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Title: Nikki & David Goldbeck's American Wholefoods Cuisine: Over 1300 Meatless, Wholesome Recipes from Short Order to Gourmet by Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck ISBN: 0-452-26280-1 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent cookbook...but wish it were more vegan-friendly
Comment: The recipes in this cookbook are great. There are meals for every cooking skill level, and for almost all tastes (excluding meat, of course). The recipes don't include refined ingredients, opting instead for whole wheat pasta, brown rice, molasses, etc. The recipes are filling and delicious. Of all the recipes I've tried in this cookbook (and I've tried LOTS), there's maybe two that I didn't care for.
One of my favorite things: There's a detailed section on bread baking, which has been very helpful. (The pumpkin pan rolls are some of the best dinner rolls I've ever had.)
One thing to note is that this cookbook was written some time ago, so it can seem a bit...stodgy...at times, especially considering how far vegetarian cuisine has come in recent years. But I really enjoy classic (and, yes, sometimes stodgy) dishes, full of lentils and brown rice and the like. The barley-mushroom soup is amazing.
But here's the downside. Since falling in love with this cookbook, I've gone vegan. And there's a lot of eggs and dairy used in this book. Some substitutions are easy to make (soy milk for cow's milk, for example), but others aren't. I used to use this cookbook several nights a week, but now it's more like once or twice a month.
All in all, I recommend this cookbook, particularly for people who don't believe that meatless meals can be good. It was the first vegetarian cookbook I bought, and because of it I realized that doing without meat is not only possible, but very tasty!
Rating: 5
Summary: the Absolute Best of the Bunch
Comment: hi there.
i rarely write reviews, but i did want to add my voice (or, as it is, my 5 stars) to the now & hopefully forever growing commending fans of this quietly spectacular cookbook.
i certainly second, third, fourth or even fifty-hundredth the idea that "this is the only cookbook you will ever need," or "this is the vegetarian joy of cooking."
absolutely!!
as an ex-vegetarian cook/chef (take yr pick. add caterer. note: turned bookdealer), & one who has at least 100 cookbooks, i can honestly commit to this as being my all time favorite. i buy it every time i see it (the bookdealer business) & make sure everyone i know has a copy.
& as much as i love the "greens"/deborah madison series, as much as i coveted (& finally got for Xmas) her giant basics cookbook, this one is better. in its subtle way it even beats "moosewood." & not that any of these are in the slightest bit bad -- just a note to convey just how phenomenal this one is.
its secret?? that it is the best build-from-the-ground-up vegetarian cookbook around. meaning: the goldbecks give you the quick & dirty. anything you make following directions straight from the book will turn out grand. but, in addition, they give you the foundation from which to expand upward into the vegetarian cooking skyscraper stratosphere. you can start from what they give you, move, delete, exchange, fiddle -- figure how to cook the base recipe to yr particular taste or demands -- & it works!! it always works!!
this is a great cookbook.
as to its vegan content, take 2 from yr long longterm animal-free (at least eatingwise) household:
when this cookbook was written veganism was an extremely difficult business to accomplish (yr correspondent tried valiantly -- & this was later, in the 80s -- & still was beset by an onslaught of hidden ingredients).
&, of course, SUBSTITUTE!! finagle those ingredients!! tofurella for cheese -- i believe it is applesauce for eggs (maybe it's butter) -- but it CAN be done!! & if ever there were a cookbook adaptable, this is it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Cookbook
Comment: I have about a dozen or so Vegitarian Cookbooks. This is the only one I actually use. The others gather dust. The only problem is really a compliment. I've used the book so much it's binding is getting broken. The book need a ring binding. In all, it's a great book. I will definitely split with the bucks and replace it someday.
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Title: The Good Breakfast Book: Making Breakfast Special by Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck, Merle Cosgrove ISBN: 0960613846 Publisher: Ceres Press Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Healthiest Diet in the World by Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck ISBN: 0452282160 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Eat Well The YoChee Way: The Easy and Delicious Way to Cut Fat and Calories with Natural YoChee [Yogurt Cheese] by Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck ISBN: 1886101094 Publisher: Ceres Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen : Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet by Lorna J. Sass ISBN: 0060007745 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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