''Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone'' is a 1997 cook book by Deborah Madison. It contains 1,400

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recipes from soups to desserts.

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In 2017 ''

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'' Food Editor Joe Yonan listed it as one of three must-have classic vegetarian cookbooks. In a review of ''Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone'', ''

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'' magazine wrote "Before you even read a word, the clean type, elegant, well-organized layout, and helpful illustrations reassure you that you won't be pulling your hair out trying to follow a recipe. And then Madison's warm, knowledgeable prose pulls you in." Michael Ruhlman noted "For all these reasons, in the 17 years I've been writing about cooks and cooking, I have purchased a single cookbook, several years ago, for myself, a single book to inspire me and broaden my culinary imagination: "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone," by Deborah Madison, .." and ''

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'' "found Madison to be a charming and non-threatening

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into the realm of what I imagined to be the half-dead, the eaters of what she frequently calls “plant food,” which, to me, sounded like “fish food.”" ''

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'' gave a starred review writing "Many have tried to create a reliable, encyclopedic vegetarian cookbook, but few have succeeded. Madison (The Greens Cookbook; The Savory Way) comes through with a weighty volume.." and called it an "incredibly complete and triumphant effort."

Awards

*1998 IACP Cookbook of the Year - winner *1998 James Beard Vegetarian Book Award - winner *2008 ''Gourmet'' August Cookbook Club Pick

''The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone''

In 2014 Madison published a revised version about which ''The Wall Street Journal'' wrote "Ms. Madison shows herself to be a formidable teacher not just of vegetarian cooking but of imaginative cooking generally."

References

{{Veganism and vegetarianism 1997 non-fiction books American cookbooks Vegetarian cookbooks

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Awards

''The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone''

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