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| Recipes for a Small Planet | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellen Buchman Ewald
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 71929
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0345324927
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9780345324924
ASIN: 0345324927
Publication Date: February 12, 1985
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 Old fashioned vegetarian cookbook January 16, 2008
With lots of milk, eggs, and cheese, many of the recipes are "stick to the ribs" vegetarian. I consider it the "old-fashioned" vegetarian style and sometimes, that's just what I want. A great companion to Diet for a Small Planet.
 Came at the Right Time July 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I had decided to become vegetarian some 33 years ago, I had no idea what I was doing and got very sick within a few days. I did not realize how difficult it was to go from meat and potatoes to having veggies be more than a side dish and garnish. A friend who was an Episcopal Priest, Charles Pedersen, recommended the book. After eating a few of the recipes, especially the quiches, I was healthy again and have been able to be consistently and happily vegetarian since then. Although after 8 years of being lacto ovo vegetarian I shifted to becoming vegan, I still remember the book with fondness and am thankful for the healthy and nutritious recipes. I have passed on more than a few copies to others who are starting their vegetarian journey and found others have enjoyed it as well.
 Nearly Useless May 5, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've owned this cookbook for years. A well-meaning relative gave it to me when I first became a vegetarian 16 years ago, and it's a good thing that I didn't start to try recipes from this book early on, because I would have given up on vegetarianism. There are some decent bread recipes here, but the remainder are almost uniformly terrible. Nutritious, perhaps, but also tasteless without a seeming thought to presentation or texture. This book represents the worst of early vegetarian cooking in America, and I have yet to prepare a single recipe from this book that I found to be truly appetizing, or that I would (heaven forbid) serve to guests. I didn't sell my copy because I wouldn't inflict this sort of thing on an unsuspecting victim - I recycled my copy.
Nutritious and delicious March 14, 2006
Though one reviewer felt the format of this book was a poor choice, I found it to be perfect. I can leave a spare copy with one of my grocery bags so that I can pick out a new recipe or two while at the grocery store. I find that this lets me find the freshest foods available.
What I like most about this book is that with a little preperation and fore thought, you can do much of your cooking for meals in advance, and just combine ingredients and heat when meal time comes. This can be done because many of the recipes call for "cooked rice" or "cooked peas". I find that this also allows you to use leftovers up quickly, in new recipes.
One note, though, is that this book is not Vegan by any means. Many of the recipes call for dairy products and eggs.
Overall, it is a lovely lovely book and a must for those trying to live lightly on the earth.
My first vegetarian cookbook August 18, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A friend gave me this book (the spiral edition) in 1973, and it truly changed my life -- I became a vegetarian immediately. This is where I learned how to cook and eat all kinds of food that I'd never seen before, especially beans. I am not crazy about the "breakfast" recipes, but the breads in this cookbook are great. I have over a hundred cookbooks, and I still make the lasagne with adzuki beans (complicated) and the potato soup (easy). Almost every page in my book is either stained or annotated or both.
The only disadvantage to this cookbook is that many recipes call for dairy products and eggs -- things that I still enjoy after 29 years, but that I am not allowed to eat as often these days!
This is a classic, educational cookbook for vegetarians.
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