I love this book and wish Cook's Illustrated would come out with some sort of truly vegetarian cookbook. ( )

I really like this book. If you're a fan of the Cook's Illustrated process of exhaustive testing and reduction of a recipe to its basic elements, and a fan of vegetables, you'll be in heaven.

It covers 53 different vegetables, and is organized by vegetable, not by recipe type. So you look up the veggie you are interested in and find general preparation and cooking instructions, followed by a 'master recipe' and several variations.

This organization rewards discovery and experimentation - I intend to work my way through it systematically. ( )