Do we know if this is a NEW book, or just a subset of stuff from his original? I already have the big yellow one.

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Frankly there's a lot of good meatless recipes in "How to Cook Everything." A lot of other recipes in the book that don't actually feature meat have optional substitutions that make the recipes vegetarian and/or vegan. My recommendations include "lentils and rice with caramelized onions" and "roasted root vegetables" (sorry you'll have to look up page numbers yourself).

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Looks like an all new book. I wanted to make something with lentils last night, I looked in both How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian - no overlap in the indices, except both books had lentil soup, but even then, the recipes were a little different. And honestly, lentil soup is pretty standard :-) LOTS more lentil recipes in the Veg book than in the yellow one, too.

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Mark Bittman can attempt to draw us away from the pleasures of the flesh, but trust me, for every foodie who drools over lentils and squash there's three more grinning down at their freshly-killed steaks.

Meat-eaters will always outnumber vegetarians.

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Mark Bittman has obviously never had my husband's beef brisket.

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If one skips the chest-thumping flesh-eater/veg debate and looks instead at the reasoning, it gives one pause. If you're not clued into the unsustainability of the vast majority of the world's food production, especially our flesh production (cud-chewing or otherwise), you have a big awakening coming to you. When I finally give up meat, it won't be because I cease to love it, but rather because I value humanity's existence more...

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this is progressive, i like it. as a personal trainer and nutrition advisor, a lot of people ask me how they can substitute meat or cook without it.

and maybe meat eaters will always outnumber vegetarians, but that's in death. we will outlive you, so eat up.

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