Vegetarian Star

We told you how Rachael Ray’s new Big Orange Book cookbook is featuring an entire chapter of vegetarian options. In an interview with Canton Rep, Rachael explains more about how requests from her fans on the road led her to expand the types of recipes offered:

“With every book I try and come up with a theme that’s a new way of looking at our recipes and what we do. I like to think outside the box. The book is based largely on our 30-minute meals but it also came from what people requested, kosher food, veggie meals that are hearty. Lots of families have one vegetarian with one or more meat-eater.”

Absolutely! Many people who start off vegetarian do so in their teens, still living at home with meat eating parents and brothers and sisters. While most evenings weren’t difficult to throw together spaghetti or a bean burrito, holidays might have presented a problem.

Although mom and dad may have been smart enough to figure you weren’t touching turkey, they may not have understood why you wouldn’t touch the stuffing either (as it contained chicken broth for seasoning).

It’s time for heartfelt confessions. Do any of you have horror stories growing up being the only vegetarian out of several meat eaters? Are you still the only non-fish in the sea, having to make your separate food when family is over or even worse, having to make their meat food because you’re in the minority?

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