What’s your favorite vegetarian cookbook?
With the vast array of recipes on the internet, I usually turn to Google before running to my cookbook shelf, which is full of dusty old tomes that remind me of college (which is when I used to use most of them). There’s the Moosewood Cookbook, which was all the rage back in the day. I learned the basics of Italian cooking from my well-loved Vegetarian Table: Italy. And Quick Vegetarian Pleasures has traveled with me to four different countries, although I can’t remember the last time I used it.
It just occurred to me that I haven’t purchased a new cookbook in ages. It’s probably been at least 5 years, maybe even longer. The one exception to this is the big, glossy Joia book from my favorite vegetarian restaurant in Milan, but I think of that more as an art book than a cook book (if you’ve ever had the fortune to eat at the restaurant, you’ll understand why - the food itself is easy to confuse with art).
So these days I find myself longing for a new book or two to add to the collection. Preferably something that will teach me fabulously delicious, easy, healthy recipes to add to my everyday rotation. Does such a book exist? What’s your favorite cookbook?
4 opinions for What’s your favorite vegetarian cookbook?
celine
Oct 24, 2006 at 12:19 am
Not sure this one will become your favourite since you already have Italian cookbooks on your list but I very much like it: Truly Italian
amey
Oct 29, 2006 at 5:35 pm
For what you’re looking for, I can *highly* recommend “The Vegan Mediterranean Kitchen” by Donna Klein. It’s one of my all-time favorite cookbooks. All normal ingredients, all original meditteranean recipes that just happen to be vegan (Greek, Spanish, Italian, French…). It’s great!
Also, it’s not always so healthy, and maybe a little US-centric, but “Vegan with a Vengance” is a truly amazing cookbook with some life-changing recipes!
Those are two of my top favorites.
Jul
Oct 31, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll check those out.
orangetabby
Aug 9, 2008 at 1:25 am
Anything by Anna Thomas is great (The Vegetarian Epicure, The New Vegetarian Epicure, and then later get The Vegetarian Epicure Book II after the others). Also, I have not tried them yet but also hear Madhur Jaffrey is good for Indian vegetarian cooking.
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