GENERALLY SPEAKING: The familiar cookbook now comes in a bilingual format that features English and Spanish versions of its text side by side.
Most of the book is devoted to the collection of 125 "favorite American recipes." This includes Shrimp Creole or, if you prefer, Camarones a la Criolla; and Peanut Butter Cookies, aka Galletas de Mantequilla de Mani. Tucked into the back are glossaries, and basic information on nutrition and cooking.
TITLE: Apocalypse Chow by Jon Robertson with Robin Robertson (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $12.95; 256 pages).
GENERALLY SPEAKING: The book is subtitled How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out. The authors explain how they discovered how to eat well without electricity, as opposed to just surviving miserably, after enduring four major hurricanes since they moved to the South in 1983.
Apocalypse Chow is packed with practical ideas, 68 recipes and much more - a wide variety of useful advice, including plans for staying put, protecting your home, suggested disaster supply kits, and tips on how to improvise so that you can carry out the recipes whether you stay home or flee to a distant motel.
TITLE: Follow Your Heart Cookbook: Recipes from the Vegetarian Restaurant By Janice Cook Knight (John Wiley & Sons Inc., $18.95; 224 pages).
GENERALLY SPEAKING: This books for serious vegetarians offers more than 140 recipes from the Follow Your Heart vegetarian restaurant in Los Angeles. The author, former head chef of the restaurant, serves up egg recipes without eggs (such as Huevos No Tenemos, which features sauteed tofu), chicken potpie made with "chicken style" wheatmeat or seitan and an alternative Thanksgiving menu. A fat-free chocolate snacking cake gets its flavor from prune baby food.
The cookbook follows the restaurant's "lacto-vegetarian" sensibilities, which means no meat, poultry, fish or eggs, but does permit dairy products. But Knight writes that many of the recipes also are appropriate for stricter vegan diets.
