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Book Description:
The award-winning cookbook that’s not just for vegetarians

Carol Gelles, one of the best-known authorities on the subject, offers hundreds of appetizers, entrees, soups, salads, and more, proving that vegetarian cuisine is anything but boring. The flavor combinations are limitless, drawing on the ingredients and spices from every international cuisine. Discussions of vegetables, grains, beans, and soyfoods are interspersed throughout the recipes, making the book easy enough for beginners to follow. And every recipe is coded as lacto-vegetarian (some dairy products), ovo-vegetarian (some egg products), or vegan (made without dairy or meat products).

What can readers expect to find inside?

The recipes draw on ingredients and spices from every international cuisine. Discussions of vegetables, grains, beans and soyfoods are spread through the book.

Do I need experience to use it?

The book description says the discussions make the book “easy enough for beginners to follow”.

How are the recipes labelled?

Every recipe is coded as lacto-vegetarian (some dairy products), ovo-vegetarian (some egg products) or vegan (made without dairy or meat products).

What kind of book is 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes?

The description calls it an award-winning cookbook that is “not just for vegetarians”, with hundreds of appetizers, entrees, soups, salads and more.

Who wrote it?

The book is credited to Carol Gelles, who the description calls one of the best-known authorities on the subject in the title.

Everything above comes from the book description on its Amazon page.

How can I stock a kitchen for meatless cooking?

A large recipe collection works best with a well-stocked pantry. Staples include dried or tinned beans and lentils, whole grains such as rice and oats, pasta, nuts and seeds, tinned tomatoes, stock, oils, vinegar and spices. Fresh items can then be bought weekly around those foundations.

For leftovers and batch cooking, the USDA FSIS leftovers guide is simple: refrigerate within two hours, keep three to four days, or freeze for three to four months. Label containers with the date so food gets used.

Cooking from a book with hundreds of recipes is easier if you choose one new recipe a week and repeat favourites. Many dishes stretch across meals, which saves money.

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Book: 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes by Carol Gelles
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Book Description:
There are already a good many vegetarian cookery books, ranging in price from one penny to halfa-crown, but yet, when I am asked, as not unfrequently happens, to recommend such a book, I know of only one which at all fulfils the requirements, and even that one is, I find, rather severely criticised by ladies who know anything about the matter. To have to live by some of them would almost make a vegetarian turn meat-eater. Most are compilations from other books with the meat dishes left out, and a little porridge and a few beans and peas thrown in. All of them, I believe, contain a lot of puddings and sweets, which certainly are vegetarian, but which can be found in any ordinary cookery book. What is required is a book that will enable us to provide something to take the place of meat, which, while nourishing, shall at the same time be palatable. This the present book aims at doing.

Book: New Vegetarian Dishes by Mrs Bowdich
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Book Description:
An all-new edition of America’s favorite guide to bringing up baby as a vegetarian, this book incorporates all the latest information to answer questions and lay to rest any lingering doubts about a vegetarian regimen for infants.

What is this book about?

The description presents it as an all-new edition of a guide to bringing up a baby as a vegetarian.

Who is the author?

The title credits Sharon Yntema as the author.

What can readers expect to find inside?

It says the book includes the latest information to answer questions and “lay to rest any lingering doubts” about a vegetarian regimen for infants. The description does not list the individual topics.

Summary of the book description only, not medical advice.

What should I know about feeding infants and young children before reading?

Feeding a baby is a decision to make with your paediatrician or a registered dietitian. General guidance says that early nutrition matters: the WHO healthy diet fact sheet says optimal nutrition in the first two years fosters healthy growth and development and that breastfeeding supports it.

The nutrient most often raised for plant-based families is vitamin B12. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements fact sheet on vitamin B12 warns that babies of strict vegetarian or vegan mothers might not get enough, which is a reason to discuss supplements and monitoring with a health professional.

Iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D and enough energy also deserve attention, and choking hazards such as whole nuts need care. A doctor can advise on growth checks, supplements and when to introduce solid foods. Introduce one new food at a time so that any reaction is easy to spot. Keep meals relaxed and let the child set the pace.

Mashed and soft finger foods are common early foods, but timing and textures vary, so follow your health professional’s guidance. Never leave a young child alone while eating, and cut round foods such as grapes lengthwise.

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Book: New Vegetarian Baby by Sharon Yntema
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