Here, innovative young chef Celia Brooks Brown gives meat-free cooking a new lease of life. From quick weekday lunches, snacks, and dinners to sophisticated dinner parties, you'll find a feast of delicious recipes for every occasion. Inspired by the great vegetarian cuisines of Asia and the Middle East, as well as the Mediterranean, "New Vegetarian" is bold, bright, and beautiful. -Whether you're a strict vegetarian or a confirmed carnivore, "New Vegetarian will tranform the way you cook. -Includes step-by-step instructions and preparation methods. -Over 90,000 copies sold hardcover.
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.
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.
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.
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