Product Description
The New Laurel's Kitchen includes plenty of simple, beat-the-clock recipes - who doesn't need them? But it refuses to blur the distinction between natural foods and fast foods. If you need forty-five minutes to bake a potato or cook brown rice, fine. That's good, solid wind-down time, precious in today's hurried world: time to cut up green beans, or prepare a cauliflower curry; time for the children to dry the lettuce and help make an Appley Bread Pudding. Laurel's kitchen has its own pace - a human pace, that lets other things happen besides just dinner. Good health is the first concern here, and foods that support it are rendered irresistible: dishes like Mushrooms Petaluma, Poppyseed Noodles, Lazy Pirogi, and Sebastapol Pizza. These are well-tested and innately manageable recipes, homespun, but with a generous splash of the sophistication that has swept the food world in recent years.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 34 reviews)

In the Kitchen

I love to cook and try different ideas and this book was introduced to me by my mentee, she has a very old first edition. So I bought one for both of us. The books came on time and brand new! Now let's cook.
November 24, 2008

My Copy is Falling Apart from Use!

This is my favorite cookbook of all time; like other reviewers, I used it as my main cookbook for years, before becoming vegetarian two or three years ago. I have used most of the recipes in this book and have had great success with virtually all of them. I particularly love the polenta pie (hmm, think I'll make that for dinner) and the many soups. I think best of all I like the introductory material, which talks about the authors' attitudes towards food and cooking -- and eating. I go back often to the suggestions for how to eat, which seem sane and constructive to me, rather than dictatorial or condescending as some veggie/"health food" books can be. I feel as though I know the people who wrote this book, and have spent time with them in the kitchen, preparing food together.

My copy of this book is literally falling apart, even though my a libraian friend had her library technicians "re-bind" it (as best they could, it being a paperback) some years ago. I have requested a new copy for Christmas this year and look forward to having a solid book again. I just wish they'd do an update with more new recipes. I have cooked many meals from this book and recommended it to many friends who like cooking, and I recommend it to you.
October 22, 2008

new version of old standard

this updated version of one of my first cookbooks many years ago is fabulous
with lots of nutritional information and updated,healthy recipes
July 24, 2008

so helpful

This book is excellent. She covers all the basics and has a supern nutrition section at the back which provides information about the nutritional values of all kinds of different foods. If you have a vitamin deficiency you can just look at the back and see which foods to add.
June 12, 2008

Good old fashioned vegetarian cookbook

I own dozens of vegetarian cookbooks, old and new, but I find myself returning to this one again and again. I consider it my "vegetarian comfort food cookbook". Published long before we all developed fat phobia, this book contains rich, flavorful foods. Lots of dairy, so not the best for vegans, but meat lovers won't miss the meat.
January 15, 2008

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