Vegetable Love
Barbara Kafka
Published: 2005-01-01
Pages: 708
Barbara Kafka has been shaping the way America cooks for three decades. SheÕs doing it again.
With her customary originality, thoroughness, and passion for great cooking, Barbara Kafka has created the cookÕs ultimate vegetable resource: 750 original recipes showcasing everything she adores about the vegetable world, from the lowly green bean to the exotic chrysanthemum leafÑeven stretching the definition to include potatoes, mushrooms, and avocados just because sheÕs crazy mad for them.
Her love of vegetables shows in every dish, each impeccably researched, consistently foolproof, and put to the Kafka taste test. Among these delectable dishes are dozens of essays, including personal reflections on the garden and migrations in the vegetable world, for example; all are erudite and unfailingly entertaining.
KafkaÕs book within a bookÑan at-a-glance, weÕve-done-all-the-work-for-you CookÕs GuideÑprovides practical, encyclopedic information on how to buy, measure, substitute, and prepare every food that ever called itself a vegetable.
With her customary originality, thoroughness, and passion for great cooking, Barbara Kafka has created the cookÕs ultimate vegetable resource: 750 original recipes showcasing everything she adores about the vegetable world, from the lowly green bean to the exotic chrysanthemum leafÑeven stretching the definition to include potatoes, mushrooms, and avocados just because sheÕs crazy mad for them.
Her love of vegetables shows in every dish, each impeccably researched, consistently foolproof, and put to the Kafka taste test. Among these delectable dishes are dozens of essays, including personal reflections on the garden and migrations in the vegetable world, for example; all are erudite and unfailingly entertaining.
KafkaÕs book within a bookÑan at-a-glance, weÕve-done-all-the-work-for-