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Title: Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference: 500 Recipes, 275 Photographs by Elizabeth Schneider ISBN: 0-688-15260-0 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: stunning
Comment: This book is amazing. Each vegetable's entry includes: the latin name, varieties and species, color photographs, history, how to select, how to store, how to prepare -- including quotes from outside experts. Next, there are a few well-chosen recipes. Following that are detailed descriptions of dishes that Schneider collected by interviewing a wide range of the best chefs. Throughout, Schneider is informative, interesting, opinionated and frank -- if a vegetable's a dud, she'll say so. It's a great read -- but don't plan on carrying this 800 page, large format book on the train with you, unless you've got a backpack or cart.
My only quibble is that I want more! Schnieder doesn't include the best known vegetables -- tomatoes, peppers, etc., since she feels there is plenty of information elsewhere. I'd also love a taxinomic chart showing major families and relationships. And it would be great if the book had a key, so that you could find the identity of a vegetable using its description. But these are very minor omissions, and the book is quite large enough as it is.
This book is a magnum opus of the vegetable kingdom -- we can only hope that Shneider will be writing on future books about fruits and grains.
Rating: 4
Summary: Immediate thumbs up!
Comment: I just received this book for Christmas after wanting it since it was first released. It immediately satisfied my questions about the bok choy family (try and figure out the difference between yu choy and choy sum if you're not an expert in Asian produce). I also made a recipe for broccoli raab (one of the four names she mentions) and found it very quick, easy, and relatively low fat.
I admit, I haven't used it day-in and day-out like some of the reviewers, but upon immediate perusal it has clear pictures and descriptions and recipes that utilize the main ingredient in its 'natural habitat' i.e. Cuban vegies have Cuban recipes, etc.
I'm saving the fifth star only because I am still working through the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Veggies: A Weighty and Useful Reference
Comment: I've had a copy of Elizabeth Schneider's "Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables" for about three years and refer to it quite often. Flipping through that book, I note page markings for arugula, cilantro, spaghetti squash, mangoes, radish sprouts, Swiss chard, Chinese cabbage, tomatillos and others. When published in 1986, these items were "curiosities." Schneider's book is recognized today as a classic that influenced cooks and the produce market. Now, 15 years later, Schneider has produced an updated version of the 1986 book. In "Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini," she has dropped the fruits and winnowed out the veggies. Cilantro and other "spice" type veggies are not in the new book. Sprouts, squash, and other single items in the old book are now presented within generic headings. There is lots of new material. The format and presentation of the new book-with large heavy weight glossy paper, 275 good photos, 500 meat and meatless recipes and 220 more pages-is as elegant as the old book is text bookish. The 1996 reprint of "Uncommon Fruits" ...; "Vegetables" goes for twice that! If I had neither and wanted a vegetable reference book, I'd go "Vegetables," price notwithstanding. Schneider has been writing for 30 years, "Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini" is likely her magnum opus. It is a 2001 nominee for a James Beard Foundation book award.
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Title: Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables : A Commonsense Guide by Elizabeth Schneider ISBN: 0688160646 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 08 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Herbs & Spices: The Cook's Reference by Jill Norman ISBN: 0789489392 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World: Nature's Harvest by Donald D. Heaton ISBN: 1560228652 Publisher: Haworth Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Vegetables by James Peterson ISBN: 0688146589 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 08 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Spice and Herb Bible: A Cook's Guide by Ian Hemphill ISBN: 0778800474 Publisher: Robert Rose Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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