Vegetarian food for blokes - Rated 
I own both the Café Paradiso books and cannot rate them highly enough. It's true that few of the recipes are quick - they are taken from the restaurant and do involve plenty of prep - but the end results are incredible.
It struck me recently that whenever I want to cook a vegetarian meal, recipes from either book always go down well with my husband. In contrast, most other vegetarian cook books are compiled by women and the recipes leave the average man unsatisfied!
I love this book for being able to focus on a vegetable that's in season. I love both of the books for providing an entire well-balanced meal in each recipe.
Lovely Food - Rated 
The secret, I think, of good vegetarian food is to produce a dish where there is no place for meat and, if it was there, it would be out of place.
Denis Cotter does just this. In both this and his previous book he produces superb, complete dishes that really show what can be done with vegetables. Of the two books, I prefer his previous one (Cafe Paradiso Cookbook) but the difference between the two is pretty marginal. The recipes are imaginative, colourful and above all, tasty. Some of them are a bit fiddly, but the effort is rewarded when you tuck into the finished dish.
I've been lucky enough to eat at his restaurant, and it is well worth a visit. And while you're there, stock up on the various local ingredients to use in the recipes when you get home.
Outstanding - Rated
I have never written a review before but this book has forced me to share my views with you all. Every recipe that I have cooked from the book has been sensational. I have used many cookbook and prepared many meals but this is the first time I have felt as though I was preparing a restaurant class meal. The narration in the book complements the recipes - it gives an insight into Denis and what he is trying to achieve.
Regardless of being a vegetarian or not if you are a lover of food BUY this book.
Vegetarian cuisine comes of age - Rated
This is a splendid book of grown up veggie recipes - barely a bean in sight. The barbecue recipes include a lot of squash, a hitherto underrated vegetable for main courses, and many other delicious alternatives to the bean burger. The recipes are complex and adventurous but not hard to follow, and the results are always worth the effort - delicious and flavoursome in a way many of us veggies have forgotten. Would be worth a Ryan air special to sample the dishes in situ!
A great follow up from Cafe Paradiso - Rated
For those who have now tried all the recipes from Denis Cotter's first book (tried being the operative word!), here is a worthy successor - get it, try out the superb recipes, but always try to pop in and see how they really *should* be done if you are ever in Cork city! Yum yum!
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