How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman

              The cookbook How to Cook Everything Vegetarian is a book that I love and use often. This book is a book that I use often for recipes and one that I think is very helpful to people learning to cook. It has a beautiful first chapter on what your kitchen should be, with all the tools, food, techniques, and other helpful things for beginner cooks. Mark Bittman, the author, also provides substitutes for vegan cooking and food safety tips. It is wonderfully thought out, broken down into chapters for each kind of food that people can quickly look through to find what they need, including some bonus chapters in the back of the book. Each recipe that Bittman provides has a short explanation of the recipe and how the recipe works, along with some substitutions. It also provides a small guide for vegan, fast, vegan optional, and recipes you can make ahead. The cookbook focuses on vegetarian and vegan cooking and is one of the best cookbooks I have seen. Mark Bittman does have other books focusing on different forms of food, and it is listed in the front of the book if vegetarianism isn’t your style but you are still interested in learning how to cook.