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| The Voluptuous Vegan: More Than 200 Sinfully Delicious Recipes for Meatless, Eggless, and Dairy-Free Meals | 
 enlarge | Authors: Myra Kornfeld, George Minot, Sheila Hamanaka
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 310599
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 0609804898
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9780609804896
ASIN: 0609804898
Publication Date: October 24, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 I Can't Find the Ingredients!!!! March 26, 2002
28 out of 35 found this review helpful
While I have tried the simpler recipes, and they were good, I would not recommend this book. I live in the mountains and don't have access to specialty stores. This means I can't cook most of the recipes in the book. She calls for ingredients such as epazote, fiddlehead ferns, kabocha squash, etc., etc., etc.
I can't find these things and I am not going to send off mail order just for one recipe. Spend you money on a cookbook that you will use over and over again, this isn't it.
 Creative gourmet meals February 19, 2002
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book, not only for the delicious, diverse and different recipes, but the way the author has created a complete 'menu'. I find this invaluable when catering for a dinner party. I recently made the Thai Stew, there was a tofu dish and a rice dish made with lime leaves and coconut which complemented the meal beautifully and really added that professional touch. There are quite a few recipes which require exotic ingredients and require a bit of preparation, but for those of us who need some excitement in our diet this is the book for you. There are also lots of helpful hints for preparation. An excellent book if entertaining is your thing!
Not for the inexperienced cook! January 19, 2002
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
The recipes called for many ingredients that were terribly difficult to find, and were expensive. Also, there were so many steps to the recipes that I would forget a step or two and then the recipe didn't turn out that good. I ended up using so many pots and pans and utensils that it took me forever to clean up! I found that you MUST have patience and a lot of time on your hands to cook most of these recipes. Being a new mom I do not have the time to cook like this as time is very limited now. But on the other hand, the recipes are wonderful and tasty! I love sweets, and the cakes and dessert recipes are to die for! My non-vegetarian friends and family loved tasting and re-tasting the great chocolate-coconut cake with fudge frosting I made from this book! While many vegetarian cookbooks are disappointing because the recipes are bland and practically tasteless, the recipes in this book are very delicious and none of my meat-eating friends knew they were eating a meal without eggs, dairy, or animal products.
This book would be great for someone who is experienced in cooking and who has time to spare. This would also be a wonderful book if you wanted to cook something special for a get together with family and friends or for a special occasion. I would recommend this book to have for special occasions, but it is NOT a book for every day use.
 not what i was looking for... January 7, 2002
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm one of those people who wants to find something yummy and simple. Plenty of the recipes were yummy, but none were simple. This book is a bit more complicated than I have time for. Being a vegan is hard enough without having to run all over town looking for obscure ingredients you'll only use 1/2 teaspoon of.
This would be a good book for entertaining guests and serving elaborate food, but I just wanted a book with simple skillet suppers and the like, a book I could use everyday.
Everything Good January 1, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have tried many of the receipes in this book. Not a single one has disappointed me. I have many other vegan and vegetarian cookbooks, the dishes are good, but sometimes without much flavor. Everything in this book has so much flavor. It is all very presentable too. I feel just fine serving these dished to a group of vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. And the receipes are all set up in menus if you are like me and have a hard time knowing what to serve with what.
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