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The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest: [A Cookbook] (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking (Paperback)) - Katzen, Mollie Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

This second volume in Mollie Katzen's classic cooking series features over 200 vegetarian recipes and a bounty of kitchen guidance from one of America's dearest cookbook authors. Mollie first revised ENCHANTED BROCCOLI in 1995, adding lighter, easier-to-prepare versions of her signature recipes, plus a selection of new dishes and techniques. As with MOOSEWOOD, this new edition of ENCHANTED BROCCOLI is a companion volume to Mollie's new TV series, and features 16 pages of color food photography, plus 5 new recipes and a new section on making fresh pasta at home. Available in January 2000

Review

MOLLIE KATZEN is a cookbook author and artist who has profoundly shaped the way America eats. Mollie is a consultant and cocreator of Harvard's groundbreaking Food Literacy Project. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest

This second volume in Mollie Katzen's classic cooking series features over 200 vegetarian recipes and a bounty of kitchen guidance from one of America's dearest cookbook authors. Mollie first revised ENCHANTED BROCCOLI in 1995, adding lighter, easier-to-prepare versions of her signature recipes, plus a selection of new dishes and techniques. As with MOOSEWOOD, this new edition of ENCHANTED BROCCOLI is a companion volume to Mollie's new TV series, and features 16 pages of color food photography, plus 5 new recipes and a new section on making fresh pasta at home. Available in January 2000

This second volume in Mollie Katzen's classic cooking series features over 200 vegetarian recipes and a bounty of kitchen guidance from one of America's dearest cookbook authors."

The Enchanted Broccoli Forest-- and Other Timeless Delicacies

A collection of over 250 vegetarian recipes.

"Room will have to be made on cookbook shelves alongside Moosewood".--Publishers Weekly. 250 recipes. Handlettered. Indexed. Illustrated throughout."

The Enchanted Broccoli Forest

In this revision of her classic vegetarian cookbook, Katzen introduces many new ideas which reflect current cooking trends and offers a wealth of revised recipes. She includes changes that will simplify steps, additions and combinations, always keeping in mind her continuing attention to fat and cholesterol content. Illustrations.

In this revision of her classic vegetarian cookbook, Katzen introduces many new ideas which reflect current cooking trends and offers a wealth of revised recipes."

The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without

Sometimes we need a little inspiration when it comes to adding more vegetables to our plate. Thankfully for us, Mollie Katzen knows a thing or two about vegetables! On the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie presents just under 100 delicious vegetable side dishes in this delightful and beautiful cookbook. Whether you need an appetizer, a quick and easy snack for the kids, or something to accompany a main dish, this cookbook offers creative recipes and countless ways to infuse more vegetables into our diets. Both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike can benefit from these tasty and healthy side dishes, many of which you can even serve as stand-alone meals. The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without is an assortment of mostly new recipes, with new twists on some old favorites. Presented in her signature style and with her classic hand-drawn illustrations, these are the recipes she loves the most, and the recipes her millions of fans will most cherish.

Presented in her signature style and with her classic hand-drawn illustrations, these are the recipes she loves the most, and the recipes her millions of fans will most cherish."

Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less

From the dream team of Dr. Walter C. Willett, bestselling author of Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, and Mollie Katzen, author of the four million-copy bestselling Moosewood Cookbook, comes a new approach to weight loss Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less offers a medically sound, extremely effective program that shows people how they can lose weight by adding delicious food to their diet and making simple changes in what they eat throughout the day. It's flexible and adaptable--and it really works. It features a powerful way to chart your progress called the Body Score. The more you raise your Body Score, the more you will lower your weight! A quiz at the beginning of the book helps readers determine their Body Score; the chapters that follow explain easy dietary and behavioral steps readers can take to improve their scores. While the concept is simple, the science behind it is not. It represents years of top research conducted by Dr. Walter C. Willett, the head of Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition, including the famous Nurses Health Study. This study scored each of its over 84,000 participants on food choices, exercise schedule, and body mass--resulting in a number that accurately determined the nurses risk of heart disease. Now, for the first time, Dr. Willett has teamed up with mega-bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen to adapt a similar, much easier scoring system to create a user-friendly diet plan with fail-safe results. If you can raise your score, you will lower your weight--all while eating delicious, easy-to-prepare foods.

