One-inch thick hardcover, filled with over 250 vegetarian recipes, influenced by the food of Europe, Mexico, Japan, Northern Africa and many other countries. Each recipe is clearly laid out. It's a weekend cooking book - for when you're happy to spend a bit more time.

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Product Description

The Greens Cookbook is that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay. Not only for vegetarians, this book caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating. Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, it shows how to present a feast for the eyes as well as for the palate.
The Greens Cookbook contains more than 260 recipes for all seasons, all occasions, all tastes. From bright, simple salads to beautifully spiralled roulades, here is a provocative, sophisticated and varied fare, dedicated to elegance and balance, taste and texture, color and freshness.
The Greens Cookbook presents everything you need to know to create and enjoy at home meals that draw rave reviews in the restaurant. Inside you will find: Inspiring menus for spring, summer, winter, fall. Everything from easy-to-prepare dishes for two to meals for a gala feast. The first guide to selecting wines with vegetable dishes. Glossaries of unfamiliar ingredients and useful kitchen equipment. A generous and encouraging text that helps develop your skill and self-expression as a cook. Insightful professional tips heading each recipe, and much more.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39287 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04
• Released on: 2001-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Amazon.com Review
Packed with recipes from the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant in San Francisco that regularly please vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike, Greens is this cook's personal favorite cookbook. From New Potato and Grilled Pepper Pizza to Zuni Stew, these recipes are consistently innovative and delicious. --MTB

"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant. The cuisine is elegant, inspiring, and astonishingly creative. Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing. Congratulations!" --Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook

From Publishers Weekly
The founding chef of the Zen Center of San Francisco's Greens Restaurant tantalizes readers with more than 275 stellar vegetarian recipes. Drawing upon a variety of traditionsSouthern France and Italy, Asia, Mexico and the American SouthwestMadison encourages the use of fresh vegetables, herbs and spices, quality oils and other staples, the building of flavors with stocks and the harmonizing of tastes, textures and colors. Mealtimes will be vibrant, sensory celebrations when readers serve up Mexican vegetable soup with lime and avocado, red and yellow pepper tart, goat-cheese pizza with red onions and green olives, zucchini-and-basil filo with pine nuts, blueberry cream-cheese tart and Brazilian chocolate cake. A cornucopia of seasonal menus, extensive directions, wine suggestions, and glossaries of kitchen equipment and ingredients enhance this superior collection. Brown wrote The Tassajara Bread Book, etc. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"Reading through these delicious recipes, I'm impressed by a certan refined taste and style and consistently critical and good palate that comes through.  The book is especially important because it's vegetarian, and the excellence of ingredients makes the dishes irresistible."
--Alice Waters, Chez Panisse

"For all of us who remember the glorious dishes Deborah Madison created at Greens, this book is a particular pleasure.  What makes it special is not only her enticing and original way with fruits and vegetables, but her generous and inventive spirit."
--Carol Field, The Italian Baker

"This dazzling cookbook presents a new cuisine that is intelligent, inventive and above all delicious.  This is brilliantly crafted food that.just happens to be made without meat.  Bravo!"
--Anthony Dias-Blue, CBS Radio Food Critic and Nationally Syndicated Columnist, American Wine

Farm-fresh produce never tasted so good.  The Greens Cookbook elevated vegatarian cooking to new heights.  Every page introduces you to a wonderfully inventive recipe."
--Diane Rossen Worthington, The Cuisine of California

"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant.  The cuisine is elegant, inspiring and astonishingly creative.  Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing.  Congratulations!"
--Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest -- Review

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Customer Reviews

An adventure in Vegetarian Cooking
The Greens Cookbook
This is a tremendous book! I have used it consistently for the last three years and love it. It opens all sorts of culinary doors to the user/reader. The recipes, for the most part, do take time to prepare--My rule is at least one hour on preprep and one hour to cook. The results are spectacular. It is probably a better book for the experienced or adventurous cook. You do have to be willing to push the edge of the envelope and try things you might not otherwise try. One can get everything on the internet so it takes planning more than effort (I live in a rural area of southern VA with no serious grocer nearby). Highly recommended if you enjoy cooking and love depth and subtleties of excellent food.

Fantastic for fresh produce
Every recipe I tried from this book is sublime. Its fantastic when I want to make something truly gourmet from fresh homegrown or farmer's market produce. As other reviewers have said, the recipes are time consuming, not for everyday use, but for special meals.

fabulous veg based cookbook!
I have been a BIG fan of Greens for many years and until I could afford to buy my own copy of this cookbook, I regularly borrowed it from our local library. The recipes are tasty and once you've made it once, it becomes easier to make it your own and, dare I say, even add meat or tofu. The chinese noodle salad is one of the most requested recipes by our family...hope you get to enjoy it too!