Excellent creative recipes for such odds and ends as chard stalks (sigh, definitely not my fave), leek greens, asparagus stalks, and apple peels. Definitely recommend for thrifty cooks!

although most of the recipies did not interest me I was interested in the use of the whole vegetable - especially using stalks.

There are certainly some good tips in here, and the recipes look alright, but this wasn't the comprehensive "use the whole plant completely" guide that I was hoping for (and that I feel was advertised by the title). Not a lot of generalizable tips, still many parts of the plant that go unused, etc.