Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes, author Rynn Berry
More than just a cookbook author, Rynn Berry is a literary detective and scholar adventurer. He is the first to have found and published the vegetable recipes favored by Leonardo da Vinci, which he translated from medieval Latin into English. He is also the first to have discovered vegetarian recipes for Louisa May Alcott's father, Bronson Alcott, which he found written in his wife Abigail's hand-written recipe book. Berry has worked similar feats of research for such vegetarian immortals as Pythagoras, Gautama the Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Jesus Christ, Plutarch, Percy Shelley, Tolstoy, Annie Besant, Gandhi, and George Bernard Shaw. He has also collected recipes from such contemporary vegetarians as Paul and Linda McCartney, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Swami Prabhupada. Recipes were culled from cookbooks left behind or from the notes of family members and housekeepers. Other recipes were gleaned or carefully recreated from historical accounts.
"Berry writes beautifully, with a genuine gustatory relish for words and savory asides. The recipes are delightful...many researched and translated for the first time."
— The Boston Book Review
Famous Vegetarian's more than 70 recipes include soups, grains and pastas, soyfood entrees, vegetable entrees (nearly two dozen), salads and sandwiches, breads and desserts.