| View Larger Image | Vegetables Every Day: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Today's Produce With over 350 Recipes | Hardcoverby Jack Bishop (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | William Morrow Cookbooks | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 416 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 25,962th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
The fresh vegetable sections in most supermarkets, farmers' markets, and gourmet groceries are overflowing with an amazing range of produce, both familiar and exotic. Consumers are tempted by kale and kohlrabi, taro and tomatillos, bok choy and burdock, along with all the familiar choices. Now acclaimed cookbook author and food writer Jack Bishop offers a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to this bounty of produce, complete with selection tips, preparation instructions, and hundreds of recipes for more than sixty-six commonly available vegetables. With Bishop's expert advice, you'll learn how to coax the very best flavor from every vegetable, whether it's a carrot, cauliflower, or cardoon. Wondering how and when to buy the sweetest green beans? Bishop suggests buying at the height of summer, and selecting beans that are crisp and slim (older, thicker beans will be mealy and bland). Confused about how to cook the spring's first sorrel? Bishop offers such unique and delicious dishes as Sorrel and Potato Soup andSorrel Frittata. These recipes -- like all 350 in the book -- are clear and uncomplicated, ensuring success for even the novice cook. So whether you are looking for a salad or side dish, a vibrant main course, or simply great mashed potatoes, you are sure to find it in this essential kitchen companion. We all know that vegetables are the key to healthful eating -- now it's time to discover how great they can taste, each and every day! |
Amazon.com Review
If you find yourself in daily dread of how to fix those vegetables that Mom always told you to eat, your lifeline is here. Unique and tempting recipes are abundant in Jack Bishop's Vegetables Every Day. Throughout the book's 66 chapters--one for each vegetable he includes in the book--Bishop features the retail availability of the specific veggie, the best season to find the most flavorful choice, and which characteristics to look for in a good specimen. He also includes recommendations for best preparation and which spices and herbs will best support and enhance the flavor of the vegetable of choice. The recipes range from the basic to the complex, from simple steamed broccoli to rich soups such as Corn Chowder with Leeks and Potatoes. Even traditional recipes get an update, such as sautéed mushrooms cooked with butter, onions, and garlic. In just two simple steps, Bishop's interpretation has the mushrooms taking on an exquisite flavor that can stand alone as a side dish or as a topping for a rich steak. There may be some vegetables that are much less well known and even more difficult to find at the corner grocery store, such as malanga, Jerusalem artichokes, or salsify, but if you're interested, his suggestions might just help you find and tastefully enjoy them. Vegetables Every Day is the solution to satisfying the recommended five servings of vegetables a day. --Teresa Simanton |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 37 reviews)
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Playbook for Farmers Market/CSA by Tessa M.  5 Stars
October 19, 2009
This book goes perfectly with my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box. It's divided up into chapters about each vegetable with a variety of recipes as well as info about how to choose and store each vegetable. Each week when I get my box of veggies, I read those chapters and plan out what to cook all week - it's really fun.
Although I would say that the recipes are hit-and-miss with my taste (none of them are bad, just a little boring), I'm learning tons about all the different ways to cook veggies. Also I think focusing on cooking vegetables (and then adding meat and starch to fill out the meal) helps you eat healthier and consume less calories overall.
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Eating More Veggies Now by M. L. Barile 5 Stars
October 16, 2009
I love this resource from Jack Bishop. Every chapter is devoted to a vegetable. The first two pages provide important information like what to look for in a ripe (fill in the vegetable) and when its growing season is. The recipes follow. He provides such novel ways of preparation and offers great suggestions for spicing them. My hubby has actually gotten to like veggies he never enjoyed previous to my purchasing this book. It is a great "go to" book to add to your cooking collection.
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Very useful book -- most recipes are calorie and fat laden though by sfchris (San Francisco) 5 Stars
September 06, 2009
I have had this book for many years and use it a lot, especially for the excellent advice on selecting and cleaning vegetables I have not cooked with much.
However, I will warn dieters/healthy eaters is that Mr. Bishop is not afraid of adding butter, bacon, and other fats to vegetables. I would not call many of these recipes "healthy". Most of his recipes have quite a bit of fat added. That explains why the recipes taste so good though :)
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Make your veggies the star by Z. Pham (California) 5 Stars
July 02, 2009
I never liked vegetables as a kid. My best memories are of the canned vegetables they would serve at the cafeteria at school every day. Yuck. I thought that's the only way they tasted. Even as an adult, they were only a second thought to my meals. In an effort to improve my diet, I bought this cookbook.
Having never been much of a cook, I did not know what to do with vegetables, how to pick them, how to cook them. Wow. This book changed everything. I learned when each vegetable was in season, how to pick the best one, the best way to cook each vegetable to bring out its flavor. The recipes are simple. The vegetables are allowed to shine, not drown in some thick sauce. They are not the second thought but the star. I never liked carrots or broccoli until I tried the recipes from this book. Nice book, I highly recommend it for vegetable novices like me.
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Make your veggies the star, by Z. Pham (California) 5 Stars
January 18, 2009
I never liked vegetables as a kid. My best memories are of the canned vegetables they would serve at the cafeteria at school every day. Yuck. I thought that's the only way they tasted. Even as an adult, they were only a second thought to my meals. In an effort to improve my diet, I bought this cookbook.
Having never been much of a cook, I did not know what to do with vegetables, how to pick them, how to cook them. Wow. This book changed everything. I learned when each vegetable was in season, how to pick the best one, the best way to cook each vegetable to bring out its flavor. The recipes are simple. The vegetables are allowed to shine, not drown in some thick sauce. They are not the second thought but the star. I never liked carrots or broccoli until I tried the recipes from this book. Nice book, I highly recommend it for vegetable novices like me.
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