The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook: Your Guide to the Best Foods on Earth : What to Eat, Where to Get It, How to Prepare It - Softcover

this book will inspire vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike
Not just for people who have cut meat out of their diet, this is a book for people who love good food. As Diana says, you wouldn't call French food jalapeno-free food, so why would you classify this fabulous cuisine as meat free? Don't label it for what it doesn't include, but instead for what it does...all sort of wonderful, appealing grains, vegetables, fruits, and seasonings. Our supermarket shelves are getting more crowded every day with all sorts of options, so pick up a saucepan and head for the kitchen. Diana and I are very proud of this book, and hope you love it, too.

A Fresh Look at Vegetarian Food!
Vegetarian cooking has blossomed into a bountiful cuisine--an American cuisine that makes the most of this nation's unique ability to cultivate everything that grows. It has opened our palates to new tastes, enticing us with produce, legumes and grains we may not have tried at other times. In The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook you'll find over 600 recipes along with guidelines for improvisation, so you can not only prepare anything from muffins and frittatas to soups, stews, pastas, and more, but "make it your own."An ample appendix includes tips on a number of topics such as feeding last-minute guests, improving the flavor of convenience foods, and making the most of a small kitchen. All recipes include do-ahead tips, preparation time, storage advice and nutritional information. And almost every page features fun food-related facts from etymology, history and the arts. The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook offers good food and infectious enthusiasm for it. Altogether, it's a book to be savored by people who love food of all kinds.