Vegetable Literacy

Deborah Madison, Americas leading vegetarian cooking authority and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising connections between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families in her latest cookbook, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in a new light. Deborah Madison has been at the forefront of the vegetarian culinary movement for nearly three decades, producing classic books on the topic and inspiring millions of readers to create simple, beautiful plant-based meals. Madisons crowning achievement is this innovative new cookbook, which is a celebration of the plant kingdoms richness and an examination of the interesting links between crops, edible flowers, herbs, and common wild plants within the same botanical families. Vegetable Literacy, destined to become the new standard reference for cooking vegetables, demonstrates to cooks how vegetables from the same family may be used interchangeably in cooking due to related qualities. Madisons broad understanding of cooking, gardening, and botany is used to provide a totally new perspective on veggies. Knowing that dill, chervil, cumin, parsley, coriander, anise, lovage, and caraway are all members of the umbellifer family, its easy to see why theyre such fantastic partners for carrots. Madison pulls this wealth of information together in dishes that emphasize a world of complementing flavors with more than 300 traditional and wonderfully easy recipes. Vegetable Literacy—an unmatched look at gourmet vegetables and plants—will permanently transform the way we eat and prepare, inspiring creativity in the kitchen and inquiry in the garden.