Article: The vegetable's biggest fan: Mollie Katzen. (author of 'Moosewood Cookbook')(includes information sources, recipe and related article on vegetarians)

What do cookbook authors like best about their jobs, next to cooking and eating, that is? The Frugal Gourmet (also known as Jeff Smith) might tell you it's the stories from the countries where his recipes originate. For Julia Child, it's probably a rich French sauce. But Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook and one of the pioneers of the vegetarian cooking movement, without a doubt, never met a vegetable she didn't like.

Katzen will never forget her first foray into fresh vegetables.

"I hadn't tasted a fresh green vegetable until the age of 12," she writes in the prologue of her newly revised Moosewood Cookbook, when I was invited to dinner at ...

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