1,000 Vegetarian Recipes

Lacto-Ovo: People in this category do not eat meat, but do eat eggs and dairy products.

Pesco-Lacto-Ovo: Technically not vegetarians, they do not eat meat, but do eat fish, eggs, and dairy products.

A vegetarian, by definition, is a person who does not eat the flesh of anything that was previously living.

To fulfill this objective I've used fat, sugar, and/or salt in recipes that truly need them, but I've tried to use the minimum amount necessary to achieve the best flavor and texture.

1,000 Really Great-Tasting Vegetarian Recipes

But I dug in and started cooking. I'd cook anything and everything, and every possible variation to anything and everything, because, after all, I had a thousand recipes to create.

Invariably I'd wake up saying, "One thousand ways?!" You don't have to be Freud to figure out this was a daunting project.

since I'd go to sleep and dream about signing contracts to write books with titles like 1,000 Ways to Soft Skin, 1,000 Ways to Clean Pots, and 1,000 Ways to Knit Socks

To Justin Schwartz and Macmillan Publishing USA, who had faith in my abilities to accomplish this project