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No, there is no chicken stock in this soup. What you'll find here is page after glorious page of the loveliest, most delicious soups and stews - each and every one entirely vegetarian. Brimming with international flavors, Paulette Mitchell's easy-to-follow recipes are paired with unique accompaniments, garnishes, and toppings that add tremendous visual appeal. Witness hearty Pumpkin Stew baked and served in a pumpkin shell; classic onion soup updated with crunchy goat cheese toasts; and Spicy Sweet PotatoAncho Bisque swirled with bright Roasted Red Pepper Cream. From Mediterranean Saffron Stew to Greek Spinach and Orzo Soup, these colorful dishes are simple enough for every day, yet sophisticated enough for elegant dinner parties. Instructions for making tasty vegetable stock from scratch, a selection of delicious vegan soups, and a helpful "tips" section make this gorgeous cookbook an important addition to any kitchen where good food and good health are on the menu.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books; First Edition (January 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811835286
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811835282
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.13 x 0.75 x 8.88 inches
Reviewer: B. Marold
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Delightful Book of Soup. Highly Recommended
Review: It is much easier to identify very good and very bad cookbooks than it is to identify the merely good or average cookbooks. I saw the beauty of this book with the first recipe I prepared from it. I have read two other books on soup by very famous cookbook authors Barbara Kafka and James Peterson and I would recommend this little book over both of their works. Both of these other works are good, worthy of five stars, but this volume by Paulette Mitchell is better for the price.The fact that it is limited to only vegetarian and vegan recipes detracts not one wit from its value to the general cook. If this means anything at all, it means that the recipes will be less expensive and faster to prepare than recipes including meat. It especially means that you can make an appropriate homemade vegetable stock for these recipes very cheaply and easily, with no chicken sanitary problems to deal with.The main body of the book with the chapters of soup recipes covers:Creamy Soups featuring curried carrot, potatoes, squash, chestnuts, bell peppers, fresh peas, and peanutsChunky Soups featuring black beans, red lentils, chickpeas, asparagus, miso, minestrones and ribollita.Chilled Soups featuring Vichyssoise, borscht, lettuce soup, avocado soup, and gazpachoDessert Soups featuring berry-wine, strawberry-rhubarb, gingered pear, and brandied pumpkin.The chapter on chunky soups comprises about half the recipes. It should be clear from this list that most of the major soupy players are present. The only major type of soup one may miss is seafood chowders. For that, you can go to Jasper White's excellent book, '50 Chowders'.Many recipes are vegetarian in that they include some dairy product; however, the author gives many tips on making the daried soups suitable to a vegan sensibility. The primary technique is to substitute soymilk for cow's milk and toasted breadcrumbs for grated cheese.Before the main chapters of recipes, there is a short chapter on preparing vegetable stock. The book ends with an excellent chapter of recipes for `garnishes and accompaniments' which gives recipes for pestos, croutons, and various toasted nibbles. Many recipes also include a garnish which may easily be treated as a recipe in itself and a garnish from one soup can be grafted onto the serving of some other soup.Aside from the excellent selection of recipes for soups and supporting cast, the recipes are written in a very appealing format. Rather than undistinguished text or simple numbered steps, the steps are broken down into major activities, with numerous checkpoints to indicate where in the preparation it would be best to freeze or how to do parts of the preparation in advance. Soup and garnish steps and ingredient lists are always separate to easily mix and match soup with garnish.The book is loaded with tips relevant to the particular recipe, but which are also relevant to general cooking techniques. To this end, the author has provided a separate list of alphabetized names of tips, so that if you wish to use crème fraiche in a recipe but you have forgotten the recipe, simply look it up in the tips list. Surely, the index would do as well, except that it would not be as easy to browse the tip titles and let serendipity take its course.To top it all off, this is a very attractively composed book. The pictures are not abundant. Only about one in ten recipes has an accompanying photograph, but all pics are done in a way which compliments the overall design of the book. The plain black typesetting is possibly not as elegant as the kind of treatment it may have gotten from Knopf, but it is a very nicely designed book. The literary quotes headlined by a famous quote on soup by Lewis Carroll sprinkled here and there simply add to the pleasant experience.One advantage to meatless recipes is that they will take less time to prepare; however, I do wish to soft pedal the author's suggestion that the recipes are fast and easy. If you make both soup and garnish, you may be dealing with more than one separate steam, saute, or blanche step. Cream soups will require breaking out the food processor, blender, or stick blender. Chunky soups will require a fair amount of knife work. But, don't hold this against this or any other book. Just don't buy it with the notion that you are buying a fast recipe book.Very highly recommended especially for the price. Not fast, but easy for novices.

