 | A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen: Easy Seasonal Dishes for Family and Friends by Jack Bishop
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.87 organized by season. for weeknight, from-scratch cooking. I love this book!
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 | Fresh Food Fast: Delicious, Seasonal Vegetarian Meals in Under an Hour by Peter Berley
Buy used from: $19.56 organized by season. for weeknight, from-scratch cooking.
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 | Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by DEBORAH MADISON
Buy used from: $21.66 organized by season, includes some meat dishes. good advice on shopping at farmer's markets. this book is only available in paperback, but I recommend digging up a hardcover copy as it's sure to get a lot of use!
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 | The Flexitarian Table: Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone inBetween by Peter Berley
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $10.99 organized by season. each meal has a veggie option & a meat option - pick one or prepare both & make everyone happy!
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 | Simple Soirees: Seasonal Menus for Sensational Dinner Parties by Peggy Knickerbocker
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $5.75 organized by season, not vegetarian. james beard award-winner.
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 | Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table by Suzanne Goin
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $22.03 organized by season, not vegetarian. labor-intensive.
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 | Alfred Portale's Twelve Seasons Cookbook : A Month-by-Month Guide to the Best There is to Eat by Alfred Portale
Buy used from: $8.45 organized by season. not vegetarian. some recipes more labor-intensive.
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 | The Cafe Paradiso Cookbook: Vegetarian Cooking Season-by-Season by Denis Cotter
Buy used from: $155.49 organized by season. recipes from this award-winning chef's world-famous restaurant.
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 | The Tra Vigne Cookbook by Michael Chiarello
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $4.36 organized by season. not vegetarian. See also his books on infused oils & infused vinegars.
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 | I Am Almost Always Hungry: Seasonal Menus and Memorable Recipes by Lora Zarubin
Buy new: $20.63 / Used from: $12.48 organized by season, not veg. bit more taxing.
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 | Cooking with Nora: Seasonal Menus from Restaurant Nora - Healthy, Light, Balanced, and Simple Food with Organic Ingredients by Nora Pouillon
Buy used from: $9.03 organized by season, not veg.
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 | Williams-Sonoma Complete Seasonal Cookbook
Buy used from: $13.00 you can also get this book in separate volumes by season. not vegetarian.
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 | Stonewall Kitchen Harvest: Celebrating the Bounty of the Seasons by Jim Stott
Buy used from: $7.15 regional cookbook, not veg. or try "Fresh Every Day: More Great Recipes from Foster's Market" for contemporary southern home cooking or "Seasonal Southwest Cooking."
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 | The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce Plus Seasonal Recipes by Peggy Knickerbocker
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.12 pick up a farmer's market cookbook that's suitable for your region or try one of these: "The Santa Monica Farmer's Market Cookbook," "Fresh From the Farmer's Market," "The Farmer's Market Cookbook," "The Greenmarket Cookbook"
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 | The Taste Of The Season: Inspired Recipes for Fall and Winter by Diane Rossen Worthington
Buy used from: $8.21 inspiration for those long winter months when produce is limited. not vegetarian.
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 | The Real Food Daily Cookbook: Really Fresh, Really Good, Really Vegetarian by Ann Gentry
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.30 vegan. entrees organized by season.
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 | The Healthy Hedonist Holidays: A Year of Multi-Cultural, Vegetarian-Friendly Holiday Feasts by Myra Kornfeld
Buy new: $16.96 / Used from: $3.47 Please the vegetarians and the omnivores at your table on holidays, without resorting to tofurky.
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 | Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice L. Waters
Buy new: $25.16 / Used from: $11.00 what to do with all the gorgeous fruit you just picked. See also "Chez Panisse Vegetables" for more guidance from the queen of local, organic, fresh ingredients.
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 | Vegetables Every Day: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Today's Produce With over 350 Recipes by Jack Bishop
Buy used from: $18.64 Inventive ways to prepare 60-odd veggies as side dishes, with basic information on each, organized by vegetable. by an editor at Cook's Illustrated.
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 | Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens by Johnna Albi
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $11.66 what to do with all those incredibly healthy leafy greens.
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 | Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $20.95 learn the basic building blocks of vegetarian cooking. includes a large section of recipes organized by vegetable. See also any other book by Madison, like "Vegetarian Suppers" and "Vegetable Soups."
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 | The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor by Jerry Traunfeld
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $18.66 learn to add flavor with a cook's best friend - herbs. not vegetarian. see also "The Herbfarm Cookbook." good advice on growing & using herbs in addition to great recipes.
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 | Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon
Buy used from: $12.00 this mammoth tome by a true food-lover will keep you busy & inspired for a long time!
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 | Homegrown Pure and Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table by Michel Nischan
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $7.68 healthy, light & yummy. not vegetarian. includes some recipes for "extending the harvest" - jams, pickled veggies, infused oils.
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 | Everyday Greens: Home Cooking from Greens, the Celebrated Vegetarian Restaurant by Annie Somerville
Buy new: $32.40 / Used from: $21.78 delicious recipes. See also "The Greens Cookbook" & "Field of Greens."
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 | Starting With Ingredients: The Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Cook by Aliza Green
Buy used from: $8.72 what to do with what you've got. not vegetarian.
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 | The Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $12.50 learn to cook the way chefs do - working with the ingredients on hand. for a more advanced look at the art of improvising, see "Think Like a Chef" by Tom Colicchio & "Culinary Artistry" by Andrew Dornenburg.
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 | The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash
Buy used from: $29.90 Check out a classic. This one is a cookbook for gardeners, or a gardening book for cooks. Valuable info on dealing with that abundant harvest. See also "Perla Meyer's Art of Seasonal Cooking." She wrote the seasonal food bible in the 70s - "The Seasonal Kitchen: A Return to Fresh Foods," but this later offering (from around 1990) is a *bit* lighter on the heavy sauces.
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 | How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 know your ingredients. includes recipes.
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 | Field Guide to Produce: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market by Aliza Green
Buy used from: $13.56 small enough to carry with you.
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 | Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference: 500 Recipes, 275 Photographs by Elizabeth Schneider
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $38.03 get to know your ingredients with the bible of veggie reference books.
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 | The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning by Janet Chadwick
Buy used from: $5.99 hey, you can only eat so many cucumbers at one time. i recommend getting a food dehydrator & a sturdy scale.
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 | Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving by Judi Kingry
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $18.37 ditto.
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 | Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $19.68 ditto.
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 | Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.95 from building a root cellar to how to cold-store produce in a city apartment.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $7.16 when the cooking gets tough, the tough (& hungry) remind ourselves of why we're doing this!
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 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $8.17 ditto.
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 | Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith
Buy used from: $2.96 ditto.
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 | The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside by Amanda Hesser
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.95 a fun read & a james beard award-winner.
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 | The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
Buy used from: $7.44 hmm...i wonder what nigel slater eats every day for a year..?
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