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(More customer reviews)I first encountered Laurel, Carol et al. in 1985, after reading and being impressed by Diet For A Small Planet but feeling constrained by the narrowness of protein complementarity as it was then understood. I had beentold by my doctor to lose the fifty pounds I had gained with my firstpregnancy or she wouldn't be around to help me with a second one. Avegetarian friend suggested I try changing the way our family ate. Since Idid then and still do love to cook, I was ready and willing to makewhatever changes might be necessary.Laurel's Kitchen was a light in thedarkness for me.The recipes were fun to make and best of all, they tastedgreat.My formerly meat and potatoes or nothing Irishman husband took toour new way of eating with real enjoyment. I took great heart from thephilosophical musings that began the book and were interspersed with therecipes.When the second edition came out, in 1986, I was fifty poundslighter and beginning a pregnancy as a well-nourished lacto-ovo vegetarian.My 11 pound son's birth left me two pounds lighter than I had been at hisconception.I have gone through 3 copies of the 1986 edition, and havememorized (with our own personal modifications) all our favorite recipes,which have become family classics. I have never regained the weight I lostfourteen years ago and am in my twenty-fifth year of teaching high schoolhistory.My husband and our two teen-agers are healthy, slim andenergetic. My daughter, at 16, takes a lot of static from well-meaning"friends" about her vegetarian diet, but she remains committedbut never censorious of others' eating habits. We are happy with ourchoice and eternally grateful for the wit, wisdom and just plain goodeating to be found in Laurel's Kitchen. As Carol states,"Laurel didn'tbelieve just in cooking vegetarian...it had to taste good."
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The New Laurel's Kitchen includes plenty of simple, beat-the-clock recipes - who doesn't need them? But it refuses to blur the distinction between natural foods and fast foods. If you need forty-five minutes to bake a potato or cook brown rice, fine. That's good, solid wind-down time, precious in today's hurried world: time to cut up green beans, or prepare a cauliflower curry; time for the children to dry the lettuce and help make an Appley Bread Pudding. Laurel's kitchen has its own pace - a human pace, that lets other things happen besides just dinner.Good health is the first concern here, and foods that support it are rendered irresistible: dishes like Mushrooms Petaluma, Poppyseed Noodles, Lazy Pirogi, and Sebastapol Pizza. These are well-tested and innately manageable recipes, homespun, but with a generous splash of the sophistication that has swept the food world in recent years.
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