| VEGETARIAN
COOKING
Many of you have asked for diets
tailored specifically to IgAN patients. There aren't any,
but it doesn't matter. Lots of good vegetarian cookbooks
out there fill the bill very nicely, and once you
understand the principles of vegetarian cooking, almost
any main dish can be transformed into a meatless -- but
delicious -- variant.
Cooking is a very personal matter. Who
is going to use a cookbook unless the recipes work and
suit the family's tastes? We suggest you borrow books from
your library, or browse the bookstores to find cookbooks
that appeal to you. Try, however, to avoid cookbooks that
depend heavily on using milk or cheese. The following are
some of the best, according to Vegetarian Times:
Best Cookbooks for Beginners:
l The New Laurel's Kitchen by
Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal
(Ten Speed Press, 1986).
l Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie
Katzen (Ten Speed Press, 1992).
l Horn of the Moon Cookbook by
Ginny Callan (Harper & Row, 1987).
l Ten Talents by Rosalie Hurd
(Dr. & Mrs. Frank Hurd, 1985).
l The Vegetarian Feast by Martha
Rose Shulman (Harper & Row, 1979).
Best Ethnic Cookbooks:
l Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of
Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Yamuna Devi (Bala, 1987).
l World-of-the-East Vegetarian
Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981).
l Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
by the Moosewood Collective (Simon & Schuster, 1990).
l Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain
Cooking by Julie Sahni (William Morrow, 1985).
l The Fragrant Vegetable: Simple
Vegetarian Delicacies from the Chinese by Martin
Stidham (Tarcher/St. Martin's Press, 1986).
Best Vegan [using
no animal products at all] Cookbooks:
l The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook
(Book Publishing Co., 1978).
l The Now and Zen Epicure by
Miyoko Nishimoto (Book Publishing Co., 1991).
l Friendly Foods by Ron Pickarski
(Ten Speed Press, 1991).
l Recipes from An Ecological Kitchen
by Lorna Sass (William Morrow, 1992).
l Simply Vegan by Debra Wasserman
(The Vegetarian Resource Group, 1991).
Best Overall Cookbooks:
l The New Laurel's Kitchen by
Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal
(Ten Speed Press, 1986).
l The Savory Way by Deborah
Madison (Bantam, 1990).
l American Wholefoods Cuisine by
Nikki and David Goldbeck (Plume/NAL and Ceres Press,
1983).
l Vegetarian Pleasures by Jeanne
Lemlin (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).
I would also add:
l The Vegetarian Epicure, Books
One or Two, by Anna Thomas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972 and
1989).
l Vegetable Heaven, Mollie Katzen
(Hyperion, 1997)
l Modern Thai Cuisine by Tommy
Tang (Doubleday, 1991). (Not strictly vegetarian, but
adaptable.)
[Adapted from Network News, No. 6
(April 1996)]
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