How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food (How to Cook Everything)

We use this cookbook more than all of our others combined. I love Mark Bittman! There are many pages of reference-type materials like how to cook grains, and many ways of cooking everything, including mix-and-match ideas to use whatever you've got on hand. It's the cookbook that compliments the way I actually cook. Highly recommended.

I LOVE this cookbook. I checked it out from the library and had to buy one.

As a vegetarian I have been searching for a book that was more than just a compilation of vegetarian recipes and less than a lecture on the advantages of vegetarianism. I wanted something that would explain the details and give me some technical info on the subject.

This book satisfies in every way. For example consider the section on breads. Bittman gives you explanations on basic bread-making techniques, explains the differences between flours, leaveners, yeasts, kneading techniques, and so on. I found the tips on letting the oven preheat for at least an hour and planning your baking to make the best of your time to be examples of very practical advice.

The recipes for breads follow the detailed advice. This allows you to get the benefit of detailed explanations and easily access recipes if you have mastered the techniques.

Each section follows this pattern.

Following the information I learned in the bread-making section I have made the best loaf of banana bread I have ever made. In addition I have properly stocked my cabinets and now have a baking day with the kids.

Bittman is very easy to read; the right balance of information, personal stories, opinions, and humor. I actually ENJOY reading this cookbook. I don't think I have ever thought this about a cookbook. I have only previously read cookbooks as I would a dictionary.

If you are a new vegetarian or an experienced one you will find this book a highly valuable addition to your collection that will improve your cooking technique and the pleasure you get from eating vegetarian. Non-vegetarians will welcome Bittman's lack of preaching a vegetarian lifestyle. Vegans will find plenty of recipes and useful info. Until Bittman writes an "Everything Vegan" cookbook, this may be your best bet!

Buy this book, you won't regret it!

Easy to work with. Pick the ingredients that you have access to, and go to town. Lots of good ideas that you may never have heard or just forgot. You feel in command with these recipies, and not chasing around buying ingredients exactly as stated like most other cookbooks. Get creative.

I had high hopes for this cookbook. I need a great vegetarian cookbook. However, this is not it.

To me, most of the recipes in the book are not really recipes, but common sense cooking information. Saute garlic in olive oil and toss with pasta. Really? I couldn't believe this was an actual recipe that I paid for in this book.

Also, the organization is very poor. I do not like the way the index is set up at the back and there is no list of recipes in the table of contents or even at the beginning of each chapter. This is not conducive to flipping through the cookbook. You better know what you are looking for and what ingredients you want to use.

A good book but not exactly what I was looking for. Haven't tried any receipes.