Reviewer: Madeleine
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Beautiful Book of Keeper Recipes
Review: It is tough to find a vegetarian cookbook that doesn't have impossibly exotic ingredients. Mitchell uses a variety of common vegetables, and she explains how to store and use them. The ingredients were very familiar to me, but I would never have considered combining them in such a way or have thought to prepare them that way. Who knew you could do so much with celery leaves!Ten of the twelve recipes that I've tried have become staples for our diet. My husband and I have already lost 13 pounds each. The hearty and healthful recipes are perfect with a slice of toasted whole grain bread or half of a sandwich. On the weekends, I make two pots of soup and we freeze individual portions for the coming weeks. We each get to choose our favorites. My husband even makes deals with me to get his favorites (French Vegetable, a Ramen soup, carrot cashew, and the cover recipe - Wild Rice and Cranberry). Yum!I also feel pretty confident in making my own vegetable stock now; there's no need to look at the recipe. If you're looking for a collection of tasty, nutritious, and eye-pleasing recipes, then you've come to the right place. Though I wouldn't say these recipes are quick and simple, they are very doable and worth the moderate effort. Whether you want to entertain or just feed your family, you won't be disappointed.

Reviewer: Veronique Cote
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I wish there was images
Review: I think a good cookbook should have an image for every recipe.This cookbook has beautiful images, but I wish they would show me an image of the cooked soup instead of images of the ingredients. I know what a raspberry looks like, but I have no idea about raspberry soup.Else than that I think that the yummy titled of the recipe make up a little bit for the lack of images, they all sound good. They are simple yet not obvious soups. They have refined ingredients, but not obscure, you can find everything at the grocery store.My only other critique would be that the organization of the explanation is trying to simplify the flowing of the making process, but I think it is just confusing. I would like a 1-2-3 kind of book, but this one is more like a flowing text wich makes it hard to follow once you are in the kitchen with your stuff cooking fast.Over all it seems to be a good book, full of nice little recipies. I just wish there was more images...

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delicious soups!!
Review: I really love this book. I like to have a soup going just about everyday and this book has so many different kinds. It's my go-to book for soup. The recipes may seem like they call for a lot of ingredients, but don't be overwhelmed by that. Just find the few soups that you want to make over and over again and stock up on those spices and herbs. I'm fortunate to have a store nearby that sells in bulk, so I can buy small or large quantities versus having to buy a whole bottle. And sometimes I don't use a spice in the ingredients. For tonight's soup, I did not spend $9.00 on the little bottle of saffron threads. I'm sure it will slightly change the flavor of my soup but so what? I'm picky about what I'm willing to spend money on. I have found all of the instructions correct and easy to follow. I would highly recommend this book, especially if you're like me and pretty much need a recipe for anything.

Reviewer: Carrie
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More like invisible bowl of soup.
Review: Beautiful bowl of soup? I prefer cookbooks with lots of pictures of the recipes. Based on the reviews I read and the title I assumed that there would be lots of pictures of the actual soups. There were some and they looked good, but so many pictures were wasted on just pictures of individual ingredients. I don't need a page with a photo of a bunch of spoons, tomatoes, onions, or other ingredients. I'd estimate that half the pictures in the book were of ingredients. I'd go on to say that probably less than 1/5 of the soups are pictured. I'd be a little less critical if it had a different title.

Reviewer: Southfields resident
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Lovely book and a real must have in the kitchenSpeedy dispatch - many thanksReally happy with this purchase: highly recommended!

Reviewer: HeadCook
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Time and again I reach for this book when I want to make soup - especially food in a bowl chunky soups. I'm sure the minestrone from here was one of the routes to my partner's heart as he loved this as an early meal served with home made bread. Other favourites are the moroccan chick pea soup, the asian noodle, the red lentil and bean, the Egyptian split pea ... I could go on.It's not all about stew style soups, there are more simple pea, pepper or vegetable soups too. Classic chilled soups and even seven dessert soups (not half the book as claimed by another reviewer).There's useful guidance as to how to make recipes vegan, tips that are helpful such as which potatoes thicken best and how to balance fresh and dried herbs. Plus the author includes advice on what can be prepared in advance.Every recipe comes with its own garnish or topping but these can be left out if you want to save time. And at the back of the book there are recipes for more garnishes and accompaniments.It is an American book you may need to look up a few ingredients eg ciltrano (coriander) and you might want to equip yourself with a set of measuring cups, though with soup can the exact quantities matter that much?I think I'll have soup for lunch today ... just a question of which one.

Reviewer: Doug Herridge
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: We were on a cruise over Christmas and Paulette gave lessons and spoke about her cooking, very good as both my wife and I like good soups.

Reviewer: 羽衣素馨
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 　この本で良かったのは、①本のデザインが洒落ている②軽量カップ等の換算表が載っているという二点、悪かったのは、①一つのレシピにつき、揃えなければならない食材の種類が多い（私は一人暮らしなので、そんなに沢山の食材は買えません。買っても腐らせるだけだし。それと、それだけ買い揃えるのが面倒くさい、ということもありますが）②そもそも手に入りにくい食材が多く使われている（殊に私の住んでいるところは田舎なので）。なので、この本に載っているレシピで作ろうと思うものは今のところありません（泣）。　あと、the best vegitarian recipesとありますが、Veganの人には使えないレシピも含まれています。レシピ総数６４のうち、Vegan用のレシピは１９、材料の一部分を変えてVegan用のスープにすることができると指示のあるレシピが２３、です。一応その辺も言い添えておきます。　写真は確かに全レシピ分は載ってませんが、問題はないと思います（作り方を読めば十分わかると思います）。とにかく、材料が手に入らない、というのが難点ですね・・・。

Reviewer: Claudia Morgado
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I very much like the soup recipes. They require simple ingredients and are very tasty.