Moosewood Restaurant Favorites: The 250 Most-Requested, Naturally Delicious Recipes from One of America's Best-Loved Restaurants

by The Moosewood Collective

Overview

This selection of healthy recipes from one of America's most beloved restaurants is a perfect gift for aspiring gourmets.

Moosewood Restaurant, founded in 1973, revolutionized vegetarian cooking by introducing delicious soups, satisfying sandwiches, warming casseroles, zesty entrees, spiffy salads, and divine desserts. Moosewood Restaurant Favorites contains 250 of their most requested recipes completely updated and revised to reflect the way they're cooked now-increasingly vegan and gluten-free, benefiting from fresh herbs, new varieties of vegetables, and the wholesome goodness of newly-rediscovered grains.

This mouthwatering cookbook includes favorites like:
- Red Lentil Soup with Ginger and Cilantro
- Sweet-Potato and Black Bean Burrito
- The Classic Moosewood Tofu Burger
- Caramelized Onion Pie
- Peruvian Quinoa Salad
- Confetti Kale Slaw
- Vegan Chocolate Cake
- Moosewood Restaurant Brownies
- Apple Spice Cake with Sesame Seeds

Including a guide to natural-cooking techniques, Moosewood Restaurant Favorites is the next classic book on their much-loved cookbook shelf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250006257
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	177,057
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

THE MOOSEWOOD COLLECTIVE has nineteen members who share responsibilities and participate in the various jobs necessary to run what has grown from a very small natural foods restaurant to a larger and more diversified company. Some members have worked for the restaurant since it was founded in 1973.

Editorial Reviews

For four decades, the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York has been satisfying diners with its imaginatively designed vegetarian meals; and for only a few years less, it has been spreading with the word with inviting cookbooks. The latest installment serves as a 40th anniversary celebration, collecting the 250 most-requested dishes from the eatery and its cookbooks. All the Moosewood classics are here; from the Classic Moosewood Tofu Burger and Sweet-Potato and Black Bean Burrito to the die-for Vegan Chocolate Cake and the famous Moosewood Restaurant Brownies. Definitely a kitchen shelf keeper.

The iconic Moosewood restaurant in Ithaca, N.Y., is known for its vegetarian cuisine and has been serving food for 40 years. Moosewood is owned by a collective of 19 passionate (mostly self-taught) cooks who run the restaurant and write cookbooks. The latest installment—their 13th collection (five have been nominated for James Beard awards, and two have won)—is a delightful “best of” collection of the restaurant’s most popular dishes, as well as some recipes that haven’t previously been published. The book is straightforward, with small international twists. Hearty, flavorful soups include classics like Moosewood’s famous cream of spinach and French onion, as well as the more exotic West African Peanut Soup and Chilled Cantaloupe-Amaretto Soup. There are fun spins on the traditional burger: Curried Red Lentil Burgers, and Mushroom-Tofu-Pecan Burgers, along with seasonal salad plates. Other chapters include “Beans,” “Frittatas and Pies,” “Casseroles,” “Stuffed Vegetables,” “Tofu,” “Pasta,” and “Fish.” There’s something for everyone in this comprehensive and extremely useful cookbook, which stresses community living and eating meals with style. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

When seeking a marker of the changes in the cookbook market over the last 40 years, one need look no further than Ithaca, New York.” —Publishers Weekly

“Well-done, Moosewood! You have become a beloved part of American cultural history and morphed into a truly national institution that most of us know through the cookbooks that have emerged. One after the other, those enticing combinations of delicious recipes and lively prose have borne witness to Moosewood's most compelling idea: "community" - that harmonious feeling among a group of people that takes place in the kitchen and at the table as we share a commitment to good food and being together. Moosewood Restaurant Favorites will introduce a new generation to a beloved institution and call up happy memories of meals and recipes over the years.” —Nancy Harmon Jenkins, author of The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, The Essential Mediterranean and many others

“As any experienced cook knows, extracting the savor of vegetables, completely without meat, presents its own special difficulties. Fortunately, the Moosewood collective has succeeded in meeting those challenges and produced a fine book of direct and simple recipes, each with its own savory twists. This thorough book will delight vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike and will become a cornerstone in any cook's library. In short, Moosewood has elevated meatless cooking to the level of great cuisine and artfully showcases vegetarian cooking at its finest.” —James Peterson, author of 15 cookbooks and winner of 7 James Beard Awards

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