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| Author: Delia Smith
Creator: Victoria Wood
Publisher: BBC Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 2081
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11 x 10 x 1
ISBN: 0563488182
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9780563488187
ASIN: 0563488182
Publication Date: October 17, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 My favourite cookbook! March 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
To sum this book up in one word...excellent! I asked for this as a Christmas present and wasn't disappointed. I've already tried several dishes from it and all of them have been a success, which is unusual for me! It's very easy to use, recipes are of simple, good food you want to eat and even my boyfriend who isn't vegetarian has thoroughly enjoyed the dishes i've cooked for him so far. The best (and most used) vegetarian cookbook I own!
 Thanks Delia! December 28, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm lucky, I guess that I don't own any other Delia books, other than her "Puddings" as this seems to be a collection of the various meat free recipes that are dotted through other books. However, it's nice that such a mainstream author deems us veggies worthy of having a book of our own!
Some of the recipes in the books are excellent, others are more standard "run-of-the-mill" ones, but that's not to detract from them.
This book is always one that I turn to when I can't find something in one of my other books and more often than not, I find some inspiration in here. The twice baked souffles must be the easiest souffles to make - and are guaranteed to impress and the parsnip roulade graced my Christmas dinner table a few years back. I wouldn't have this as my only cookbook, but its definitely worth having it in your collection.
On a final note Delia's Pears in Red Wine Galettes helped me pass my Cordon Vert Diploma. Thanks Delia!
 Good but could be a lot better October 5, 2006
55 out of 57 found this review helpful
Some of the recipies in this book are fantastic. Compared to the Linda McCartney type books out there this offers some real food with real recipies that you could see falling of the menu at a rosetted restuarant (in fact I'm almost sure I have).
Though there are some major flaws:
1. It's just recylced Delia recipies from her "How to Cook" series: nothing new here at all.
2. The food is cheese, cheese, cheese and egg. This makes the recipies both fat fat fat (a Delia trait though) and lack variety (if you don't like cheese there's probably only 2 recipies in here!)
3. Most of the meals are small (starters, salads, soups, lite-bites) and little main meals.
4. The book lacks supporting information. Delia rarely advises you on how to prepare the meals, source good ingrediants (as other good cook books do) offer alternatives or variations or give advice on what to serve the dish with (great, I've cooked a rosti what should go with it?). Though to be honest this is Delia's usual totalitarian approach to cooking: she makes out there's only one way to cook a meal and every ingrediant must be exact (for example 8% fat fromage frais: why exactly 8%?) or the whole thing will go disasterously.
5. There is little vegetable cooking (as I said mostly cheese and egg), though there is a section it is small and lacks vegetables to support your main meal rather than replace it and it also lacks how to just do great boiled potatoes or great asparagus or great...
That being said its a good start to offering a little more of a professional approach to Vegetarian cooking but it is a book to add to your collection and stretch you repetoir a little rather than revolutionise it.
everyone should have this book October 1, 2006
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a great book. It has some many vegetarian recipes that are easy to make and really fantastic to make. They are delicious even if you are not a vegetarian and they should encourage non vegetarians to try and have some really great meals without meat. One of the best veggie cookbooks that I have . Highly recommended !
yumdiddly! May 28, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was given this by my parents (non veggies) before I came to university and, just about to leave my second year, I still find myself using this book a few times a week! The soups section is amazing, and have kept me alive on about 60p a day at times! Although its probably only going to be bought by veggies, I think thats a shame because there are so many really delicious recipes that I have cooked for meat-eating friends - and they loved em! It's also very very easy to follow which was good for me and probably most other student veggies!
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