A quiz at the beginning of the book helps readers determine their Body Score; the chapters that follow explain easy dietary and behavioral steps readers can take to improve their scores."

The Heart of the Plate

Reinventing the traditional vegetarian repertoire, the author of the best-selling Moosewood Cookbook presents 250 recipes for simple and healthful dishes that celebrate vegetables in all their glory and juxtapose colors and textures to make weeknight dinners fresh and exciting.

This is her twelfth book. Lisa Keating $35.00 978-0-547-57159-1 1456641"

Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Soups

Mollie Katzen has been credited with moving vegetarian cooking from the fringes of American society onto mainstream dinner tables, and her celebrated soups have been mainstays for vegetarian and nonvegetarian home cooks alike for decades. Marking the 30th anniversary of her enormously popular MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK, this charming easel-backed cookbook brings together her classic hot and chilled soups, along with some new and tasty recipes, for the first time. Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless soup collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.A delectable collection of 50 soup recipes from the best-selling author of THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK, in a sturdy, compact easel format for easy reference while cooking. Includes perennial favorites from THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK and THE ENCHANTED BROCCOLI FOREST, plus five new sophisticated, easy-to-prepare soups from Mollie's current repertoire. First in the MOLLIE KATZEN'S RECIPES easel book series, with salads and desserts to follow. THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK is one of the top 10 best-selling cookbooks of all time, according to the New York Times. Mollie Katzen's books have sold more than 6 million copies.Watch Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook, speak at the JamesBeard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame awards

Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless soup collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.A delectable collection of 50 soup recipes from the best ..."

Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe

Breakfast is back! And Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe offers tasty, protein-rich, meatless breakfasts to boost your energy level and get you going first thing in the morning -- or any time of the day. Mollie Katzen provides simple, mouth-watering, healthful recipes and menus for every day of the week, whether you are preparing a sit-down brunch for ten, breakfast-on-the-go for kids running late, a light bite after a late night, or a luxurious breakfast in bed. Lavishly illustrated throughout with Mollie's luminous paintings, Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe is divided into 12 chapters of breakfast fare, including yogurt and cheese, griddled foods, muffins and biscuits, eggs and tofu, whole grain cereals, homemade breakfast bars and coffee cakes, puddings and custards -- and much more. In addition to showing you exactly how to make the perfect omelet or the crispiest waffles, Mollie offers irresistible recipes that range from the familiar Winter Fritata with Red Onions, Red Potatoes, and Goat Cheese, to the favorite Gingerbread Pancakes, to the surprising Basmati Almond Muffins, and on to irresistible Crispy Southwest Polenta Hash. And Mollie's energy-packed Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Protein Bars are certain to become a ray of sunshine in any kitchen.

Breakfast is back! And Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe offers tasty, protein-rich, meatless breakfasts to boost your energy level and get you going first thing in the morning -- or any time of the day."

Pretend Soup

What more can we say about this bestseller from Mollie Katzen (Moosewood Cookbook, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu) and educator Ann Henderson? A Children's Book of the Month Club Selection! Starred review -- School Library Journal! "An unusually accessible, attractive, process-oriented cookbook for preschoolers...with imaginative and appealing recipes". -- Horn Book

What more can we say about this bestseller from Mollie Katzen (Moosewood Cookbook, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu) and educator Ann Henderson?A Children's Book of the Month Club Selection Starred review -- School Library ..."

Icons of American Cooking

Presents the lives and careers of twenty-four American personalities involved in food and cooking, covering their education, travels, restaurants, written works, and awards. including such celebrities as James Beard, Julia Child, Mollie Katzen, Martha Stewart, and Alice Waters.

Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook , xiii. 10. ... Mollie Katzen , The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1982), 290. 14. ... Kim Severson, “ Cookbook Publishers Try to Think Small,” The New York Times (May 14, ..."

Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less

From the dream team of Dr. Willett, bestselling author of "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy," and Katzen, author of the bestselling "Moosewood Cookbook," comes a new approach to weight loss.

