The ultimate one-stop vegetarian cookbook-from the author of the classic How to Cook Everything.

Hailed as "a more hip Joy of Cooking" by the Washington Post, Mark Bittman's award-winning book How to Cook Everything has become the bible for a new generation of home cooks, and the series has more than 1 million copies in print. Now, with How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian, Bittman has written the definitive guide to meatless meals-a book that will appeal to everyone who wants to cook simple but delicious meatless dishes, from health-conscious omnivores to passionate vegetarians.

How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian includes more than 2,000 recipes and variations-far more than any other vegetarian cookbook. As always, Bittman's recipes are refreshingly straightforward, resolutely unfussy, and unfailingly delicious-producing dishes that home cooks can prepare with ease and serve with confidence. The book covers the whole spectrum of meatless cooking-including salads, soups, eggs and dairy, vegetables and fruit, pasta, grains, legumes, tofu and other meat substitutes, breads, condiments, desserts, and beverages. Special icons identify recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less and in advance, as well as those that are vegan. Illustrated throughout with handsome line illustrations and brimming with Bittman's lucid, opinionated advice on everything from selecting vegetables to preparing pad Thai, How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian truly makes meatless cooking more accessible than ever.

Praise for How to Cook Everything Vegetarian:

"Mark Bittman's category lock on definitive, massive food tomes continues with this well-thought-out ode to the garden and beyond. Combining deep research, tasty information, and delicious easy-to-cook recipes is Mark's forte and everything I want to cook is in here, from chickpea fries to cheese souffls."Mario Batali, chef, author, and entrepreneur

"How do you make an avid meat eater (like me) fall in love with vegetarian cooking? Make Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian part of your culinary library."Bobby Flay, chef/owner of Mesa Grill and Bar Americain and author of the Mesa Grill Cookbook

"Recipes that taste this good aren't supposed to be so healthy. Mark Bittman makes being a vegetarian fun."Dr. Mehmet Oz, Professor of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center and coauthor of You: The Owner's Manual

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Christian vegetarianism is a Christian belief based on effecting the compassionate teachings of Jesus, the twelve apostles and the early church to all sentient or living beings through vegetarianism or, ideally, veganism. Alternatively, Christians may be vegetarian for ethical, environmental, nutritional or other spiritual reasons.[1][2]

Various church founders have recommended vegetarianism, such as William Cowherd from the Bible Christian Church and Ellen G. White from the Seventh-day Adventists.[3][4] Cowherd, who founded the Bible Christian Church in 1809, helped to establish the world's first Vegetarian Society in 1847.[5]

While vegetarianism is not a common practice in current western Christian thought and culture, the concept and practice has scriptural and historical support. According to the Bible, in the beginning, before the Fall, human and nonhuman animals, which are beings that have or are an nima, Latin for soul,[6][7] were completely vegetarian, and "it was very good".[Genesis 1:29-31] According to some interpretations of the Bible, raw veganism was the original diet of humankind in the form given to Adam and Eve by God in Genesis 1:29, "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat" (see Edenic diet).

Immediately after the Flood, God allegedly permitted the eating of meat,[Genesis 9:3] but forbade consuming "blood, which is life".[Genesis 9:4] However, some maintain that God permitted the consumption of meat only temporarily because all plants had been destroyed as a result of the flood,[8] despite the lack of any reference to this in Genesis itself. Christian vegetarians interpret that passage not as a free pass to kill for eating if the blood is supposedly excluded from alimentation,[9] but as an invitation (rhetoric or not) to necrophagy. "The biological fact is: no matter what you do you can never remove all the blood from the flesh of a slaughtered animal."[10][11]

One of the Ten Commandments says categorically, "Thou shalt not kill" without specifying that some animals are allowed to be killed. Isaiah states "He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man."[Isaiah 66:3] However, specific sacrifices of animals for the atonement of sin were also mandated, by Moses, what may be inconsistent with the principle of grace or that one cannot force God to forgive. When the Moabite king Mesha offered in a holocaust "his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead" in order that his army were spared in a war against Israel, the Israelites felt so outraged, that they decided to stop the battle "and returned to their own land".[2Kings 3:27] (See Speciesism.)

