#AusReadingMonth 2021 Cookbook nr 3
- Author: Alice Zaslavsky
- Title: In Praise of Veg
- Published: 2020
- Monthly reading plan
- #NonFicNov 2021
- #AusReadingMonth2021 @bronasbooks
- #AWW 2021
Award:
- In Praise of Veg won the 2021 ABIA (@abia_awards)
- …for the best non-fiction illustrated book.
- This award is voted on by members of the publishing industry.
- The longlist is selected by a group of 250 publishers and book-sellers
- The winner is decided on by an esteemed panel of experts.
Quick Scan:
- 50 favorite vegetable varieties, offering 150+ recipes.
- The book is filled with countless tips on flavor combinations,
- rule-of-thumb buying/storing/cooking methods,
- shortcuts, and veg wisdom from over 50 of the world’s top chefs.
- Strong point: Very Educational
- ...and I thought I knew enough about veggies…but I learned so much
Conclusion:
- After reading Basics to Brillance by Donna Hay….on black paper
- …this book is a joy to open!
- The book is 70% reading….and 30% recipes.
- Weak point: recipes lacked imagination….
- I had the feeling I’d read these cooking suggestions in other books!
- I did find some very good tips about storing veggies and herbs
- …but the recipes were a big disappointment.
- Strong point: book is a visual delight!
- Within the pages of In Praise of Veg, the recipes are refreshingly grouped
- …together according to the color of each vegetable.
- Strong point: book is about vegetables but NOT purely plant-based
- Ms Zaslavsky says: “… it is a “plant-forward” source of inspiration.”
- The premise is… “to start with veg and build a dish around it”.
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NancyElin.blog 
I wonder how a book with uninamginative recipes won this award? Maybe there aren’t very many adult illustrated nonfiction books?
…there is a lot to learn in this book about veggies…not really cooking them!
I suppose it doesn’t say “recipe book” does it.
This is a book I recommend to customers who are just starting out with vegetarianism, esp teen girls. It’s colourful and as you say, the recipes are simple and easy for someone new to cooking.
This is a very good choice for a ‘vegan newbie’. The book is a visual delight
and one can dip into a ‘veggie’ sections and discover a world of delicious eating without meat/fowl. Reviewing a cookbook is not easy…it is just the reader’s impression of the book.
Everybody will have to discover the one that works for them. My ‘go-to’ book is still Rachel Khoo “The Little Paris Kitchen” (2012).
Her quiche Lorraine is a family favourite here too.