Meera Sodha brings 120 plant-based recipes from across Asia to your weeknight table in East, a collection of vibrant, fuss-free dishes inspired by home cooks and gourmet chefs from Bangalore to Beijing.
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Vegetarian cooking here spans Asian weeknight dinners and Japanese Buddhist temple traditions to the vegetable-forward tables of Palestine and Turkey.
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Meera Sodha brings 120 plant-based recipes from across Asia to your weeknight table in East, a collection of vibrant, fuss-free dishes inspired by home cooks and gourmet chefs from Bangalore to Beijing.
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Meera Sodha's Fresh India strips Indian vegetable cooking down to what matters: 130 recipes that taste vibrant and come together fast.

Jenny Rosenstrach walks you through The Weekday Vegetarians with 100+ recipes proving that Monday through Friday, your best meals happen to be meatless.

Erin Gleeson's The Forest Feast Mediterranean serves up 100 vegetarian recipes that taste like a slow afternoon on the Mediterranean coast.

Kansha reveals how gratitude for nature's gifts becomes 100 vegan recipes rooted in Buddhist temple cooking, Japanese history, and Elizabeth Andoh's decades of culinary immersion.
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Family proves that vegetable-forward recipes can be so craveable and nourishing that nobody at the table misses the meat, with Hetty McKinnon and Luisa Brimble drawing on family stories and kitchen wisdom to build a repertoire of meals you'll cook again and again.

Sami Tamimi walks you through Boustany, where vegetables and memory become 100+ reasons to linger at the table.
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Meera Sodha's Dinner serves up 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes that turn the question 'What's for dinner?' into a delicious answer, from whole roast cauliflower pilaf to miso eggplant to bubble tea ice cream.
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Tahini makes everything taste like you meant to do that, which is precisely the gift Eden Grinshpan gives you in Tahini Baby.

Özlem Warren's Sebze opens the door to 85 Turkish vegetable recipes—from gözleme and börek to lesser-known regional treasures—that prove vegetables are the real stars of Turkish home cooking.

Updated August 2026
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