Includes index

Introduction-- What's a vegetable -- In the kitchen -- How to use this book -- The vegetable pantry -- Onions, shallots, scallions, leeks, garlic + chives -- Yams -- Bamboo + corn -- Asparagus -- Beets, chard + spinach -- Artichokes, sunchokes, endive, escarole, radicchio + lettuce -- Sweet potatoes -- Cabbage, bok choy, broccoli, brussels sprouts, collards, cauliflower, romanesco, radishes, arugula, kale, mustard greens + watercress -- Cucumber, pumpkin, squash + chayote -- Cassava -- Chickpeas, soybeans, lentils, peas, beans + jicama -- Okra -- Bell pepper, eggplant, potato, tomato + tomatillo -- Carrots, celery, fennel + parsnips -- Nopalitos -- Mixtape

"Nik Sharma, blogger at A Brown Table, Serious Eats columnist, and bestselling cookbook author, brings us his most cookable collection of recipes yet in Veg-table. Here is a technique-focused repertoire for weeknight mains for cooks of all skill levels looking to add more delicious and satisfying vegetable dishes to their diet. Combining the scientific underpinnings of The Flavor Equation with the inviting and personal recipes of Season, this book features more than fifty vegetables, revealing their origins, biology, and unique characteristics. Vegetable-focused recipes are organized into chapters by plant family, with storage, buying, and cooking methods for all. The result is a recipe collection of big flavors and techniques that are tried, true, and perfected by rigorous testing and a deep scientific lens. Included here are Sharma's first-ever pasta recipes published in a cookbook: Pasta with Broccoli Miso Sauce, Shallot and Spicy Mushroom Pasta, and more. And vegetable-focused doesn't mean strictly vegetarian; bring plants and animal protein together with delicious recipes like Chicken Katsu with Poppy Seed Coleslaw and Crispy Salmon with Green Curry Spinach. A wide variety of hot and cold soups, salads, sides, sauces, and rice-, egg-, and bean-based dishes round out this collection. Featuring more than 100 of Sharma's gorgeous and evocative photographs, as well as instructive illustrations, this cookbook perfectly balances beauty, intellect, and delicious, achievable recipes"--