Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete, Everyday Guide to Healthy, Delicious Eating with 500 VeganRecipes , Menus, Techniques, Meal Planning, Buying Tips, Wit, and Wisdom

I loved Christina's TV show, but have found this cookbook to be unreliable. One risotto recipe I followed completely skipped adding the broth. The other one (baked) took 1.5 hours to make, not the 25 minutes the cookbook claims; I also uncovered the dish after one hour as opposed to "tightly covering" as instructed.

The index is awkard. For example, carrot cake would normally be under "C", then "Carrot", the "Cake". In this index, it's under "18-Carat" instead of "Cake" - I eventually found it, but not the day I needed it! Instead I walked away, scratching my head wondering why a carrot cake recipe would be missing.

My success with replicating recipes from her TV show is much better than my success with following the recipes in the book. I find the book useful to inspire new recipes, but don't feel I can fully trust them. My copy is full of notes of improvement. It's fun for me to treat it as my basis for a test kitchen, but I don't recommend it for novice cooks.

Christina has been a vegetarian and then a vegan for a long time. When she says "this recipe will fool even the most finicky meat eaters", she's out of touch with reality.

There were only a few recipes that I could bring myself to try. My husband is pretty picky, and a meat eater. I was looking for some ways to reduce meat consumption. These will NOT fool him...ever.

The other problem with the book is that it assumes higher income, AND access to more rare foods than one will find in small, rural areas. The recipes have long, exotic ingredient lists. Each one is pretty expensive.

I've enjoyed her PBS show but don't try more of the recipes for the same reason. I can't find or afford what she's cooking. And recently, she's starting having an odd musical interlude in her program that's totally annoying...but that's a different story...

I like her, I like the concepts, I would probably eat it if she bought everything and cooked it...but hubby...no way. I need simpler, more accessible/affordable ingredients and recipes that stick to very few ingredients.

There are some tasty recipes in the book. The prelude in the book is interesting and it gives you a good break down of the different food items you might not be familiar with. I do prefer a cook book with pictures though.

learning a new way to cook good receipts with explanation is good the finished foods are great addition to my daily life

dissapointed with the amount of salt/sweetners /oils she uses. but have adapted .I have been following "Eat to Live "by DR. Joel Fuhrman so i am more of a green vegan.Cristina has many different and new ideas for putting different ingredients together

My recommendation for anyone considering this book is, "Don't expect it to be something it is not." If you have watched her T.V. show, you already know the kinds of ingredients she uses. This book is not a magic tool that suddenly makes you desire foods that you are not used to... but it is a helpful guide and incentive to try some different types of foods you may previously have ignored due to lack of knowledge or recipes.... this will give you some knowledge and recipes.
I am not a vegan, but I did want to increase my knowledge of ingredients (this book has a good glossary of food terms such as "Miso") and expand my repetoire of vegatable dishes which I may use for side dishes.
The book is full of recipes, yet for me, as a meat-eater, this is more a book of ideas rather than exact recipes. It helped me understand the function and use of some ingredients I was unfamiliar with, which got me thinking about my own combinations.
Also, I wanted to learn some more techniques which could be useful in temporary "survival situations" where meat may be harder to obtain.... what to do with all those beans, or with tofu which is a good shelf-stable meat substitute.
So, for me, the value of the book ended up being less about the exact recipes, and more about some information and ideas. It's not great, but it is pretty good! I gave it 4 stars because the book is what it claims to be. Don't be disappointed if it doesn't change your FEELINGS about a different way of eating.

A gift my daughter loves.

cooking with a nutritive purpose. macrobiotic. healing.

Worth buying this. It explains how to cook the food. Which food is healthy and not.

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