Romancing the Bean: Essentials for Creating Vegetarian Bean Dishes

by Joanne Saltzman, Joel Saltzman

In this companion book to Amazing Grains , Joanne Saltzman applies her unique approach to a wide variety of dried beans. Saltzman explores the fundamentals of dried-bean cooking, explains seasonings, soaking, different types of preparation, each bean's unique attributes and taste, and provides more than sixty kitchen-tested recipes that showcase them in a variety of dishes. Also included are recipes for tofu and tempeh, two processed forms of soybeans.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food

184 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 1993

Reviews

[Amy]

Good resource for Vegetarian beanie weanies.
Packing away now as we declutter the house, preparing to put it on the market.

[Sarah Schwab]

I picked this book up out of a freebox thinking I'd be learning something completely different. Though I did gain a lot of pleasure from learning the art of cooking beans.