What I wanted to do with Veg-Table was write a book that was less academic and more practical. The book answers several questions: What is a vegetable? Where did our vegetables originate? How does plant biology affect how we prepare and eat vegetables? How can we apply science to our cooking? How to incorporate fun flavors in exciting ways with the vegetables we eat. In this book, you’ll encounter more than 50 vegetables from 15 different plant families. Some vegetables, like cabbages and potatoes, will be more familiar to some, while others, like cassava and cactus, will be less. This book shows you how to use these vegetables in your meals through more than 100 recipes. I hope you will enjoy this book as much as I have creating the recipes.

Signed copies of Veg-Table are available through Now Serving, Kitchen Arts & Letters, Book Larder, and Omnivore Books. They also ship internationally. 

This is a book about celebrating vegetables in all their glory. My goal with this book is to encourage people to include more vegetables in fun ways in their cooking. While a significant portion of the recipes are vegetarian or vegan, there are a handful of meat-containing dishes. It is easy to leave out the meat in those recipes and I’ve included substitutions whenever possible. 

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