The Vegetarian Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity — by Karen Page with photographs by Andrew Dornenburg

"Open this book to just about any page and you will find yourself in an orchard of inspiration and useful information organized from every angle: seasons, flavors, ethnic tradition, ingredient affinities. The logic of delicious plant food cookery is ripe for the picking- accessible, instructional, and even playful. Karen Page's thorough, generous message is an intuition booster for every level of experience, and Andrew Dornenburg's beautiful images will make it all feel magical and pull you in, guaranteed." — Mollie Katzen, author of The Heart of the Plate and The Moosewood CookbookThroughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety of reasons, from ethics to economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor -- which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. The Vegetarian Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity is based on insights from dozens of leading