Ten Talents (cookbook)
Author | Rosalie Hurd, Frank J. Hurd |
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Language | English |
Subject | Vegetarian and vegan cuisine |
Genre | Cookbook |
Published | 1968 |
Awards | Silver Medal at the 2009 Living Now Book Awards |
Website | https://tentalents.net/ |
Ten Talents is a vegetarian and vegan cookbook originally published in 1968 by Rosalie Hurd and Frank J. Hurd. At the time, it was one of the few resources for vegetarian and vegan cooks. The cookbook promotes Christian vegetarianism and a Bible-based diet, in keeping with teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. By 1991, the 750-recipe cookbook was entering its 44th printing and had sold more than 250,000 copies. An expanded edition with more than 1,000 recipes was issued in 2012.
Title
The title refers to a quote from
Description
The 1968 edition consisted of 750
Numerous recipes using soybean products such as soy pulp, soy milk powder, and soy flour are featured.[2] According to Shurtleff and Aoyagi, Ten Talents is the first cookbook to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes and the earliest to have a recipe for soy sour cream.[2] Only one chapter includes recipes with animal products—namely, milk and eggs—"for those who are in the transitional period", the authors note.[2]
The book published some of the first recipes for
Publishing history
The cookbook was originally self-published in May 1968.[2] It was updated in 1985;[3] at that time it was published by College Press of Collegedale, Tennessee.[2] In 1991, it was entering its 44th printing and had sold more than 250,000 copies.[2] The cookbook was expanded in 2012 to encompass more than 1,000 recipes.[4] In 2014 the cookbook was in its 48th printing.[7] It has always been published in a spiral binding.[1] Jonathan Kauffman, writing in Hippie Food (2018), said it sold hundreds of thousands of copies.[6]
Reception
In 1971 the Santa Cruz Sentinel called the book "one of the very few completely natural foods cookbooks",[8] and in 1977 the North American Vegetarian Society recommended the book as an encyclopedia of vegetarian cooking.[9]
In 1994 Vegetarian Times named it to their list of "Cookbooks You Can't Live Without" as a runner-up to the category of "Best Cookbooks for Beginners", saying it had been one of the few resources for vegetarian cooks in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was still one of the best general references.[3]
The 2004 Dietitian's Guide to Vegetarian Diets called it the classic Seventh-day Adventist cookbook.
Critical reviews
In 1976 Connie I. Dahlke, Chief Therapeutic Dietician at Boulder Memorial Hospital, sent a letter reviewing the book to the bookstore manager at the Colorado Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists in Denver; copies had been forwarded to hospital and university nutrition and home economics department heads and to the authors. The letter contained a 21-point negative review of the cookbook and asked that it be removed from sale. Among the criticisms were the book's preference for raw sugar and honey over brown sugar and refined white sugar; the claim that "sunflower seeds, almonds and coconut are 'valuable sources' of Vitamin D... when in fact they contain no Vitamin D"; and an assertion that "monstrous statements about the ingredients of ice cream... and objections to meat eating... reveal emotionalism and poor judgment". The authors reportedly responded to the criticisms by "making many changes" in the text before the next reprinting.[12]
A 1977 article in
Awards
The cookbook won a Silver Medal in the Cooking/Natural category at the 2009 Living Now Book Awards.[14]
Authors
Rosalie Hurd (b. April 1937
References
- ^ a b c Swift, Sally. "Joe Yonan's three must-have classic vegetarian cookbooks". The Splendid Table. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2012, pp. 423–4.
- ^ a b c Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon (November 1994). "Cookbooks You Can't Live Without". Vegetarian Times: 107.
- ^ a b c d "About Us". Ten Talents. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "A Good Cook...Ten Talents (first 1968 edition)". Cookbook Bazaar. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-06-243732-7.
- ^ a b c d Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2014, p. 496.
- ^ a b Smith, Mildred Ann (12 May 1971). "What's Cooking? Natural Foods". Santa Cruz Sentinel. p. 4. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Moore, Judy (5 May 1977). "Want to go meatless for a change?". The Miami News. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 15. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-7637-3241-7.
- ISBN 978-1-944648-69-5.
- ^ Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2014, p. 604.
- ^ Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2014, p. 618.
- ^ "2009 living now award winners". Living Now Awards. 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ "Cooking Class Sponsored". The Times. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
Sources
- Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2012). History of Roasted Whole Soy Flour (Kinako), Soy Coffee, Coffee Alternatives, Problems with Coffee, and Soy Chocolate (1540–2012). Soyinfo Center. ISBN 9781928914525.
- Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2014). History of Seventh-day Adventist Work with Soyfoods, Vegetarianism, Meat Alternatives, Wheat Gluten, Dietary Fiber and Peanut Butter (1863–2013): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook. Soyinfo Center. ISBN 978-1-928914-64-8.