Customer Reviews

An education in vegetable preparation - By: Robert Cavanagh, 27 Nov 2003
Arto der Haroutunian isin fine form here, expanding his usual culinary boundaries of the Mediterranean & Middle East to the whole world. This is not a vegetarian cookbook as the author points but a celebration of vegetable cookery from Serbia to Sweden, Brazil to Burma & most placesin between. Scarcely a vegetable forgotten as we sample potatos from Peru, Ponkie from Ghana, Afganistan style kohlrabi & Libyan fried salsify. Virtually all recipes are embellished with anecdotes from throughout history, as the author takes us on a wonderful journey through time & space. You will find no rice or pasta dishes here, this is a book where the vegetable stands up for itself. I have recently bought a replacement copy as my old one has seen a phenomonal amount of use with those stained pages a reminder of previous culinary adventures. This one I will keep for my children.