Cardinal sin of cookbooks: No pictures.

The concepts are great, but what is a cookbook without pictures?

In THE EVERLASTING MEAL COOKBOOK: LEFTOVERS A TO Z, Tamra Adler offers a comprehensive resource in using up all manner of food scraps and leftovers. As someone who isn't creative enough naturally to know how to repurpose kitchen and pantry items as I tire of them in their original state or they are at the end of their life, this is a welcome source of inspiration. Through gentle and chatty guidance, readers will appreciate her instruction ("Taste for salt and eat, in astonishment").

I read this as an ebook, but I expect to add a hardcover to my collection, as I prefer cookbooks I can flip through and break in with food splatters and coffee stains, and this will be a welcome guide, as if I have a friend over my shoulder, teaching me how not to waste but to create new, delectable dishes.

(I received a digital ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.)

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
The book is more of an idea book than a strict cookbook. It gives ideas for leftover cooked food, but also the food scrap left from cooking.
My one big issue with the book is that it is very text dense, so some ideas get lost in the pages of text.

I loved Tamar's book The Everlasting Meal. It fundamentally changed the way I cook. So I was SO excited when I heard about this cookbook. While it does have some great recipes and ideas in it., I found it quite wordy. The format also didn't work well for me. It is entirely possible that this is because I didn't have a physical copy.

If you’re someone who has leftovers from time to time, you may want to consider picking up a copy of The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Recipes for Leftovers A-Z by Tamar Adler. This cookbook is organized into chapters on different leftovers, such as vegetables, fruits and nuts, breads, dairy and eggs, beans and rice, seafood, meat and tofu, dough and noodles, salads, sauces and dips, pickles, etc., drinks, snacks, and sweets. That seems to cover about everything that anyone could have leftover. Items contained in these chapters are listed, and there are recipes and ways to use up whatever you have.

Unfortunately, there are only illustrations, and no photographs. It is not a book to peruse and find fun recipes to prepare for a special meal or for a fun family dinner; rather it is one that cooks will refer to in order to find something to do with whatever happens to be available.
This is more of a reference book rather than a cookbook, and as such is full of good information that will be useful and save money on meals.

The recipes aren’t in traditional recipe format; they aren’t difficult to follow, but not as most of us are used to. It isn’t one of those cookbooks to curl up in a corner and read. It does have some good ideas to use up rather than throw out small or larger amounts of ingredients or dishes.

All told, this is a good reference to have on hand.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Tamar Adler is a goddess and, an amazing food writer. Adler provides endless options to help anyone cook up great meals with leftovers. I own Adler's Everlasting Meal and am grateful to have the cookbook as a companion. LOVE this book!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This cookbook is a great resource. I have read the companion book, An Everlasting Meal and it if you liked that book then you will love this cookbook.

This is a must-have in my cookbook library. Based on the bestselling and oh-so-readable An Everlasting Meal, this offers 1500+ doable recipes and ideas for leftovers and what I like to call orphan ingredients. The ingredient may be fresh and not technically a leftover, but it's all alone until it finds one of these practical recipes. I will be purchasing this book, so that I can bookmark and notate it properly. I recommend anyone who cooks or wants to cook with leftovers do the same.

[Thanks to Scribner and NetGalley for an opportunity to read an advanced reader copy and share my opinion of this book.]

Destined to join Salt Fat Acid Heat in the annals of necessary cookbooks, Chez Panisse alum Tamar Adler's newest cookbook offers ideas for using up leftovers of all kinds in a useful, helpful collection. Adler offers recipes for the odds and ends that collect in every house, from orange peels to cheese rinds to takeout leftovers, with verve and panache. Not quite zero-waste, but with grocery prices soaring this cookbook will be a lifesaver for the cook who is trying to stay within a budget and waste as little as possible. Not just made for those who have stock and potatoes in the corners of their fridge, Adler has ideas for leftover tteotboki, veggies of all types, and cooked meats you would expect to be destined for the trash. Pick it up now for hipster cred, so when it becomes the next craze you can say you knew about it before it was cool.

