The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant [A Cookbook]

by Eric Tucker, Bruce Enloe

Since 1994, San Francisco's Millennium Restaurant has created a visionary gourmet experience, redefining vegan cuisine for the twenty-first century. Its nuanced seasonings, elegant presentations, and resourceful use of exotic ingredients elevates vegan food to the level of fine dining, while the landmark MILLENNIUM COOKBOOK proves you don't need meat and dairy to make delicious, satisfying gourmet dishes at home.

In THE ARTFUL VEGAN, chefs Eric Tucker, Bruce Enloe, and Amy Pearce present 140 new impassioned interpretations of global cuisine, spanning influences from the Pacific Rim to the Deep South. Showcasing an innovative repertoire of flavors, methods, and ingredients on the cutting edge of healthful taste and nutrition, these sumptuous recipes attest to the endless possibilities of all-organic vegan cooking. Here's a

   • Lemon-Pine Nut Ravioli over Baby Artichoke-Golden Tomato Rago
   • Oyster Mushroom Calamari
   • Stuffed Poblano Chiles over Forbidden Black Rice Risotto
   • Strawberry, Rose, and Rhubarb Soup
   • German Chocolate Cake

All the recipes are cholesterol free, and many are low in fat or can be made with little or no oil. Whether you're a strict herbivore or simply interested in exploring a dynamic new cuisine, the food of Millennium will open your mind-and palate-to a world of enticing vegan flavors.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Vegan, Nonfiction, Food, Vegetarian

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

Reviews

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is Millennium restaurant's second cookbook. As with the first cookbook, all the food is delicious and I think it's worth having this book, especially if you don't live in San Francisco or can't afford one of the meals at the restaurant. The dishes are complex and difficult to make, although not too big a challenge for experienced cooks. The food here is universally enjoyed by vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. This very popular restaurant would not do well without support from the general population.

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Millennium cookbooks are company cookbooks. Most of the recipes are complex enough, that for anyone with a day job, making them on a daily basis would be nearly impossible (although there are parts to some recipes that can be whipped up fairly quickly if you're just looking for a good sauce or side). Depending on where you live, some of the ingredients can be either esoteric or expensive. (I, for instance, am unsure of whether or not I would eat mushrooms picked in Central Park, even if I could find them, whereas there seem to be an abundance of good places in Northern California to pick them.) Also a plus in a vegan cookbook, The Artful Vegan contains a number of photographs, which is helpful as a number of vegan cookbooks do not.

[G. Lawrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a delicious read! Vegan cookery of a new kind. Gained so many ideas for future meals. Great book

[Damien · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too rich for my pocket, and too weird for my tastes. Well, maybe not, because I pride myself on liking to try any thing weird and different, but some of the food combinations just seemed...odd. Labor intensive and excessive ingredients that only a yuppie chef could appreciate; one of the reasons I have no desire to be a "social climber", even though I've been accused of snobbery too many times. If any sugar daddy wants to take me to Millennium, I may be inclined to change my mind...
However, I finally found a vegan tapioca pudding recipe that even I can make, and now I know what to do that jar of teff seeds in our pantry.

[Mia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely book if you are sick of tofu and/or want to cut cholesterol. Beautiful recipes with dates and figs and interesting grains and all kinds of other chic chic gourmet items that do not typically come to mind when you hear the word "vegan." It is also has a very helpful section in the back that describes, for instance, how long and with how much water you cook Quinoa--or how to sprout it. Fascinating, I know ;0

--I think I really need to take a trip to San Francisco and just spend a weekend at the Millenium Restaurant eating...

[Geanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are dishes that I would only make for a fancy dinner party or entertaining friends; I don't usually have the ingredients on hand, so I'm not necessarily able to pick up the book, open the page, and say "I'll make that today". However, the food still looks delicious, and, if nothing else, just makes me want to visit the actual restaurant in San Fransisco.

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fancy cookbook from the folks from San Fran's vegan gourmet restaurant. Like its predecessor, Artful Vegan is not an everyday cookbook. I find myself using it a bit less often than their original cookbook.

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outrageously difficult and delicious. Made the coriander almond beet cakes to much applause. Next will try the marinated tempeh with a syrah reduction and horseradish cream.

Oh! and DEFINITELY try making the cajun crusted tempeh. Best recipe so far.

[Becky]

i think this has the recipe i want. braised garlic creamy pesto with rosemary? must. find. recipe.

[Margaret · Rating 4 out of 5]

great, creative vegan cookbook that reflects their Millennium restaurant in San Francisco

[Shari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely difficult to make most of these recipes, but the ones I did make were excellent. Wish I were a better cook.

[matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book for super fancy dinners