The recipe is inspired by one in Patricia Wells's cookbook "Vegetable Harvest".
Today we sat down with the author Deborah Madison to discuss her new cookbook, "Vegetable Literacy," as part of Recipe Lab, a monthly feature in which you, our readers, are invited to cook with us.
Later, after a scholar named John Evelyn lost his wife due to the very unhealthy food, it became more frequent after he published a new cookbook featuring vegetables and fruit as a health food.
In his first cookbook, "Ottolenghi," vegetable dishes were often spiked with a bit of meat: try the caramelized endive, smothered in bread crumbs, Parmesan, thyme, and cream, and roasted with a topping of serrano ham.
Barbara Kafka, writer and editor of 13 cookbooks, including "Vegetable Love" (Artisan, 2005), applauds the improvisational impulse.
This recipe is inspired by one in Alice Waters's Chez Panisse Vegetables cookbook, and will force even the most ardent sprout despiser to change their tune.
Home cooks like me, who use her magisterial book "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" regularly, may think there is no need for another vegetable cookbook in this lifetime.
She introduced writer to Bert Greene, a noted food expert who has just published a vegetable cookbook called "Greene on Greens," and who went on a transcontinental bar-hopping trip on behalf of Tia Maria.
Mrs. Robbins also wrote about a dozen cookbooks, including "25 Vegetables Anyone Can Grow" (Crowell, 1942) and "How to Cook Well" (Crowell, 1946), and she collaborated on "The Dione Lucas Meat and Poultry Cook Book" (Little Brown, 1955).
Susie's vegetable cookbook, Fast, Fresh & Green is coming this April from Chronicle books.
