Vegetarian/ Vegan Cooking

Vegan holiday cooking from Candle Cafe: celebratory menus and recipes from New York's premier plant-based restaurants by Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos, & Jorge Pineda ; photography by Jim Franco ; forewords by Alicia Silverstone and Laura and Woody Harrelson

Vegan holiday kitchen: more than 200 delicious, festive recipes for special occasions by Nava Atlas ; photographs by Susan Voisin

How to cook everything vegetarian: simple recipes for great food by Mark Bittman ; Illustrations by Alan Witschonke

For those who cannot cook well or do not enjoy it

Kids, earn your Chow Down badge this summer by checking out a cookbook from the children's nonfiction collection. Here are some fun titles to consider:

Terrific veggies on the side by Kari Cornell ; photographs by Brie Cohen

Cook it

Kids' baking: 60 delicious recipes for children to make by Sara Lewis

Let's cook with cheese!: delicious & fun cheese dishes kids can make by Nancy Tuminelly

Midwestern recipes by Mary Boone

The beginner's goodbye [large print] by Anne Tyler

Breakdown [large print] by Sara Paretsky

Joanne Fluke's Lake Eden cookbook: [large print] Hannah Swensen's recipes from the cookie jar by Joanne Fluke

At Bertram's hotel [large print]: a Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie

Line of fire by Stephen White

Veggie burgers every which way by Lukas Volger ; photographs by Christina Heaston

The get healthy go vegan cookbook by Neal Barnard and Robyn Webb

Chloe's kitchen: 125 easy, delicious recipes for making the food you love the vegan way by Chloe Coscarelli ; foreword by Neal D. Barnard

Raw extreme manifesto: change your body, change your mind, and change the world while spending almost nothing! by Fred Ho with Peter Lew

Raw food: a complete guide for every meal of the day by Erica Palmcrantz and Irmela Lilja ; photographs by Anna Hult ; translation by Alicia Rawls