Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton
Deborah Madison is the original vegetarian foodwriter, inspired and inspiring, and a pioneer in her very green field, showing us how to get extraordinary elegance, heartening earthiness and, always, flavour, flavour, flavour, out of the fruits of the earth. I have long loved her 'Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone' (recently updated as The New Vegetarian Cooking') and 'The Greens Cookbook'; I remember fondly, elegiacally, an enchanted dinner with my husband John at the late, lamented Greens Restaurant in San Francisco when I was young. So for me, this, her most recent book, is both a source of joy, and a must-have volume. Think of it as an enquiry, in the old lettered sense, into the botanical world: a grounded reflection on the life of plants (in the earth and in the kitchen) and a vibrant compendium of recipes which celebrate them.
Reprinted with permission from Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison, copyright (c) 2013.
Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House LLC.
Photography (c) 2013 by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton
Photo by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton
