By Mollie Katzen
223 Pages
Quality Paperback
Hyperion Books
ISBN 0-7868-8409-6
$19.95
Review by Cheri Sicard
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Still Life with Menu Cookbook is so much more than a wonderful collection of more than 200 delicious and creative vegetarian dishes. Author Mollie Katzen (The Moosewood Cookbook, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest) has also divided her recipes into thirty five complete vegetarian menus.

Mollie Katzen is one of the most influential people in cooking. In fact, Health Magazine named her as one of the "Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat."

Anyone with an even passing interest in vegetarian cooking has at least heard of, if they don't actually own, Mollie's Moosewood Cookbook, which is on the list of top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time (that's ALL cookbooks, not just vegetarian ones). But from her early beginnings, through the publishing of Moosewood's follow-up The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and Still Life with Menu Cookbook, it is interesting to note how this beloved author has evolved.

Vegetable Heaven reflects Katzen's current lighter style. There's less emphasis on cheese and dairy products and more on fresh vegetables and fruits. There's also a healthy array of ethnic foods and the range spans the globe: Vietnamese Salad Rolls, Tunisian Tomato Soup, Persian Layered Pilafs, Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Stew, French Picnic Tart or Mexican Chocolate Cake (to name but a few).

Like all of Mollie's books, this one is beautifully produced and scattered throughout its pages are the author's original pastel drawings which evoke the joy and comfort of food and cooking. Mollie's personal note and recipe hints are also readily available to help cooks create perfect meals in the least amount of time fuss.

It is said that classics never go out of style. The information and delicious, wholesome recipes contained Vegetable Heaven are sure to inspire a new generation of cooks and their children to explore a more healthful, natural way of cooking just as The Moosewood Cookbook inspired their mothers.

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