From the dream team of Dr. Willett, bestselling author of "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy," and Katzen, author of the bestselling "Moosewood Cookbook," comes a new approach to weight loss."

Hearts and Crafts-6 Copy Prepak

What more can we say about this bestseller from Mollie Katzen (Moosewood Cookbook, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu) and educator Ann Henderson? A Children's Book of the Month Club Selection! Starred review -- School Library Journal! "An unusually accessible, attractive, process-oriented cookbook for preschoolers...with imaginative and appealing recipes". -- Horn Book

What more can we say about this bestseller from Mollie Katzen (Moosewood Cookbook, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu) and educator Ann Henderson?"

History of Tofu and Tofu Products (1995-2022)

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 292 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

3–Third International Symposium on the Role of Soy in Preventing and Treating Chronic Disease, held in Washington, DC. ... Alford , Jeffrey ; Duguid , Naomi . 2000. Hot sour salty sweet : a culinary journey through Southeast Asia ."

Vegetarian Times

To do what no other magazine does: Deliver simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information, that's exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that's inviting to all. Because while vegetarians are a great, vital, passionate niche, their healthy way of eating and the earth-friendly values it inspires appeals to an increasingly large group of Americans. VT's goal: To embrace both.

Ornish's and McDougall's books, Dr . Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease (Random House, 1992) and The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart (Button, 1996), are full of tasty and healthful recipes tested in their clinics."

The New World of Eating

THE NEW WORLD OF EATING was voted "1995 Best Book of the Year in Category of Cooking" North American Book Dealers Exchange. THE NEW WORLD OF EATING is a modern cookbook with an emphasis on how to eat & cook to maintain superior health & ideal body weight. It is one of the first books with several detoxifying diets outlined in a "target diet." The book includes over 450 low-fat, not-fat, & raw recipes. The focal point of the book is the "target diet." There are six circles of the "target diet" & in the recipe section if a recipe falls into one of the circles the number is given after the recipe. THE NEW WORLD OF EATING suggests that one does not always eat the same way every day. One of the detoxifying diets may be a choice once a week. During a time of acute or chronic illness, an individual may follow a detoxifying diet for a period of time recommended by a primary care physician. THE NEW WORLD OF EATING is divided into 2 sections. Most of the first section explains the scientific rationale for low-fat, high-fiber, & detoxifying diets. Other topics that are included in the first section are goal setting & assessing eating behavior, food labeling, food safety, & how to raise healthy children. The author discusses how she raised her children according to the "target diet." Consequently, her children have never had over-the-counter or prescribed medicine. In addition, there are helpful hints throughout the book on cooking, storing & shopping. The second section of the book is the recipe section. It begins with some helpful hints for modifying recipes to decrease or omit fat & increase dietary fiber. The emphasis in the recipe section is how to creatively prepare quick, low-fat, high flavor, high fiber meals. Cooking with quality ancient grains such as quinoa, amaranth, millet, kamut & spelt is stressed throughout the recipe section. To order THE NEW WORLD OF EATING contact Nutritional Services Publishing, Inc., 572 Indian Boundary Road, Chesterton, IN, 46304, 1-800-694-FOOD (3663).

 Katzen , Mollie . MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK . Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1977. Katzen , Mollie . THE ENCHANTED BROCCOLI FOREST . Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1982. Klaper, Michael. PREGNANCY, CHILDREN AND THE VEGAN DIET."

History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1970-2022)

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 48 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Address: Dep. of History, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. the Jewish Christian groups were the Ebionites, ... Alford , Jeffrey ; Duguid , Naomi . 2000. Hot sour salty sweet : a culinary journey through Southeast Asia ."

