Provides a guide to preparing vegan dishes, including recipes for soups, stews, dips, entrées, breads, desserts, and kids' meals, along with discussions on ingredients, substitutions, and vegan cleaning products

"[A] rainbow of appealing recipes . . . likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse." —Publishers Weekly
From Fine Cooking's Vegetable Queen, this book is ideal for vegetarians—or anyone who wants to get the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and greens into their daily diet. Susie Middleton shares her love of healthful, delicious veggies with a guide to shopping for and cooking delectable meatless meals, including...

From gorgonzola-walnut to rosemary-lamb, sauces to make every pasta dish more memorable—includes full-color photos.
Living on a farm in Tuscany, Pamela Sheldon Johns knows more than a little about Italian cooking, and 50 Great Pasta Sauces showcases some of her best sauces collected throughout her extensive culinary career. The recipes are divided into four mouthwatering categories—vegetable sauces, meat sauces, seafood sauces,...

Organized by course and main ingredient, this collection of recipes includes American and ethnic dishes, including smoky black bean burritos, pesto pasta with cranberry beans, and spicy vegetable couscous.

"The long-awaited cookbook from the food blogging phenom, Deb Perelman -- home cook, mom, photographer, and celebrated author of SmittenKitchen.com." --

Americans have at last discovered Mexico's passion for exciting food. We've fallen in love with the great Mexican combination of rich, earthy flavors and casual, festive dining. But we don't begin to imagine how sumptuous and varied the cooking of Mexico really is.

After ten years of loving exploration, Rick Bayless, together with his wife, Deann, gave us Authentic Mexican, this now classic, easy-to-use compendium of our southern neighbor's

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When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, "You write recipes just the way I do," she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia's praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie's "wonderfully encouraging voice" and "the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble." Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple...

"Delicious and healthy vegetable-forward recipes are at the heart of this cookbook that features ingredients abundant in the Pacific Northwest. As increasing numbers of us commit to making vegetables and fruits a larger part of our daily diet (and to reducing the amount of meat consumed), we need satisfying, uncomplicated ideas for every meal of the day. In this collection, you will find 100 tasty ways to enjoy seasonal fruits, vegetables, grains,...

The popular author of What's for Dinner? shares nearly two hundred recipes showcasing simple, fresh ingredients in this "accessible, inviting collection" (Publishers Weekly).
With its practical emphasis on delicious, healthful ingredients and nearly two hundred recipes with a West Coast flair, Pacific Fresh is sure to become a favorite of home cooks everywhere. From such savory starters as Roasted Red Pepper Crostini...

This book offers a novel approach to food writing, presenting a history of eating habits and mores through the lens of the technologies we use to prepare, serve, and consume food. It tells the history of food through its tools across different eras and continents to present a fully rounded account of humans' evolving relationship to kitchen technology. From the birth of the fork in Italy as it discovered pasta, to culture wars over spoons in Restoration...