Founder and executive chef of Cafe Paradiso and author
http://www.cafeparadiso.ieAmanda Cohen
Brilliantly uses graphic illustration to teach, tell stories and have a rant or two.
Deborah Madison
Inspirational reverence for her vegetable material and its potential.
The first vegetable cookbook (as distinct from vegetarian) I bought, and therefore the first to teach me to focus on the vegetable.
Colin Spencer
I borrowed this from a library and photocopied almost every page. The first book I found that took vegetarian food away from wholefoods and into the pleasure zone.
Sri Owen
Learning a half dozen recipes from this got me the gig of catering Cork's first gamelan performance.
Elizabeth Schneider
Comprehensive in name and in reality too!
Yotam Ottolenghi
Makes it look so easy to make delicious and beautiful food, the ultimate purpose of any cookbook.
Claudia Roden
Christian Puglisi
More than a cookbook (or less in fact) this is a fascinating attempt by a brilliant chef to explain himself.
Samuel Clark and Samantha Clark
A beautiful expression of a beautiful restaurant.