The ultimate guide to meatless meals, completely updated and better than ever, now for the first time featuring color photos Ten years ago, this breakthrough cookbook made vegetarian cooking accessible to everyone. Today, the issues surrounding a healthy plant-based diet―health, sustainability, and ethics―continue to resonate with more and more Americans, whether or not they’re fully vegetarian. This new edition has been completely reviewed and revised to stay relevant to today’s home cooks: New recipes include more vegan options and a brand-new chapter on smoothies, teas, and more. Charts, variations, and other key information have been updated. And, new for this edition, the recipes are showcased in bright full-color photos throughout. With these photos and a host of recipes destined to become new favorites, this already classic vegetarian cookbook will continue to be more indispensable than ever. This definitive resource for the modern home cook shows you how to unlock the flavor of everything from vegetables and grains to legumes and more: Vegetarian Recipes for Everyone: Discover an indispensable collection of recipes that makes meatless meals accessible and delicious, whether you’re a full-time vegetarian or just exploring a plant-based diet. - Comprehensive Vegetable Guide: Master the kitchen with an A-to-Z guide on preparing every major vegetable and fruit, complete with full-color photos to guide you. - Extensive Vegan Options: Explore a huge range of updated dishes, including more satisfying vegan recipes than ever before and an all-new chapter on smoothies, teas, and other drinks. - Cooking from Scratch: Go beyond the basics and learn from Mark Bittman how to make your own tofu, seitan, nut butters, and more pantry staples at home. "Mark Bittman is an excellent and accessible food writer, and an incredible resource when it comes to food policy and how our food system works. How to Cook Everything Vegetarian has earned its place on the bookshelf of cookbook classics." -ALICE WATERS, chef, author, activist, and founder of Chez Panisse "For almost a decade, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian has been my go-to guide for meatless cooking. Mark's approach is bold, accessible, of-the-moment, and beyond compare. And with each recipe, I can almost see Mark joking, shopping, whispering about beans, whole grains, and local vegetables, and begging us to join him on yet another delicious culinary adventure." -JESSICA KOSLOW, chef and owner of Sqirl and author of Everything I Want to Eat "Mark Bittman is the ultimate tour guide when it comes to vast subjects and a need for reassurance in the kitchen, and this tome about vegetarian cooking is no exception!" -YOTAM OTTOLENGHI, author of Jerusalem , Plenty , and Sweet "When Mark Bittman published How to Cook Everything Vegetarian in 2007 he gave me and my health-conscious friends a book that we all desperately needed. Fast-forward to today, when more and more people are considering the impact of what they eat, and this brilliantly updated edition takes on heightened importance for home cooks." -BRYANT TERRY, James Beard Foundation Leadership Award recipient and author of Afro-Vegan "Bittman’s evenhanded tone and his ability to cover a gamut of recipes, from crudités to fluffy vegan frosting made with coconut milk, render this book as relevant today as it was when it first appeared, and confirm its status as an indispensable resource." -  Publisher's Weekly  "Dated recipes and chapters have been overhauled or swapped for new ones, with full-color photographs appearing throughout. There are hundreds of versatile dishes (e.g., dumplings, everyday buttermilk waffles, curried stir-fried potatoes, BBQ jackfruit sandwiches) and indispensable tips—enough to keep readers engrossed for years."  -  Lisa Campbell,  Library Journal  Mark Bittman is the author of more than thirty books, including the  How to Cook Everything  series and the #1  New York Times  bestseller  VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. Over his long career at The New York Times , Bittman wrote for both the food and opinion pages, and was the lead Magazine food writer before launching his own popular web site, The Bittman Project. Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning  Years of Living Dangerously.  He is a longtime  TODAY  regular and has made hundreds of television, radio, and podcast appearances, including on  Jimmy Kimmel Live! ,  Real Time with Bill Maher,  and CBS’s  The Dish;  and on NPR’s  All Things Considered, Fresh Air,  and  Morning Edition. Together with daughter Kate Bittman, he has hosted their own podcast, Food with Mark Bittman since 2021. Bittman has written for countless publications and spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk “What’s wrong with what we eat?” has over five million views. He was a distinguished fellow at the University of Calif