Vegetarian Classics: 300 Essential Recipes for Every Course and Every Meal

Jeanne Lemlin sets the standard for accessible and appealing vegetarian cooking. With Vegetarian Classics, Jeanne offers her most useful and comprehensive book to date: an essential collection of 300 no-fail recipes for soups, salads, sandwiches, pastas, pizzas, calzones, casseroles, stir-fries, stove-top dishes, sides, snacks, desserts, and breakfasts. Here you'll find the very best renditions of such classic meat-free dishes as Lentil Soup, Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragu, and Vegetable Curry -- as well as such new and updated favorites as Provencal Green Bean Salad, Penne with Garlicky Butternut Squash, and White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake. Each recipe is deeply satisfying and surprisingly simple, reflecting Jeanne's trademark dedication to uncomplicated techniques and unparalleled flavor.

So whether you are a vegetarian hoping to add new zest to your recipe repertoire, or even a meat eater who enjoys good, honest food, Vegetarian Classics is sure to provide an indispensable bounty of great recipes and insightful methods that will elevate your cooking from ordinary to exceptional.

Jeanne Lemlin has been writing about great vegetarian food for more than a decade. Her many books include MainCourse Vegetarian Pleasures, Simple Vegetarian Pleasures, and Quick Vegetarian Pleasures, for which she won a prestigious James Beard Cookbook Award. A cooking instructor and food writer, she is a columnist for Cooking Ligbt and a contributor to Gourmet and Country Journal. Jeanne lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.