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Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant
Since its opening in 1973, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been synonymous with creative cuisine with a healthful, vegetarian emphasis. Each Sunday at Moosewood Restaurant, diners experience a new ethnic or regional cuisine, sometimes exotic, sometimes familiar. From the highlands and grasslands of Africa to the lush forests of Eastern Europe, from the sun-dr...more
Paperback, 736 pages
Published
October 15th 1990
by Touchstone
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Dec 03, 2012
Becky Koski
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone interested in world vegetarian cuisine
This book has SUCH a wide variety of world wide recipes that when I first found it at a second hand bookstore, I wasn't sure where to start. I have slowly begun picking my way through it over the past year or two, and every single recipe I have tried is more delicious than the last. Since these are regional recipes- very specific to the areas they come from- there are lots of unusual spices and food combinations, but each chapter goes into great detail to not only explain anything out the ordina...more
I love this cookbook. Utterly and completely. Almost as much as I love the great friends that loaned it to us while they are on an exciting life adventure. I have always enjoyed the Moosewood cookbooks but this one really brings it all together offering a huge variety of tried and true vegetarian recipes that use all the best ingredients from around the world. They don't expect you to have an entire arsenal of exotic ingredients, though it certainly wouldn't hurt. Every recipe I try, I savor and...more
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I confess that I haven't tried a lot of the recipes in this book that was given to us years ago. However, the Rhode Island Corn Bread (inexplicably listed under "R" in the index) and the vegetable stock section (which is actually lists of what and what NOT to include and why) are the reasons that we keep the book in a prominent section on our cookbook shelf.
The corn bread is quite grainy and rather flat but it is fabulous sliced and grilled, drizzled with olive oil, then served under barbecued...more
The corn bread is quite grainy and rather flat but it is fabulous sliced and grilled, drizzled with olive oil, then served under barbecued...more
I really like how this cookbook is set up. There are 17 regions/countries/ethnicities included in the book. Each section has an introduction to the area and the cuisine being covered, which is very informative. The recipes included in each section are separated by meal or course and each section has its own table of contents to make locating recipes easier. I am interested in culture and trying foods from other parts of the world, so this book really appeals to me.
Sep 28, 2008
Sarah
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Natural foods enthusiasts, world-cusine enthusiasts, vegetarians or veggie-sympathetic eaters
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A fantastic cookbook from a fantastic source. Moosewood books are full of interesting, beautiful, delicious recipes using fresh and wholesome vegetarian ingredients, and occasional seafood recipes. They are well-written, with good instructions, educational explanations, and personal touches. They don't usually have pictures, but trust me, you don't have to see pictures to know these recipes will be good. Moosewood Sundays is a collection of ethnic/regional menus, with each section written by a p...more
Apr 07, 2013
Siobhan Mcnally
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Beginner to intermediate cooks who want to learn more vegetarian recipes
I remember eating in the restaurant and being so impressed I immediately wanted to learn how to cook like that myself. I have cooked my way through this book from cover to cover with my husband and the African peanut stew and empanadas are a family favorite we make often. These recipes are a bit more complicated than in some of the other books they have produced, but the results are impressive and well worth the extra effort.
I never like Moosewood cookbooks, and I should probably stop buying them. In this case, I found that none of the included recipes sounded better than those included in my "ethnic" (as in, "not American") cookbooks. It's never good when I go through every page of a cookbook and am not tempted to cook anything described therein....
My go-to cookbook for all of my CSA veggies. I can't open this cook book without finding something I want to make. A good variety of cuisines, many of which I don't see (or taste) on a regular basis. The cook book is vegetarian but even non-vegetarians should be able to find something intriguing. Love the variety of soups.
Apr 07, 2009
Michelle
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone - especially vegetarians
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Excellent ethnic recipes for dishes from around the world. Try the brussel sprouts and carrots; I think this is in the UK section. My husband, who was totally turned off of brussel sprouts as he'd never tasted them when cooked properly, loves this dish. I typically make it for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
Mum has been giving me cookbooks from a young age and this was the first one I got, on my ninth birthday.
It's vegetarian and covers cuisines from just about every country you can point to on an atlas.
There aren't any photos but the recipes are encouragement enough.
I love it.
It's vegetarian and covers cuisines from just about every country you can point to on an atlas.
There aren't any photos but the recipes are encouragement enough.
I love it.
Excellent vegetarian cookbook for cuisines from around the world. Each chapter, and each recipe is accompanied by stories about the author's connection to the region and to its food, which makes dipping into the book for a little culinary inspiration all the more enjoyable.
though it is not vegan, many of the recipes can be made to be, I enjoyed reading each contributing author section as many shared of wonderful fond memories and recipes which was heart-warming
this is an excellent cookbook, and for ethiopian food, it is the only cookbook I have used--but use the chinese recipes, the mexican ones, and the new england brunswick stew if quite good.
I read through this extensive cookbook at Diana's house and LOVED it. I only got to make one thing, coconut bread, and it was amazing. Caribbean fruit curry? Yes please.
343501 A delightfully diverse cookbook organized by region/country. Sometimes a bit complicated and often with specific ingredient lists, it none the less is proving to be a great collection of recipes. And one you get around to making them, quite handy, such as the black bean ful which is not only delicious but easily storable (which is good, as these aren't recipes for one).
Lots of super delicious and fun recipes. There is one dish in here, Transylvanian Stew or something, that if you cook it following the specific Moosewood instructions you have to use every single pot, pan, bowl, spoon, cup, cutting board, measuring device, grater, blender, press, mill and dehydrator that you own and some you had to borrow from your neighbor.
So the running joke is, i guess if you're from Transylvania you can dirty every dish you own and not care because you'll probably be dead by...more
So the running joke is, i guess if you're from Transylvania you can dirty every dish you own and not care because you'll probably be dead by...more
Captivating travel stories start each chapter in a different country, inspires you to find world maps as you take the food journey.
Like all the Moosewood Collective cookbooks I've read, this is full of lovely recipes, and I like the International focus of this one particularly.
Oct 02, 2008
Hannah
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One of my most-used cookbooks ever. It's probably not the most authentic authoritative source on any of these cuisines, but it seems reasonably un-whitewashed, and the mix of cuisines is really intriguing (quick, name one other cookbook with Finnish and soul food recipes in it!). The harira (North African spiced vegetable soup), the date cake and the pilav have all been kitchen obsessions that I've eaten for weeks at a time. I gave this book to my dad around the time I went vegetarian (talk abou...more
I have this book, have had it for years, haven't tried much out of it, but the recipes look interesting.
One of the best and most beloved cookbooks of all time. Everything works. So many beloved favorites.
Good cookbook, but for me impossible to attain most of these ingredients or prohibitively expensive to do so.
This is lovely to browse for the stories as well as the recipes.
An old favorite cookbook that I (happily) 'stole' from my Mom.
Oct 30, 2009
srevans
marked it as to-read
(added to amazon.com "Curious About These" list, c. March 2007.)
This is my favorite vegetarian cookbook.
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Nice variety of fancy vegetarian recipes.
Aug 03, 2009
Nancy
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Love ALL in the Moosewood series!
wish for my own copy
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