Vegetarian Cooking For Dummies

If you thought you had to be a nutritionist to figure out a vegetarian diet, it’s actually a lot simpler than you think. Eating vegetarian, in addition to being healthy and delicious, is just plain fun. Discovering new and exotic vegetables like celeriac or kohlrabi will widen your palate as well as your sense of adventure in the kitchen. Plus, vegetarian cuisine is chockfull of dishes that are robust and flavorful, and a match for any standard meat dish. And, most important of all, eating a plateful of vegetarian lasagna or pasta primavera, or any other scrumptious dish prepared vegetarian style will let you indulge—without guilt! With Vegetarian Cooking For Dummies, you’ll get the skinny on just what lacto-ovo, lacto, and just plain vegan diets are all about and how to create nutritious meals from the rich cornucopia of whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and dairy and egg substitutes that are the staple of the vegetarian menu. You’ll also find out: How to get your full complement of protein and vitamins, including calcium, iron, C, B12, and zinc—and from what, often surprising, food sources How to successfully convert to a vegetarian diet How to stock up a vegetarian pantry—including tips on where to shop, starting a kitchen garden, as well as handy weekly and monthly food lists Vegetarian cooking basics—including preparing ingredients, cooking beans and grains, handling tofu and tempeh, washing and cutting fruits and vegetables Simple cooking techniques—including baking, boiling, steaming, sautéing, and stewing The ins and outs of vegetarian etiquette Not only will you become fully acquainted with the new and delicious world of meat replacements (like tofu, tempeh, seitan, textured vegetable protein, veggie burgers and franks) and egg, dairy, yogurt and cheese substitutes, you’ll see how truly simple and enjoyable cooking vegetarian can be. With over delicious 100 recipes, you’ll find yourself choosing among such soon-to-be favorites as: Smoothie snacks—including a Caramel Apple Smoothie and a Winter Berry Smooth Breakfast dishes—including Savory Mushroom Tofu Quiche, Healthy Pancakes, and French Toasties Delicious dips—including Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, and Fresh Avocado and Lime Dip Soups for all seasons—including Vegetarian Chili with Cashews and Southern Sweet Onion Soup Scrumptious salads—including Festive Broccoli Salad, Tofu Salad, and Lentil Vinaigrette Salad Entrees for everyone—including Basic Bean Burritos, Spinach and Mushroom Manicotti, Garden Pizza, and Tempeh Sloppy Joes Full of tips on adapting traditional recipes to vegetarian style cooking, plus a spicy spin on old standbys like Home Fries, Vegetarian Cooking For Dummies lets you reinvent the vegetarian lifestyle to suit your needs and tastes. With pages of full-color photos, black-and-white how-to illustrations, and humorous cartoons along the way, this fun, informative, and upbeat guide makes every meal an exciting step in the journey toward lifelong health.

Katzen has published several other excellent cookbooks as well, including Mollie Katzen 's Vegetable Heaven (Hyperion) and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Ten Speed Press). Both Moosewood and Laurel 's Kitchen (see the following section) ..."

Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

From the discovery of fire to the latest space mission, the Encyclopedia of Kitchen History brings together the rich diversity of kitchen history in one accessible volume. Students, researchers, scholars, and culinary aficionados- from beginners to experts- will find this Encyclopedia to be a fascinating look into the history of the kitchen from the foodstuffs prepared to the tools and implements used as well as the innovators who shaped its function and utility.

American Negro (1958) and Jim Harwood and Ed Callahan's Soul Food Cookbook (1969) preceded a deluge of recipes from ... with her Moosewood Cookbook (1972), The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982), Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven (1997), ..."

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home

Offers more than 150 time-efficient and easy-to-follow recipes for healthy dishes, many of them vegetarian, along with tips on cooking techniques, menu planning, and more.

Offers more than 150 time-efficient and easy-to-follow recipes for healthy dishes, many of them vegetarian, along with tips on cooking techniques, menu planning, and more."

Behind Every Great Chef, There's a Mom!

Now in paperback, today's top chefs unlock their mothers' secret recipe file and share the dishes that inspired them to cook! Behind every great chef there's a great mom . . . and a great recipe file. This cookbook collection pulls Mom's best recipes from celebrated chefs nationwide, so that you can share them with your own family and friends.

 Mollie Katzen , with more than 5 million books in print, is listed by The New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of ... favorite recipes and unique artwork in The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and Still Life with Menu."

