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Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian and a Meat Lover Debate the Plate

✍️ Pleskac, Maggie
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🏛 Bison Books 📅 2007 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780803260436
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📝 Description: Dueling Chefs: A Vegetarian and a Meat Lover Debate the Plate

One eats meat. The other doesn't. Both are professional chefs. And both have recipes that make a deliciously persuasive case for each chef's point of view. In a delightful culinary turn on "he said, she said," dueling chefs Maggie Pleskac and Sean Carmichael engage in a delectable debate over the merits of the cuisines of vegetarians and carnivores in the form of recipe one-upmanship in which only the reader is sure to win. Between entertaining banter and edifying discussion of exciting ingredients, Pleskac and Carmichael challenge each other--and cooks everywhere--with eighty recipes as creative (and mouthwatering) as Beef Brisket with Blueberry BBQ Sauce and Jackfruit Pineapple BBQ on a Bun. Lobster and falafel, curried eggs and smoked halibut, tempeh and quinoa, stuffed capon breast and chickpeas in coconut sauce, goulash and salmon cakes and Bolshevik Beet and Blue Gratin: whatever diet suits your fancy, the dueling chefs have dishes to make your days and nights as delightful as your taste buds can bear.

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This title targets home cooks open to experimenting beyond their usual dietary habits. However, it does not suit purists who prefer rigidly segregated vegetarian or meat-only cookbooks without narrative interludes. Readers seeking dense nutritional science or rigorous historical analysis will likely find the focus on 'banter' and 'debate' too lighthearted for their tastes. The book’s strength lies in its accessibility and persuasive approach to cross-dietary cooking, but it may disappoint those looking for deep cultural documentation rather than a playful culinary exchange between two professional chefs.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

This title targets home cooks open to experimenting beyond their usual dietary habits. However, it does not suit purists who prefer rigidly segregated vegetarian or meat-only cookbooks without narrative interludes. Readers seeking dense nutritional science or rigorous historical analysis will likely find the focus on 'banter' and 'debate' too lighthearted for their tastes. The book’s strength lies in its accessibility and persuasive approach to cross-dietary cooking, but it may disappoint those looking for deep cultural documentation rather than a playful culinary exchange between two professional chefs.

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