Greens Cookbook - Softcover

Deborah Madison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906502587 ISBN 13: 9781906502584

Publisher: Grub Street, 2010

Synopsis

"The Greens Cookbook" is a rarity; it is a book that created a revolution in cooking when it first appeared in 1987. It has now become a classic and has been unavailable in the UK for many years. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay. Not only for vegetarians; it caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating. Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, "The Greens Cookbook" contains more than 260 recipes for all seasons, all occasions, and all tastes. From bright, simple salads to deliciously succulent frittatas, here is a provocative, sophisticated and varied fare, dedicated to elegance and balance, taste and texture, color and freshness with recipes such as Mexican Vegetable Soup with Lime and Avocado, Artichoke and Fennel Stew, Wild Mushroom Ragout, Charcoal-Grilled Leeks, Red and Yellow Pepper Tart, Goat-Cheese Pizza with Red Onions and Green Olives, Blueberry Cream-Cheese Tart and Brazilian Chocolate Cake. "The Greens Cookbook" presents inspiring menus for spring, summer, autumn, winter; Everything from easy-to-prepare dishes for two to meals for large scale entertaining. It has the first ever guide to selecting wines with vegetable dishes, glossaries of unfamiliar ingredients and useful kitchen equipment.

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Review

Packed with recipes from the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant in San Francisco that regularly please vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike, Greens is this cook's personal favorite cookbook. From New Potato and Grilled Pepper Pizza to Zuni Stew, these recipes are consistently innovative and delicious. --MTB

"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant. The cuisine is elegant, inspiring, and astonishingly creative. Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing. Congratulations!" --Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook

From the Publisher

"Reading through these delicious recipes, I'm impressed by a certan refined taste and style and consistently critical and good palate that comes through. The book is especially important because it's vegetarian, and the excellence of ingredients makes the dishes irresistible."
--Alice Waters, Chez Panisse

"For all of us who remember the glorious dishes Deborah Madison created at Greens, this book is a particular pleasure. What makes it special is not only her enticing and original way with fruits and vegetables, but her generous and inventive spirit."
--Carol Field, The Italian Baker

"This dazzling cookbook presents a new cuisine that is intelligent, inventive and above all delicious. This is brilliantly crafted food that.just happens to be made without meat. Bravo!"
--Anthony Dias-Blue, CBS Radio Food Critic and Nationally Syndicated Columnist, American Wine

Farm-fresh produce never tasted so good. The Greens Cookbook elevated vegatarian cooking to new heights. Every page introduces you to a wonderfully inventive recipe."
--Diane Rossen Worthington, The Cuisine of California

"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant. The cuisine is elegant, inspiring and astonishingly creative. Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing. Congratulations!"
--Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest

Edition details

• Publisher: Grub Street
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906502587
• ISBN 13: 9781906502584
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416