Wasting anything that is food or attached to food could be over - just use this cookbook.

The Everlasting Meal Cookbook could reduce your food waste to almost nothing. I had no idea that you could use shrimp shells to make something like shrimp stock or SHRIMP SHELL AND POTATO CHIP FURIKAKE. Who knew? I thought they were simply trash. This cookbook takes anything you would buy at the grocery store and uses all of it -vegetable stalks, tough outer leaves, etc.

If you cooked something and it is under cooked or over cooked - do not throw it away - check this cookbook and use it to make something else. This cookbook is divided up into groups like vegetable, seafood, meat, fruit & nuts, etc. Do you have something that is stale or over ripe - do not throw it away - it can be used. Empty bottles can be used before they are thrown away - ketchup bottle, BBQ sauce bottle, etc. Butter wrappers make great baking pan greasers. Just find the appropriate chapter and lookup the left order - everything in is alphabetical order by chapter.

Buy this book and be amazed.

Are you looking to lower your carbon footprint and save money as well as the planet by creating less food waste? The average American household throws out almost a third of the food it buys—that’s $3,000 annually right into the trash can. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook has a multitude of ideas to use up food scraps and leftovers to create exciting new meals.

I spend a lot of time googling recipes to use up my leftover food. However, this book has many ideas I had never seen before but want to try. Most of us have heard about saving vegetable peelings in the freezer to make broth later. However, how about making a salad by frying leftover rice with Cheetos and eggs as a topper? Or creating wafer cookies with oats and stale popcorn? There is an entire chapter devoted to making sauces with empty condiment jars! The book also includes hints about how to reheat items that are traditionally just tossed, like poached eggs and French toast, when their first usage is complete.

While labeled a cookbook, the book is organized more as an idea generator. There are no illustrations or nutritional information here. Few of the recipes have step-by-step instructions so a certain level of cooking skill is necessary to get the most out of its ideas. What is nice is that the recipes are organized by ingredient. So, for example, all the leftover rice recipes are together making it easy to find what you need.

Overall, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook is a great cost-effective way to feel better about yourself while also saving the planet. That’s a true win-win. 5 stars and a favorite.

Thanks to Scribner and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.

This is a great cookbook to use up every kind of a leftover. It's organized alphabetically and makes it easy to flip through so you can find a use for all types of unused food. It's a book for people who love to read cookbooks and a smart book to save money and even a book to curl up with. It's perfect for solo meals or for feeding the whole family. Food waste is a serious issue today. Nearly forty percent of the food we buy gets tossed out. Tamara offers more than 3,500 easy and creative ideas to use up nearly every kind of leftover. I loved reading this cookbook and gaining new ideas. Thanks to Scribner and NetGalley for a copy for an honest review.

The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z is a primer and comprehensive pantry resource guide by Tamar Adler. Due out 14th March 2023 from Simon & Schuster on their Scribner imprint, it's 560 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Food waste is a serious problem. Not just from a cost savings viewpoint, but also on a much larger we-need-to-use-our-resources-wisely philosophy This is a masterclass in efficient resource use and the author has a particularly appealing zen-like quality in the way she reasons with the reader and teases the best use out of what most people would consider trash.

This is *not* a pure cookbook, full of recipes. Rather, it is a book of tips and philosophy for prepping, storing, and using every bit of the food resources to which the reader has access. In ages past, up until around 100+/- years ago, every household had a stillroom or pantry book, full of clippings and recipes. These books were often handed down through generations (I have my maternal grandmother's book, which she had from her mother, and so on). This book has very much the vibe of those earlier how-to books with the addition of modern and up to date knowledge and a much more comprehensive waste-absolutely-nothing philosophy.

The illustrations by Caitlin Winner throughout support and enhance the earnest meditative vibe. They're beautifully rustic and complement the content and raise the whole to another level.

