Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes

by Deborah Madison

Hardcover, 2013

Status

Available

Call number

641.6 M2656

Genres

Food & Cooking

Nonfiction

All Topics

Collections

Your library, Cookbooks

Publication

Ten Speed Press (2013), Edition: 1, 416 pages

Description

Shows how vegetables from the same family can be interchanged to complement other flavors and includes over one hundred recipes, including grilled asparagus with tarragon butter, potato cakes with red chile molido, and chive and saffron crepes.

User reviews

LibraryThing member NellieMc

With numerous cookbooks, I'm very fussy about ones that I now buy. This one I can recommend wholeheartedly because it really assumes interest and intelligence on the part of the reader. I thought it was great - not very many recipes but rather she discusses vegetables (including grains and beans,

by the way) in the context of their genetic families. She emphasizes that the relationships mean that not only can they often be substituted for each other but that the same compatible flavors that work with one member of the family will probably work with the others. In other words, she encourages experimental cooking on a rational scientific bases. One of the few cookbooks I actually have read cover to cover in the living room.

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LibraryThing member dooney

Excellent cookbook that groups vegetables by family and discusses the ways they work together. The book is interesting to read, and assumes some experience and intelligence in the reader. It is not purely factual, but a winning combination of information and personal experience. The recipes are

excellent.

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LibraryThing member kmajort

Really more of a coffee table book than a cook book.

LibraryThing member allriledup

*disclaimer* I haven't read this book from cover to cover. For me, it falls into a reference category and as such is a treasure-trove of information and ideas. It is organized by the 12 major plant families with entries on most vegetables. I've made the braised fennel with saffron and tomato which

was delicious. I have had fun riffing on this sauce for the past month and it is delicious with fish.

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LibraryThing member janemarieprice

There are some good things here and beautiful photography, but the European leaning means that some things aren't featured enough or too much, and quantities need translating sometimes.

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