Venturesome Vegetarian Cooking

Vegetarian Journal, Jan-Feb, 2005

By J.M. Hirsch and Michelle Hirsch

Venturesome

Vegetarian Cooking certainly lives up to its name. This new cookbook serves up a wide range of innovative dishes. All the recipes are vegan except for a handful containing honey, which can easily be substituted with rice syrup or maple syrup. Especially interesting items are the Pumpkin Bread, Roasted Tempeh Salad with Lemon-Vinegar Sauce, Italian Spinach, (eggless) Homemade Pasta, Vegetarian Haggis (a Scottish dish), Peppery Pumpkin Risotto, Carrot Cake, Chocolate Fudge Pie, and Spare-The-Pigs Hash. The book also includes beautiful photographs.

Venturesome Vegetarian Cooking (ISBN 1-57284-064-1) retails for $21.95 in bookstores. This 210-page book is published by Surrey Books (www.surreybooks.com). Reviewed by Debra Wasserman.