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Amanda Cohen Sample Recipes From “Dirt Candy” Cookbook

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, August 20th, 2012 in Authors, Books, Food & Drink, Recipes.

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Dirt Candy A Cookbook

Amanda Cohen‘s interview with the New York Daily News times perfectly with the release of her cookbook, Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant.

Cohen gave readers a preview of some of the recipes they’ll find in the cookbook bearing the same name as her New York vegetable restaurant like hush puppies with maple butter and kimchi doughnuts.

“I love cookbooks and have hundreds at home, but I wanted to make one that I would be so excited to buy, take home and read, and not just because it was from a certain restaurant,” Cohen said.

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“Dirt Candy” Amanda Cohen Talks Cookbook With New York Times

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 in Books, Chefs, Food & Drink.

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Dirt Candy A Cookbook

Amanda Cohen of NYC’s popular vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy sat down with the New York Times to discuss her upcoming cookbook with the same title as the restaurant.

Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant, due for release next week, is a combination of recipes, cool comics and the answers to some of your most burning restaurant questions like, “why a salad cost $14?”

The following are a few excerpts from her telephone interview.

Q: How did you arrive at the decision to do a cookbook this way, as a graphic novel?

A: I never really wanted to write a cookbook. I just felt like there are so many cookbooks out there and so many are done well. I wasn’t sure if I had something to add, and I didn’t want to do Vegetarian Cooking 101; that book was already out there. About a year into the restaurant, people started coming in and saying, “You should write a cookbook.” And I kept saying, “No, what we’re not ready.” And then finally, my husband and I were talking about ways to do it, because it was getting embarrassing, and he suggested we do it as a graphic novel. It was just this moment where I actually saw the cookbook, for the first time.

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