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Sunday, 4 November 2012

Vegetarian Cookbook

ne of the major roadblocks I hear from folks considering going vegan or vegetarian is that they don’t know how to cook a meal without animal products. This makes total sense, if a meal to you is centered around the protein on your plate, and most of us grew up feeling like that was what a meal looked like. I’m a firm eliever that a good vegetarian or vegan cookbook is more than just a collection of recipes: it inspires you to put ogether a different sort of meal and re-teaches you how to cook. These are the veggie cookbooks that my kitchen would feel empty without:1. Moosewood CookbookMolly Katzen is the owner of the oosewood restaurant in New York and one of my cooking heroes. The Moosewood Cookbook was one of the first vegetarian cookbooks I ever owned, and I really learned a lot about how to cook vegetarian food from this one. She has a very flexible recipe style that encourages you to experiment, substitute, and learn.2. nomiconI almost think of Veganomicon as the Joy of Cooking for vegans. Isa Chandra Moskowitz is another one of my cooking heroes, and I’ve never made a recipe from this book that didn’t turn out deliciously. She features eautiful photos of the dishes and talks about food in a way that makes you excited to get cooking.