- ISBN13: 9780061732430
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Do you want to eat really well—not just once in a while, but all the time—but you don't know where to begin? Are you tired of pizza—as much as you like it—and broke from buying takeout? Do you love good food—the straightforward, homemade kind—but feel challenged to set up a kitchen, shop for decent equipment and groceries, and tap into a few basic skills that can put a simple roast chicken or vegetarian entrÉe on your dinner table? If you answer ... More >>
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I just wanted to express my thanks to Molly Katzen for being daring enough to include beef stew in her new cookbook. I have used and enjoyed her cookbooks for 30(?) years – it seems like forever.
I didn’t pick recipes or her cookbooks because of vegetarianism but simply good eating. I’m an omnivore, an economic omnivore. I eat whom I can afford. In addition to gardens I raise my own meat, on pasture, and slaughter it myself to assure that my family gets the best quality without involving the Big Ag CAFO high petroleum input pharmaceutical meat industry. We can raise and eat meat sustainably.
Some people have the misguided idea that eating meat is murder or dying is painful. Neither is innately true. We create the lives we take to eat. This is natural just as the wolf, the tiger, the bear and the shark. Slaughter as done with modern humane methods is orders of magnitude more humane than death in the wild. Anyone who fails to understand this should seriously investigate and understand the brutal drawn out process when prey dies at the claws and teeth of predators in the wild.
The reality is we are all a part of the natural world, part of the web of life. Only a Kingdomist would make a suggestion that we all must go vegan. The reality is we eat and we all shall be eaten in our time, unless one goes for extra crispy (cremation) or pickled (embalming) which are terrible wastes of nutrients and energy. When my time comes I want to be composted and spread on my apple trees, strawberries and rhubarb.
Eat meat, just less than average of it. Eat pastured meat, not confinement raised, petroleum intensive, chemical laced CAFO meat. There is balance in everything. Have balance in ones diet too. So a big thank you to Molly for being brave enough to publish a recipe for ‘beef stew’. In little ways we do make a difference.
Cheers,
Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm, LLC
Orange, Vermont
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Rating: 5 / 5
Two recipes from this cook book appeared in Cooking Light magazine. I tried them both and thought they were fabulous!
Rating: 5 / 5
I sat down to look at this book in a Barnes and Noble, as I’ve always been a fan of Mollie Katzen’s. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. The woman who brought great vegetarian food to the mainstream now has come out with a book filled with meat recipes. Do we really need standard recipes for chicken soup and beef stew from Mollie Katzen? And instead of her trademark drawings, she has taken photographs for the book, which, I kid you not, look a lot like those ghastly food photos of the 1950s. I don’t know what happened here or what the motive was for this book, but I am puzzled and disappointed.
Rating: 2 / 5
Although the book is not entirely vegan (or even vegetarian), it had lots of great recipes and tips for the vegans out there (including me). Mollie clearly labeled which recipes were vegan, and included ideas on how to make many of the non-veg receipes into veg-friendly recipes.
The tips in this book are absolutely priceless.
For instance, I will never eat broccoli the same way again – her “absolutely the best broccoli” was simple and DELICIOUS.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is another fabulous collection from my favorite cook book author. Geared towards young people just starting to cook, the recipes are affordable, easy, and , miraculously, also fantastically delicious. Although I am a vegan and won’t personally be cooking the meat recipes, I was glad to see that Ms. Katzen’s approach is thoughtful here: she does push meat eaters in the direction of sustainable choices, which is what is truly needed if our fragile planet is to survive.
The photos are wonderful, too — while I love Ms. Katzen’s art work, it is also nice, especially for young cooks, to see what the dishes they’re creating will actually look like.
Another gem of a book from Mollie Katzen!!!
Rating: 5 / 5