"Martha Rose Shulman's The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking is an accessible, delicious-recipe-packed teaching book designed to give home cooks a plan ("templates") and a language for cooking mouthwatering plant-based meals every day. What is a template? It's a generic recipe for a basic dish--a risotto, a frittata, a rice bowl, a pasta bowl, a soup base--into which you put any suitable combination of vegetables and herbs based on seasonality and...

Drawing on her newspaper column, the author explains how to stock up on healthy, seasonal ingredients and use them to create easy-to-prepare meals, with recipes in such categories as soups, salads, pizza, vegetables, rice, fish, and poultry.