The Vegetarian Flavor Bible : The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs: A Thriller

As a chef I have in just the one week I have owned this book found it to be useful, I’ve always been passionate about pairing flavours and textures, whilst I know an awful lot, so it’s great to take on board the ideas and experiences of other chefs.Good fun reading the history of vegetarianism,However, it’s a great shame this book is has been targeted for only the American market, with the general excellence of pairing food science, I fail to see how the authors only uses American cups, teaspoons, dessert spoons as a way of quantifying ingredients, an then inconsistently measuring with cups, spoons…just use one!, of course the English have a cup system too, but rarely used (for obvious reasons). I haven’t seen an UK English cookbook that didn’t have imperial and metric measurements, so why not this book? Metric is world standard…use it.I am pretty well acquainted with the “AKA’s” (also known as), so I can navigate through the book easily, however for someone who is not familiar with Zucchi, but knows what a courgette is, this book won’t be too useful, so have the “AKA’s” listed in an alternative index would be useful…again the American influenceIt is also unfortunate that the required research has not been done, for example Mace is not a botanical relative of Nutmeg, but dried reddish aril (extra seed covering) of the Nutmeg, furthermore I can’t really see the usefulness of saying that a another plant is a botanical relative, or belongs to the same order, family or genus is of any use in a cookbook, perhaps it’s just good for after dinner conversation, I’d want to be talking about flavours though after my dinner…there are a lot of mistakes in this book, conclusion, this book is just a handy reference for those already in the know….Still, if all you want is a guide to pairing flavours, then this book is useful and worth having on your bookshelf.

This is great if you want to get ideas about flavour combinations because it has thousands of them. I love having it to look at for ideas. It doesn't have recipes. It's a bit pricey though so make sure it's really worth it to you.

I use this book a lot for my cookery course. I find it indispensable.

I'm just getting in to this and so far I love it! Not just a flavour bible but a lot of health advice and quotes from inspirational health leaders.Quick delivery.

Awful book - do not buy.