 | Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $9.50 A basic. Especially for new vegetarians or vegetarians who are new to doing their own cook'g. Like most of DM, it makes you feel like a "good witch" o' the kitchen. Lots of herbs and stirring.
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 | Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day by Moosewood Collective
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.22 One of the two best Moosewood cookbooks and ideal for those folks who don't keep huge amounts of "stuff" in their kitchens. It's Moosewood, so it has fish.
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 | Moosewood Restaurant New Classics by Moosewood Collective
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $9.90 I used to live on old M'wood cookbooks. Then I realized vegetarianism had much to offer beyond sour cream, cottage cheese, nuts, seeds. But M'wood has realized it too. The new books are great.
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 | The Savory Way by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $7.19 If I could have only one cookbook for all needs--for everyday delicious meals and for astounding company--this would be the one I'd buy. Hands down.
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 | Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Yamuna Devi
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $15.35 I think this cookbook is to vegetarian Indian cookbooks what the OED is to words. I've loved almost every dish I've made. Good reading. Thoughtful. Inspiring. Informative about ingredients
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 | Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals by Linda McCartney
Buy used from: $0.74 I don't cook with this one a lot. However, it's good, and it contains the recipes best loved by non-veg (relatively dedicated carnivore) friends. (odd, with all the TVP, but...?)
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 | Sheila Lukins All Around the World Cookbook by Sheila Lukins
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $0.01 Okay, so this one isn't vegetarian. I still use it, and still love it. Wouldn't be without it.
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 | U.S.A. Cookbook by Sheila Lukins
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.35 Ditto for this one. Sheila Lukins can really make a person believe that there's more than hotdish out there--even in the midwest. She makes me want to go to Alaska and Michigan and....great stuff.
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 | Bugialli's Italy: Traditional Recipes From The Regions Of Italy by Giuliano Bugialli
Buy used from: $3.20 Not having yet found a vegetarian Italian cookbook I like, I rest with this one. Worth buying just for the several "no meat included" recipes within its pages. And fun to read--a charming chef.
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 | Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure by Lorna J. Sass
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $8.06 Everyone I know who has it loves this cookbook. To me, the recipes are just not very "lively" or terribly interesting. Still, worth the purchase price for the pressure cooker advice it offers.
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 | Charlie Trotter's Vegetables by Charlie Trotter
Buy new: $39.20 / Used from: $19.95 I don't have it. At the price, I probably won't buy it soon. But if you're looking for a gift book for a mostly veg cook--This is THE book that has this veg-tendency cook always dreaming.
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 | American Indian Cooking: Recipes from the Southwest by Carolyn Niethammer
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $5.18 Wunderbar reading. I've only made the teas; to do more, I'd need to move to the Southwest, I think. Enough of it is meatless but my interest here is in history and story.
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 | The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
Buy used from: $1.60 A good friend recommended MFK Fisher to me; another group of good friends bought me the book. Wise people, all. I'm endlessly grateful!
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 | Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads: Revised and Expanded by Bernard Clayton
Buy used from: $3.25 I gave away my bread machine a year ago in favor of something that seemed more real. Here it is.
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 | The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking by Rick Curry
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $2.09 Here, too (see note above).
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 | The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking by Laurel Robertson
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $3.18 And this is a great primer.
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