Publisher Description

Secrets of Delicious Vegan Cuisine from the Beloved NY EateryFor over 40 years the landmark Angelica Kitchen served mouthwatering, plant-based dishes to tens of thousands of customers in New York City. While the restaurant has since closed, more than 100 of its most popular recipes live on in this inspirational cookbook. From essential rice and beans to exotic Asian root-vegetable stew, this volume showcases the range of this famous eatery's artful technique, with instruction perfect for the home cook. The Angelica Home Kitchen explores the economic, social, and ecological impact that our food choices have outside the kitchen. This iconic work delves into philosophies and principles of consumption while offering delicious, well-balanced, healthy dishes made from-the-heart and at an affordable cost.Author Leslie McEachern, the owner of Angelica Kitchen, shares her locally-sourced, farm-grown path to nourish the body and spirit. In balance, we rekindle our connection between ourselves, the earth, and our community. This must-have cookbook is beloved by vegetarians and omnivores alike for its passion, creativity, and above all -- flavor!This book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback (ISBN 1635618622).

Author Biography

Leslie McEachern owned, guided and operated Angelica Kitchen for close to 4 decades from 1981 until its closing in 2017. Leslie's innovative and groundbreaking leadership changed New York City's culinary landscape. She brought the vitality of local organic food from the farm to the table, putting the community in direct touch with the people who grew their food. Her dedication to the community of eaters, purveyors and neighbors lives on. Leslie currently resides in the Garden State.

Review

"I am grateful to have been part of the community of diners, growers, purveyors and staff that made up Angelica Kitchen. As a chef at Angelica, one of the highlights for me was being able to cook with the freshest local and organic produce available and allowing nature and the seasons to guide what was on the menu. A one of a kind restaurant, Angelica Kitchen was built on the belief that the health of the environment, the local economy and the individual diners were all intrinsically linked and critical to maintaining a sustainable food system."AMY CHAPLINFormer Executive Chef of Angelica KitchenJames Beard Award-winning author of At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well "Angelica Kitchen was decades ahead of its time in sourcing organic ingredients, promoting a plant-based diet, and working closely with local farmers-and the food was delicious. This book is its living legacy and it is wonderful to have it."Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University, and author of What to Eat"As a farmer I am privileged to learn daily from the land, but I have learned equally about the myriad dimensions and dynamics of food from innovators like Leslie McEachern of Angelica Kitchen. Decades ago (lucky for us) Leslie made a conscious, ethical choice to source and serve organic plant-based meals: a choice that has benefited our local soils, the health of our bodies, our palates, and the entire biota of our region. This book, as the meals served at Angelica's, is a generous gift, one I have treasured and consulted for many years, as I treasure Leslie's faith, support, and friendship with a widening community of farms and farmers and land."Scott Chaskey, Organic Farmer, author of Seedtime and This Common Ground"Unlike a lot of other serious vegetarian places, the food tastes like a reward . . . ." The New Yorker Magazine. October 4.1999

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