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| Author | Anna Thomas |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Vegetarian cooking |
| Genre | Cookbook |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Followed by | The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two (1978), The New Vegetarian Epicure (1996) |
The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) is avegetarian cookbook byAnna Thomas, which was a highly influential vegetarian cookbook.[1]
Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbookThe Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on thenatural foods movement within theAmerican counterculture.[2][3] As noted inThe Roanoke Times, "for many of the young people turning to vegetarianism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Anna Thomas was the guru in their kitchens."[4] Thomas later said that while she was a student at UCLA, she "wasn't eating much meat," and thus was focusing on vegetarian cooking. However, she states that there "weren't any good vegetarian cookbooks then. So I was just making things up in 1968 and '69, and somebody said, `Gee, Anna, you're such a good cook, you should write a cookbook.' And when you are 19 or 20 you say, `Yeah, OK, I think I will,' and then you do."[5] The success of the book was due to the fact that it turned away from the ascetic approach found in American vegetarian cookbooks,[5] and its ability to introduce pleasure to American vegetarian meals.[6][7]
Thomas published a sequel calledThe Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two in 1978. The update of the original,The New Vegetarian Epicure, was published in 1996.[8]
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