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Vegetarian Turkish Cooking: Over 100 of Turkey's Classic Recipes for the Vegetarian Cook
by Carol Robertson (Photographer: David Robertson)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Frog Books (2001-03-30)
ISBN: 1583940383
EAN: 9781583940389
Dewey Decimal #: 641.563609561
Binding/Media: Paperback - 200 pages
Release Date: 2001-02-16
SKU: 02444
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Minor shelf wear on cover. Pages crisp.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Carol Robertson begins her latest book with tales of her village and seaside encounters in Turkey, transporting the reader into the spirit and tradition of the food about to be prepared. Recipes that follow include everything from Spinach with Yogurt Sauce and Cold Zucchini Salad to Minted Pea Pilav and Eggplant Puree. Vegan dishes are featured as well.
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Customer Reviews
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Sadly misleading
Rating  (1)
Date: 2010-01-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I truly wanted to like this book. I like travelogues to tell the reader about the culture while delving into the recipes.
Unfortunately, I found the recipes were actually the same meat based dishes from her other book "Turkish Cooking" with soy subsitutes where the meat would be. Broth becomes non-meat flavored bouillon. I'm upset to have found only a handful of actual vegetable based recipes. Alas, vegans will not find anything of use in this book.
I then flipped through the sister book, "Turkish Cooking," to find the same layout and identical recipes listing the originally intended meat or fish. Dear seeker, I'm very disappointed to say that you are better off purchasing the other book for the real deal and seeking another title to truly find Turkish vegetarian recipes.
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Good cookbook but for a real vegeterian
Rating  (3)
Date: 2009-03-08
This cook book includes many good recipes, however in most recipes meat/chicken/fish originally required and the suggested replacement is flawared soy based meat substance such as tofu, etc. That is OK if you are not a vegetarian but trying to cut meat, but if you really are a vegetarian, smell of those items are not desired. For this matter the recipes are not really vegetarian ones, at least not for me. I still praise the book as successful one because it includes many exceptionally good options. I wished it had more stew recipes though.
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excellent cookbook
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-09-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This cookbook is easy to understand and does not require a lot of cooking skill. The recipies are easy and delicious, and a lot of them use the same basic ingredients so you can mix and match with appetizers and dinners. I am very happy with my purchase.
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Good cook book
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-11-28
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
We just got back from a wonderful trip to Istanbul and Greece and I must say upon returning I was looking for some more of those wonderful meze and the Turkish Delights (yum). So I took a chance on this cookbook since there aren't many (any others) out there that are vegetarian never mind vegan! I'm really enjoying this cookbook - the first 76 pages (out of 249 so that's not a big deal) are indeed history/travelogue but its kind of fun to flip through and the pictures were of some of the same places we visited so that was neat. Just before the recipes there's a section on subsitites and here the author gives you the info you need to find certain ingedients that might not be in the local supermarket - e.g. there's discussion of egg substitites and where to find them, non-dairy butter substitites and where to find them, meat/fish substitites and where to find them etc. In the recipes there are some ingredients like non-meat chicken broth that is called for. Why not just go with a vegetable broth? I did. Anyway, the recipes have all been great so far. I've tried mostly mezes so far - the fried carrots, the fried eggplant with two sauces, stuffed grapeleaves (mine never turn out looking like they should - need more practice...). There are wonderful soups in here - the only one I've made so far was the hot and spicy soup, but others like the lentil look good too. I definitely recommend this cookbook. I had a *really* hard time finding vegetarian dishes in restarants in Istanbul which is why I enjoyed a lot of mezes, so I can see why there are recipes in here (like Sultan's delight) that use meat substitutes. I think this is quite authentic and the author did a terrific job at trying to bring the Turkish flavors to the vegetarian table!
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Disappointed
Rating (1)
Date: 2001-06-08
38 out of 42 customers found this reveiw helpful
I find this book disappointing. Firstly, one fourth of the book is taken up by the author's travel accounts. It's a different story when an author gives some background to each recipe. But it is not the case here and I find the result of those two books rolled into one very awkward. Second, and more annoyingly, many recipes rely on meat substitutes. I have always found it sad and the sign of a certain lack of imagination when vegetarian cooking tries to mimick meat-based dishes. It is particularly regrettable in a book on Turkish cooking which has a rich tradition of NATURALLY vegetarian dishes. Which is why I ordered the book in the first place !
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