Author Mark Bittman has a new book out, How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, sort of a sequel ot his hit How To Cook Everything (or, more accurately, the next book in the series), and in this interview with Publisher's Weekly, he says that even though he eats meat, he finds himself eating less these days, and thinks more and more people will eat this way.
I could see five or six years ago that vegetarian cooking would be increasingly important because of an interesting confluence of health and ethical issues. I figured it was going to accelerate, but what I didn't know was how fast it would happen. I also didn't know how important it would be for me personally. I still consider myself an omnivore, but when I look at what I cook for myself, I hardly use meat and fish anymore. And with all the environmental and agricultural changes, meat is going to be scarcer; there's already less fish. So I think more people are going to eat this way in the future.
How To Cook Everything Vegetarian is out now, and he's revising his How To Cook Everything for a future edition.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-22-2007 @ 3:08PM
Maggie said...
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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10-22-2007 @ 7:36PM
ShortWoman said...
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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10-23-2007 @ 10:39AM
jsmylie said...
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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10-23-2007 @ 3:24PM
wynk said...
Mark Bittman has obviously never had my husband's beef brisket.
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10-23-2007 @ 4:56PM
Denise Patterson-Monroe said...
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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11-28-2007 @ 6:21AM
David C said...
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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12-12-2007 @ 3:57PM
petergabriel said...
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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