Centuries after Noah, Leviticus 11 records God giving the Israelites rules about what types of meat may be eaten, suggesting that certain meats were acceptable. The Old Testament says that God commanded the Israelites to eat meat on some occasions. During the Exodus out of Egypt and the first Passover, God commanded that all of the Israelites to slaughter a Passover lamb and eat it. This was to be a lasting tradition.[Exodus 12:24] The sacrifices (including the Paschal Lamb), however, are considered as types of the Lamb of God, an innocent victim, tortured and murdered.

The Israelites tired of manna, a food of which "The Rabbis of the Talmud held that [] had whatever taste and flavor the eater desired at the time of eating"[12] and which probably was not an animal product[7] and was offered to them by God during The Exodus.[Numbers 11:4-10] They preferred meat, and were condemned for it.[Numbers 11:32-34] Because of that lust, the place where the incident happened became known as Kibroth Hattaavah.[12]

A donkey temporarily given the ability to speak showed Balaam more than signs of sentience.[Numbers 22:21-33]

Some Christians believe that the Bible explains that, in the future, human and nonhuman animals will return to veganism, regarded by animal abolitionists as the moral baseline of animal rights:[13]

[] The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. [] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

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By Joe Yonan Food and Dining Editor November 17 at 7:30 AM

Last year around this time, I was crowing about the fact that without a turkey to worry about, Thanksgiving planning and cooking get a whole lot less complicated. But now that Im working on my third vegetarian version of the holiday dinner, Im realizing that I start with the same decision every year: what to cook that will look impressive enough to take its place at the center of the table. Call me Rockwellian, but I cant let go of the idea that the feast needs a focus, particularly visually.

Part of my impulse can be traced to a firm belief that vegetarians and vegans deserve to be served something special, something that doesnt seem like a side-dish afterthought and, of course, something that glorifies the vegetables themselves. Why concoct a centerpiece dish that is vegetarian merely by virtue of the absence of meat? No big bowls of pasta, no layered egg-and-cheese dishes at my table. Not this year.

I decided to seek out candidates for centerpiece status that didnt rely on animal products at all not because Im vegan, but because I wanted to see whether that would force me to elevate the produce that is (or should be) at the heart of this harvest festival.

I realize that something Ive made for parties a few times could be just the ticket: a whole roasted cauliflower, a la Alice Waters. In The Art of Simple Food II, she writes about making one as a festive appetizer, letting guests pull off florets to dip in one pungent sauce or another. But with all the glorious colors cauliflower come in at farmers markets these days, I imagined one (or more, depending on my guest list) as a stunning main course. Coincidentally, Michael Ruhlmans new book How to Roast suggests the same idea, calling for the head to be basted with butter during roasting, then covered with the classic polonaise (hard-cooked eggs, bread crumbs, parsley) before being cut into wedges at the table.

I went with something in between the two ideas, using a simple but generous drizzle of olive oil instead of the butter basting, and serving the cauliflower with a sharp chimichurri sauce and sliced almonds. The only dilemma I had when testing was deciding which I liked better: the purple Graffiti variety or the orange cheddar one. Its a tough call, but if I find a chartreuse-green Romanesco cauliflower, with its fractal-pattern pyramid shape, in time, thats probably what Ill roast for the holiday.

At the other end of the spectrum, I also like the idea of something individual, like the mushroom-and-stout potpies I found on the beautiful Web site The First Mess. Writer Laura Wright, who lives in Ontario, Canada, put together a beautifully deep-flavored mushroom base, then spiked it with dark stout beer and enlivened it with tart olives. The crowning touch: spirals of thinly sliced sweet potato as the crust. I made them in a combination of cocottes, some of them stoneware and some cast-iron, plus some large ramekins and even a coffee mug or two.

For Thanksgiving, I imagine presenting them on tiered platters, instructing guests to grab one (carefully they should be served hot!) as theyre filling their plates.

Which way to go: big or small? At the risk of seeming indecisive, Im thinking both. I realize I was setting out to find one focus for the table, not two, but because this is a holiday about bounty, I have a feeling I can make it all work.

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