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The best vegetarian cookbook is the classic Moosewood cookbook. Moosewood is famous for its vegetarian and vegan recipes hand-written and illustrated by Mollie Katzen into the book first published in the late 1970′s. Since then it has been revised and more cookbooks have been written by Molly, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest is also a classic. The range of dishes in these books is wonderful, so is her website.
Nigella Lawson does show off her sexy in the kitchen (tiresome), but she has some really great sweet recipes and good recipes for big dinners and celebrations- especially in Feast. If it’s chocolate you’re looking for check out Nigella, she may be cocoas biggest fan.
Jamie Oliver, some love him, some hate him, but his Jamie at Home cookbook is really great. If you’re lucky enough to have a plot of earth, check out this one of Jamie’s books for some really nice, healthy, wholesome, fresh from the garden recipes as well as growing tips and when to plant veggies.
Just recently someone kindly gifted us a Barefoot Contessa cookbook- Back to Basics, by Ina Garten. Garten is a New Yorker who owned a specialty food store in that city for a long time. Her books are good for recipes that use pretty simple easy to get ingredients in really tasty ways.
The Asian Vegan Kitchen: Authentic and Appetizing Dishes from a Continent of Rich Flavors is a great vegan cookbook. These days it is getting easier and easier to find good cookbooks for vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists etc. This is an all round Asian cookbook with recipes scanning India to Japan.
For Raw foodies or anyone with broad eating ranges, RAW the uncook book, is a truly great one and anyone raw or otherwise will enjoy the inspired and healthy recipes in this book.
Country Breads of the World: 88 of the worlds best recipes for baking bread, is an amazing book for bakers of bread. No bread machines here, just a delicious selection of breads from everywhere!
Maggie Beer is well known for her cooking expertise. At 736 pages, Harvest is bound to become one of those staples in home kitchens, the book that has everything. She likes to be called a cook and not a chef, but really her food speaks for itself.
Speaking of classics Stephanie Alexander is another cookbook author whose epic kitchen masterpiece could be all you need. Championing Australian ingredients and recipes The Cooks Companion is a must have for anyone who needs a good broad general index of great recipes and ingredients.
Of course there are a million cookbooks in existence, and everyone has their fav. These are just a few of our tried and true, but let us know your picks and we’ll keep this list growing.