Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals

This is a really useable book with tons of delicious low-fat (not an oxymoron here!) vegetarian recipes, suggestions for alternatives, and no glossy photos to make me feel bad when I drip stuff onto it. The font makes it easy to read while its lying on the counter (another plus for utility), and the simple colors make it aesthetically pleasing. This is an everyday cookbook which generally uses everyday and accessible ingredients - none of this going to the ends of the earth for an ingredient that sounds like Dr. Seuss made it up and only grows on the top of the mountain Ishkabibble. Can't recommend this cook book enough, and have already given it to all my parents and siblings. Watch out friends and family, you know what's in your show more near-future! show less

The recipes in this book include low-fat versions of popular standards (like macaroni and cheese), and new inventions to achieve great taste with lower fat. Their goal, as stated in the introduction, was to create food that doesn’t come off as merely “healthful diet food” but rather food that “is exciting, ethnically diverse, and satisfyingly delicious.”

In my opinion, they succeed admirably. The recipes I have tried are not only good-tasting, but not that difficult to make. In particular I recommend the Tuscan Sandwich, Quinoa Pine Nut Pilaf, Lucious Basil and Feta Pizza, and Chocolate Cocoa Cake.

Each recipe is accompanied by nutritional information and menu suggestions.

I am glad I borrowed this from the library. I did NOT like this cookbook at all. The recipes didn't seem appealing, there were no pictures (though pictures are not a requirement for my cookbooks), and I felt like the book played heavily on the renown of the restaurant. Until I picked up the cookbook, I'd never heard of the restaurant.

A wonderful fabulous cookbook. Highly recommended for vegetarians. I've tried quite a number of the recipes here and they are very good. When I cook for non-vegetarians (who enjoy eating something besides pizza or burgers) I reach for this book.

Chapters are pasta, soups, breakfasts, nutrition facts & cooking tips with glossary (pg 397), fish=yes, beef=no. There are good suggestions for recipe combos. I like the nutrition analysis.