Despite honors from Julia Childs and James Beard this book is lacking imagination and any commitment to vegetarian cooking. Everything tastes better with cheese (eggs and butter). Try making something delicious without it! Her comments on tofu and tempeh revealed that this author has little or no exposure to soy products and their preparation. Her vegan recipes were frighteningly colorless reenforcing the notion that vegetarian cooking is bland, flavorless and strange. Why not put a little cornmeal on that tempeh before frying it, Carroll? Her adaptations of standard college veggie cuisine like hummus and baba ganouji were flat and lacked any real effort to make them her own. All in all this author wracked her brain to come up with 1001 recipes and it shows!