Fresh At Home Cookbook: Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone

by Ruth Tal Brown, Jennifer Houston

An exciting new feast of vegetarian recipes from the Juice for Life authors Drawing inspiration from the global kitchen, founder Ruth Tal Brown has turned her funky Toronto-based restaurant chain Fresh by Juice for Life into a chow-down destination for health- conscious celebrities including Sting, Alanis Morrisette, Reese Witherspoon, Lenny Kravitz and numerous other notables. In Fresh at Home, Tal Brown, along with chef Jennifer Houston-both of whom consistently challenge the lingering stereotype that vegetarian (and vegan) food is tasteless-dish up innovative vegetarian fare in the form of rice bowls and noodles, sandwiches and wraps, soups and salads, dressings and sauces, stews and marinades as well as desserts, energy elixirs and pro athletic shakes. Like its bestselling predecessor, Juice for Life/Modern Food Luscious Juice, this deliciously healthy book will appeal to people of all tastes, whether vegetarian, vegan, or not.
 

Genres: Cookbooks, Food

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2004

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

From a popular Toronto vegetarian restaurant and juice bar chain, this book has sat on my shelves unused for far too long. Lots of salads, sandwiches and wraps, noodle bowels, baked goods and juice and smoothie blend recipes.

I made the lovely vegan Strawberry Lavender Muffins today--excellent. Here's the link to the post and pictures: http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20... I have several other recipes tagged to make.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent improvement on the original Fresh cookbook. The recipies have been selected from a collection of the most popular dishes, the layout is a bit cleaner and the book just holds together better (did I misuse the original?). If you can get your hands on this, it's worth cooking these recipies, regardless if you are from Toronto or not.

[Autumn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delicious, simple and ingenious vegan recipes. Fresh is restaurant in Toronto which specializes in glam and appealing juicing, raw foods and rice/noodle bowls. If you think you might ever drink a hot ginger lemonade with cayenne to soothe a cough, you will like this book.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seems like a very good, mostly Vegan cookbook, with recipes based on a popular restaurant, I gather. Lots of Asian-style recipes; got it from the library, want to return to it and try more out.

[Bear · Rating 3 out of 5]

Delicious recipes.

[Christine Leonard · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my most dog-earred, food splattered cook book. I especially love the soups and rice bowls. The recipes are perfect as they are, but also an ideal platform for improvising.

[Gabriella]

The title feels like a bit of a misnomer to me, as this seemed to be more a vegan cookbook than a vegetarian cookbook - I don't think I saw any recipes that called for eggs, milk, or honey. Also, I live in an area where there are health food stores and Asian markets and I've never seen hijiki or arame near me, though there are a handful of recipes in this book that call for those ingredients.