The Myrtlewood Cookbook

Experience beautiful home cooking that takes its cues from the kitchen gardens and forest harvests of the Pacific Northwest. Andrew Barton and his friends run Secret Restaurant Portland, a monthly supper club. After hosting dinners for five years, a culinary style emerged that reflected his practical approach to cooking: accessible recipes alive with flavor, lovely on the plate and the palate. The Myrtlewood Cookbook brings forth 100 recipes that amplify the tastes, colors, and textures of summer tomatoes, fall mushrooms, winter roots, and spring greens. You will gain nearly as much from reading these recipes as from cooking them. Whether you are inspired to make Nettle Dumplings in Sorrel Broth, Candied Tomato Puttanesca, or Russet/Rye Apple Pie, be prepared to swoon under the spell of Myrtlewood.* *The Myrtlewood tree is found on the same ground as fiddlehead ferns, nettles, and other wild foods characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. The plates, bowls and cutting boards carved from Myrtlewood shown in this book connect to the land where this cookbook was created.

Cooking can be about just getting fed, but it should often be about learning how to make new things and getting closer to ... home where the Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen stood side by side."

The Moosewood Cookbook

The Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to cook simple, healthy, and seasonal food. A classic listed as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time by the New York Times, this 40th anniversary edition of Mollie Katzen's seminal book will be a treasured addition to the cookbook libraries of fans young and old. In 1974, Mollie Katzen hand-wrote, illustrated, and locally published a spiral-bound notebook of recipes for vegetarian dishes inspired by those she and fellow cooks served at their small restaurant co-op in Ithaca, NY. Several iterations and millions of copies later, the Moosewood Cookbook has become one of the most influential and beloved cookbooks of all time—inducted into the James Beard Award Cookbook Hall of Fame, and coined a Cookbook Classic by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Mollie’s Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to fall in love with plant-based home cooking, and, on the fortieth anniversary of that initial booklet, continues to be a seminal, timely, and wholly personal work. With a new introduction by Mollie, this commemorative edition will be a cornerstone for any cookbook collection that long-time fans and those just discovering Moosewood will treasure.

time—listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbooksin history, inducted intothe James Beard Award ... Her twelve titles include the classic Enchanted Broccoli Forest , a trilogyof cookbooks for children (dubbed ..."

How to Quit Drugs for Good

Free Yourself from Addiction Quitting drugs may be the best thing you can do for yourself and your loved ones. But it can also be the toughest challenge of your life. This book can help. Jerry Dorsman, author of the acclaimed How to Quit Drinking Without AA and a respected therapist who specializes in addiction recovery, has helped thousands of people quit drugs and get on with their lives. In How to Quit Drugs for Good, Dorsman helps you find the best approach to beating any drug habit—from barbiturates and prescription drugs to marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Through a series of self-discovery exercises, worksheets, and checklists, you will learn how to: ·Determine if you have a drug problem ·Examine your individual reasons for using drugs ·Decide when and how you want to quit ·Develop your own treatment plan ·Choose the techniques that will work for you ·Create your own success ·And much, much more!

 New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Still Life with Menu, by Mollie Katzen . Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1988 (or try The Enchanted Broccoli Forest or The Moosewood Cookbook , also by Mollie Katzen ). The Ancient Cookfire, by Carrie ..."

The Vegetarian Flavor Bible

Throughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety of reasons, from ethics to economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor -- which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is an essential guide to culinary creativity, based on insights from dozens of leading American chefs, representing such acclaimed restaurants as Crossroads and M.A.K.E. in Los Angeles; Candle 79, Dirt Candy, and Kajitsu in New York City, Green Zebra in Chicago, Greens and Millennium in San Francisco, Natural Selection and Portobello in Portland, Plum Bistro in Seattle, and Vedge in Philadelphia. Emphasizing plant-based whole foods including vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, the book provides an A-to-Z listing of hundreds of ingredients, from avßav? to zucchini blossoms, cross-referenced with the herbs, spices, and other seasonings that best enhance their flavor, resulting in thousands of recommended pairings. The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is the ideal reference for the way millions of people cook and eat today -- vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores alike. This groundbreaking book will empower both home cooks and professional chefs to create more compassionate, healthful, and flavorful cuisine.

— MOLLIE KATZEN , CO-FOUNDER, THE MOOSEWOOD COLLECTIVE “Aside from Tofu Cookery (1983), my very first cookbooks were all Mollie Katzen cookbooks , like Moosewood and Enchanted Broccoli Forest . Those were the books that got me started."

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