Vegetarian Planet (Non) - Hardcover

Emmons, Didi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558321144 ISBN 13: 9781558321144

Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 1997

Synopsis

Never before has so much of Earth's bounty been so abundantly available in local stores and supermarkets. In Vegetarian Planet, Didi Emmons takes vibrant flavors from around the world and, using techniques known to any home cook and easy-to-find ingredients, creates 350 dishes at once bold and flavorful, soothing and homey. Not a book of recipes from this country or that, it is instead a celebration of the new, globally inspired American pantry. Vegetarians have adventuresome palates. At last, here is a book that lets them incorporate their favorite global flavors into simple everyday meals. For the many nonvegetarians who occasionally eat meatless meals but may be used to thinking of vegetarian dining as a parade of side dishes, Vegetarian Planet offers ten big chapters of substantial and hearty main dishes.

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From the Back Cover

All the best flavors from all the Earth come to life in a soulful celebration of tasty and inventive food. From Didi Emmons, a terrific young cook who combines a passion for culinary adventure with a love for the honest pleasures of home cooking, these 350 recipes-with more than 150 main dishes-spell an end to boring and bland meatless meals. Full of farm-fresh produce ripe for the eating, hearty grains that warm the soul, and a whole world of new spices and flavors, they promise boundless pleasures for the everyday table.

Didi Emmons is a bold new talent! Vegetarian Planet is one of the most exciting cookbooks to cross my desk in ages-chick full of hip, imaginative, explosively flavorful recipes that are easy to make and fun to eat. A must read for vegetarians, nonvegetarians, and anyone interested in cool food from a hot chef who speaks for a new culinary generation. -Steven Raichlen, author of High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking and Miami Spice

Lately we Americans have been remembering that there are an incredible number of awesome vegetables and grains in the world, and a whole lot of delicious ways to prepare them. In Vegetarian Planet, Didi Emmons works her magic to create a whole flotilla of good-tasting, healthful dishes. It sure takes the sting out of meatless eating. -Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby, authors of The Thrill of the Grill and Lettuce in Your Kitchen

Didi Emmons Vegetarian Planet will take you places you never dreamed of going, but once there are glad you did. This book is definitely on the cutting edge of the one-globe cooking of the century to come. -Betty Fussell, author of Crazy for Corn and Home Bistro

It takes some mighty tasty food to make card-carrying carnivores like us enjoy a meatless meal, but Vegetarian Planet does the trick. Didi Emmons makes a great case for enlightened eating, and she does it with high style and a sense of humor. - Jane and Michael Stern, authors of Roadfood and Goodfood

Vegetarian Planet is utterly appealing, full of exuberant spirit and enticing recipes. Didi Emmons so clearly revels in the flavors and textures of the vegetarian palate that any food lover, vegetarian or not, will want to own this book. -Michele Anna Jordan, author of The Good Cooks Book of Tomatoes and Polenta

About the Author

Didi Emmons was the chef at The DeLux Cafe, "the hippest eatery in Boston" (Boston Globe) and "the perfect 5-star, not-a-false-note postmodern cafe" (Boston Phoenix). Her new restaurant, Pho Republique, blends a Vietnamese noodle house with a graceful touch of French cuisine. A graduate of La Varenne and a veteran of Hamersley's Bistro in Boston and The Blue Room in Cambridge, she lives in Boston.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558321144
• ISBN 13: 9781558321144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512