I’ve been thinking about my life a few years ago, when the worries we’re fewer and the tofu was plentiful. After eating at a slew of wonderful vegetable-centric restaurants in New York City recently, a wave a nostalgia for the vegetarian years of my life has risen to the surface. I’m thinking about the cookbooks that inspired me but also the recipes and meals I still make even though I now eat meat. Some food and flavors stick with you.
I was a vegetarian during the time when my interest in food was really taking shape. It’s foundational to how I feel about food, but also to how I cook. And while meat finds its way into my cooking with regularity, these are the vegetarian meals that have remained.
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