The layout is quirky and takes a bit of getting used to. It's arranged in roughly thematic chapters by ingredient groups: vegetables, fruits & nuts, dairy & eggs, bread, beans & rice, soup, seafood, meat & tofu, dough & noodles, salads, and much more (including a monumental chapter on pickling). The chapters are arranged roughly alphabetically by ingredients with tips for using and re-purposing where applicable. It really is a NO waste primer.

The early ARC provided by the publisher did not include the finished index, but there -is- a listed entry for an index in the table of contents, so presumably it will hopefully be as comprehensive as the book's content.

Five stars. This is a *valuable* resource and would be a wonderful selection for public or school library acquisition, gardening groups, community garden library, homestead, and home use. Not photographed, but reasonably well illustrated and complete.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I was given an advanced egalley of this book thanks to Netgalley and the publisher. What drew me to this book was that I had read Tamar Adler's earlier book The Everlasting Meal. I've had it on my bookshelf for years and admired her thoroughness. Flipping through this book on my kindle I loved the chapter titles "How to be Renewed", "How to Grow Old", etc. This book is a great reference to how to use up the random odds and ends. Carrot tops? She's got a recipe for that! Left over french fries? There are two options! It didn't take me long before I realized that this was a book I was going to need in hand on my cookbook shelf. We often eat three meals at home as a family and my husband loves to use our leftovers creatively. I immediately pre-ordered and I can't wait to gift it to him for Father's Day.

This is a cookbook for specific people. People who love to read cookbooks, people who are always looking for a new or creative way of not wasting anything, and people who want to learn many basics about food.

I loved it. It has none of my essential decision-making points for buying a new cookbook anymore. I’m sort of a picture nut, like to see a final pic of the outcome. But… I loved it. I loved it for the author’s knowledge of food and of technique. Many ideas were things I might have thought of once upon a time but never carried through.

Do not get the idea that this is a book full of new recipes. It is not. It’s an interesting, almost historic read. Many recipes are somewhat like those my mother taught me. Recipes handed down from her own mother and grandmother during a time when not even a scrap of anything was wasted, the Depression.

It’s a smart book. A way to save money and very practical, even a book to curl up with. A reference book in some ways. A good addition to my collection.

This could also be titled the no waste campaign. The author has a way to use, basically, everything so nothing goes to waste. It’s pretty remarkable. We aren’t big leftover people so this book was an eye opener for me. I definitely will be using some of the ideas.

When Alice Waters and Samin Nosrat blurb a cookbook, you pick up the cookbook —- and I’m so glad I did!! What a gem. Not only is this a guidebook of recipes for utilizing leftovers and foraged ingredients, it’s also a resource for things like how much zest can you probably get from a lemon or how much is a medium stalk of celery - 1/2 cup. How WONDERFUL for shopping planning to not waste! This will be a trusted source in my kitchen and a PERFECT gift for anyone. Fabulous! Thanks to Simon and Schuster for the advanced copy. What a gift!

This is a fantastic cookbook that is unique in both its content and organization. It is warm and inviting, just like the food it encourages you to use to prevent waste. I really appreciated how loosely the recipes can be interpreted, as well as the general guidance and best practices for re-using and using up leftovers, especially produce. Let's face it, we all have had a drawer of wilted veggies and less than appetizing looking fruit, right? I know I do! I also really appreciated the "this one is tricky, just do your best" style recipes because I am a simple cook and some things are beyond my skill level. I found this book wholly inviting, not intimidating, and gracious in every aspect--just like all my favorite cooks!

This is a great cookbook that is more than just recipes for leftovers It shows you how to use every kitchen scrap to create delicious meals. It even tells you about greens growing in your yard that will make great dishes. This is a detailed, comprehensive guide to food and cooking that will make sure that nothing is wasted, you will eat well, and you will save money doing it.

I received a free copy of this book from the publishers via Netgalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.

What a great, foundational resource for cooking and household food management! I wish I’d had this book when I was learning to cook. I plan to order a copy and keep it in my kitchen — I was impressed by the breadth of ingredients covered and the ideas for using all pieces of a food item or leftovers.