Moosewood Cookbook Original Edition

The Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to cook simple, healthy, and seasonal food. A classic listed as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time by the New York Times, this 40th anniversary edition of Mollie Katzen’s seminal book will be a treasured addition to the cookbook libraries of fans young and old.

In 1974, Mollie Katzen hand-wrote, illustrated, and locally published a spiral-bound notebook of recipes for vegetarian dishes inspired by those she and fellow cooks served at their small restaurant co-op in Ithaca, NY. Several iterations and millions of copies later, the Moosewood Cookbook has become one of the most influential and beloved cookbooks of all timeb — listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbooks in history, inducted into the James Beard Award Cookbook Hall of Fame, and coined a Cookbook Classic by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Mollie’s Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to fall in love with plant-based home cooking, and, on the fortieth anniversary of that initial booklet, continues to be a seminal, timely, and wholly personal work. With a new introduction by Mollie, this commemorative edition will be a cornerstone for any cookbook collection that long-time fans and those just discovering Moosewood will treasure.

While best-selling author, public speaker, and food/nutrition/cultural history scholar MOLLIE KATZEN is best known as the creator of the vegetarian classic, Moosewood Cookbook, her children’s cookbooks, Pretend Soup, Honest Pretzels, and Salad People have become standard fare in homes and classrooms across the country. Mollie teaches healthful cooking and eating to all age groups, from preschools in her home-base of Berkeley, California, to Harvard University, where she is a consultant and co-creator of their new, groundbreaking Food Literacy Initiative.