These are some of the cookbooks we use the most and like the best:
Mark Bittman – How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
Jack Bishop and Richard Jung – A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen
Christine Ingram – Vegetarian and Vegetable Cooking
Moosewood Collective – Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites
Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza – Candle Cafe Cookbook
*Alice Waters – The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
*We don’t have this one, but I just read it and highly recommend it (I’m definitely asking for it for Christmas).
6 Comments
April 10, 2009 at 2:06 am
Another nice one, which is a great read and is full of very simple (and tasty) recipes is Helen Nearing’s Simple Food for the Good Life.
June 29, 2009 at 1:15 am
The Alice Walters book looks interesting. Is it strictly recipes or is there more “theory” and narrative?
Have you read “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan? I highly recommend it. For me, it is a very good theoretical and generically practical read.
On the very practical side, I reference “World’s Healthiest Foods” by George Mateljan daily. It has transformed the way I cook.
July 15, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I’ll toss in the not-so-well-known cookbooks I used when I first started cooking vegetarian:
Follow Your Heart’s Vegetarian Soup Cookbook
Bean Banquets (the recipes are arranged by cuisine)
July 16, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hey Mike,
I haven’t read In Defense of Food, but did read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I had somehow gotten the idea that the former was sort of a condensed version of the latter, but this may really not be the case.
Have you read both?
August 25, 2009 at 8:31 pm
“How It All Vegan” and “The Garden of Vegan” by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer. These were who I turned to when I discovered my dairy and egg allergy.
http://www.amazon.ca/Vegan-Irresistible-Recipes-Animal-Free-Diet/dp/1551520672
September 30, 2009 at 10:31 am
I’d include Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal Vegetable Miracle”. It’s mostly the story of her family’s move to Appalachia to live off their farm for one year, but it includes some great vegetarian recipes and tips for canning/freezing fresh produce.