Vegetarian Express or Painters Kitchen

Vegetarian Express

Author: Rose Elliot

Here are delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes for optimum vitality, based on high-energy ingredients that won’t pile on the weight. With the emphasis on fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains, Rose Elliot has created recipes for vitamin-packed meals throughout the day. Among the dishes are Quick Porridge with Raisins and Almonds; Fettuccine with Walnuts, Garlic, and Butter; Ruby Grapefruit, Green Olive, and Fennel Salad; and Sticky Ginger Cake. Many of the recipes are dairy- and wheat-free to counter allergies and lift energy levels, and all have been calorie and fat counted for the diet-conscious cook. It is a lively, inspiring book that shows how pleasurable and revitalizing vegetarian food can be.

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Painter's Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe

Author: Margaret Wood

Georgia O'Keeffe, well known for her striking paintings of the Southwest, carried her creativity into the kitchen, where she took great pride in her healthy culinary style. The meals served in her household focused on homegrown and natural foods. They were always tasty, nutritious, modest, and beautifully prepared.

A Painter's Kitchen is Margaret Wood's recollection of seventy recipes from Georgia O'Keeffe's kitchen. As Miss O'Keeffe's companion for five years, Wood's responsibilities included, among other things, preparing many of the meals. O'Keeffe directed Miss Wood in the preparation of simple, delicious food using many fresh ingredients and insisted that Wood pay scrupulous attention to every step of food production and preparation. Besides containing recipes from Miss O'Keeffe's kitchen, the book describes in charming detail Miss O'Keeffe's outlook on food, philosophy, life, art, and the world, while maintaining respect for the artist's well-known desire for privacy.

Margaret Wood left Miss O'Keeffe's employ in 1982. She was a production weaver for Kozikowski Tapestry Weavers and since 1988 has been a speech/language pathologist.

"Lavishly sprinkled with black-and-white photographs of the artist as well as full-color food photos, "A Painter's Kitchen" is a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and stomach."-Mail Order Gourmet

"More than just a cookbook, this text describes O'Keeffe's outlook on life and art in 128 pages."-Southwest Art

"Here is a way of cooking and eating serene in accumulated wisdom (Miss O'Keeffe was in her nineties at the time the author knew her) and rich in undiminished sensualdelight."-Cook Book

Sample Recipe:
During the 1960s and 1970s, many prominent magazines featured interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe, along with photographs of both her houses. During supper one evening she recalled the occasion when a female staff member from one of the magazines had come to the Abiquiu house and was straightening everything up so meticulously that it no longer looked like the painter's house. At one point, when the woman was making every curtain pleat perfect, Miss O'Keeffe could not resist saying to her,