne Saltzman teaches us about cooking and serving beans as a mouth-watering source of protein. She begins with instructions on the fundamentals of dried bean cooking, explaining seasonings, pre treatments such as soaking, and the different types of preparation (pressure-cooking, steeping, deep-frying, sprouting, baking, boiling, slow-cooking, marinating, and others.) She then describes each bean's unique attributes and taste and provides recipes that showcase beans in a variety of dishes from the simple and rustic to the gourmet.

But that's only the beginning! In addition, Romancing the Bean offers a discussion of how each dish was created, what particular ingredient or technique was favored, and how each recipe can be altered depending on the seasonal availability of ingredients or on what happens to be in the cooks pantry. Developed by Joanne at her School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Colorado, this unique approach emphasizes the creative process in cooking and can help free you from dependence on recipes forever.

Praise for Joanne Saltzman's Amazing Grains

"Documented here is a process of transmission, whereby the teacher doesnt give you impersonal formulas, but a way of seeing, feeling, and understanding the ingredients and techniques. Joanne is a cook, a teacher, a healer, and above all an artist, and all of these disciplines contribute to the book." (World of Cookbooks)

Edition details

• Publisher: HJ Kramer
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0915811480
• ISBN 13: 9780915811489
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184