The Moosewood Restaurant New Classics

This month we're reading and cooking from The Moosewood Restaurant New Classics by The Moosewood Collective. We first heard of the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, via the blog world. Since August we've occasionally checked out copies of their books at our local library. So, they haven't been on our radar all that long, but seeing that soon after we discovered them, we were asked to write on this very food blog, we thought it only best, to feature one of their books.

We are vegetarian (K)/pescetarian (D), as is this book, as is their restaurant. However, just as we've substituted tofu for meat while using books in past months on this blog, we hope you'll be able to substitute meat for tofu where you see fit.

The Moosewood Restaurant is based on whole grains, organic produce where possible and no processed products. This sounds like a modern trendy food diet, but the Moosewood Restaurant has been open with this platform since 1973.

The most famous of the original members is Mollie Katzen. She started Moosewood with her brothers and has gone on to be one of the best selling cook book authors of all time.

Moosewood operates as a collective of individuals working together. All of their cookbooks are written and assembled by a team of Moosewood staff. You will not find an author or a cook's name listed in this book beyond the list of members in the opening pages. All success and failure is a team effort at Moosewood.

We hope you enjoy the book and the meals that come from it.

Eat Well.

Kimberly and David