This cookbook I bought for a very good price... another Winners find! The Vegetable Cookbook: From Earth to the Table, 2011, Paragon Books; pp.[5] 224 is deliciously enjoyable. If you luv veggies than this is the cookbook for you and if you don't this may just be the book that will change your mind!
There are five chapters, and an extensive introduction and a handy conversion tables at the back. The introduction has some great information. It is broken down into seven areas... The Benefits of Eating Vegetables, Types of Vegetables, Buying Vegetables, Seasonal Eating... which comes with a four seasons vegetable guide list to easily find what is available during those times..., Storing Vegetables, Preparing Vegetables and Essential Cooking Techniques. The five chapters consist of Chapter 1: Heat-Loving Vegetables, Chapter 2: Shoots, Stems, Roots &Tubers, Chapter 3: Brassicas & Leafy Greens, Chapter 4: Mushrooms & the Onion Family and Chapter 5: Peas, Beans, Lentils & Corn.
Each recipe has a tiny typed ingredient list to the left of the page and a numbered step by step instructions to follow. Which makes it seem like the cookbook is focusing more on the prep work and cooking than ingredients. Reading the ingredients for most of the recipes you should already have them on hand. Nice full page matte photos are very tantalizing. I have tried a few recipes. The corn fritter recipe being one of them... which I post about tomorrow. I absolutely luv this book so much that it will be in my regular cookbook rotation. - JW