1996 Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites Vintage Vegetarian Cookbook

DESCRIPTION

An original 1996 edition of Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals by the Moosewood Collective, published by Clarkson Potter.

Created by the cooks behind Ithaca, New York's celebrated Moosewood Restaurant, this substantial cookbook captures a particularly recognizable moment in 1990s American food culture — when low-fat cooking, vegetarian food and an expanding appetite for Mediterranean, Asian and globally inspired flavors were moving decisively into the mainstream.

Rather than approaching low-fat cooking as deprivation, the Moosewood Collective built the book around the generous, vegetable-forward food for which the restaurant had become known: soups, salads, grains, vegetables, pasta, beans, Mediterranean and Asian-inspired dishes, fish and even desserts.

Nearly three decades later, it is as interesting as a piece of American culinary history as it is a working cookbook — particularly for collectors of vegetarian, natural-food and restaurant cookbooks.

The wonderfully colorful folk-art cover is pure Moosewood: abundant, cheerful and immediately at home on a well-used kitchen shelf.

WORTH NOTING

Published by Clarkson Potter in 1996.

The 1996 trade paperback edition is ISBN 0-517-88494-1 / 978-0-517-88494-2. Bibliographic records confirm the 1996 publication and trade-paperback format.

The collection contains hundreds of recipes spanning breakfasts, soups, salads, vegetables, grains, pasta, Mediterranean and Asian-inspired dishes, fish and desserts, with nutritional information accompanying the recipes.

MEASUREMENTS

Approximately 9" high × 7.5" wide × 1.1" deep.

Approximately 465–480 pages depending on bibliographic pagination convention.

CONDITION

Pre-owned vintage paperback condition with age-appropriate evidence of previous use and shelf storage.

Please review photographs closely for the condition of the illustrated covers, spine, corners, page block, binding and interior pages.

FROM THE HOUSE

Cookbooks have a marvelous habit of preserving more than recipes.

This one captures the 1990s rather perfectly: the great low-fat experiment meeting the earthy, abundant cooking of one of America's best-known vegetarian kitchens. What survives is a wonderfully substantial Moosewood cookbook filled with the sort of food people actually wanted to cook rather than merely admire.

And that exuberant folk-art cover deserves a kitchen shelf of its own.

~ Genevieve