New Vegetarian: Bold and Beautiful Recipes for Every Occasion

by Celia Brooks Brown

Lifts meat-free cooking out of the doldrums and gives it a new lease of life. Bold, bright and beautiful.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Food, Vegetarian

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Celia Brooks Brown’s inventive style of cooking has made her an established name on the cookery shelf. Born in Colorado, USA, she moved to Britain after university. She worked for several years as a private chef for the film director Stanley Kubrick and running her own catering business.

Celia wrote a weekly column for The Times online called “Urban Farmer” about her allotment in North London, and a column called “Grow to Eat” for BBC Good Food Magazine. She makes regular TV appearances on the UKTV Food channel’s Market Kitchen and the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen.

Reviews

[Sheila]

Browsed: has some good recipe ideas, also some requiring special ingredients and less available.

[Rory]

It’s good. A bit out of date now but some nice recipes including a gravy.

[Alanna]

This book is fantastic! It was given to me as a gift many years ago and I go back to it again and again for its fabulous recipes that I know will turn out just how I want. American-born Celia Brooks-Brown, based in England, makes vegetarian food that really is impressive, exciting, fancy, different and delicious. If it's a special occasion or I want to impress my dinner guests, I reach straight for this book. Of note are the gorgeous Tamales, tender Japanese Omelette, exquisite Spinach and Water Chestnut Wontons, and the absolute knock-out Raspberry Roulade. And both the White Chocolate Mousse Torte and the baked Chocolate Banana Cheesecake have guests insisting on taking the recipe as they leave.

[Shannon]

This book and New Vegetarian Entertaining are the best vegetarian cookbooks I've found. (And yes, I own the Vegetarian Times cookbook.) They have great photographs, which have given me a lot of food-styling inspiration. The recipes are easy enough that you'll actually make them, and impressive enough that you'll want to invite your friends over.

[Tom Menke]

a most excellent book covering food preperation as well as presentation.
I really enjoyed it and I gave me ammo for impressing a vegitarian
interior designer who seems perhaps interesting to me. hahahahahah
great book to read and look at

[Laura Wetsel]

Delicious (and some exotic) recipes, but these are not simple. Look in here if you have time, money, and patience.

[Inke Hutse]

I would like to give it 6 stars out of 5!