Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by NPR The Los Angeles Times Epicurious Vice Food Network Good Housekeeping and more and a Best Cookbook of Fall 2023 by Bon Appetit Food & Wine Eater The Strategist and more. From the bestselling author of The Flavor Equation and Season and winner of the 2023 IACP Trailblazer Award: A fascinating exploration of the unique wonders of more than fifty vegetables through captivating research stunning photography and technique-focused recipes. Groundbreaking inspiring delicious: Nik Sharma s Veg-Table is everything I d hoped for and more! --Nigella Lawson author of Cook Eat Repeat 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. FOLLOW-UP TO TWO CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOKS: Season was a finalist for a James Beard Award and an IACP award. It was on the most prominent cookbook best-of lists including the New York Times Best Cookbooks NPR s Favorite Cookbooks and Bon Appetit s Best Cookbooks gift guide; it was also an Amazon Book of the Month. The Flavor Equation was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by the New York Times Eater Epicurious Food & Wine Forbes Saveur Serious Eats Smithsonian magazine the San Francisco Chronicle the Los Angeles Times the Boston Globe the Chicago Tribune CNN Travel The Kitchn Chowhound NPR The Art of Eating 2021 longlist and many more; plus it garnered international media attention including from the Financial Times the Globe and Mail The Telegraph The Guardian The Independent The Times (U.K.) Delicious Magazine (U.K.) The