Vegetarian Star

Amanda Cohen has a brand new cookbook out with more than just recipes. There are also illustrations, comics and musings about the restaurant industry.

According to the owner and chef at NYC’s vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy, such a diverse selection of material is needed to make a cookbook more valuable these days as the Internet has given them some competition.

“For me, the internet has changed the whole recipe delivery system,” Cohen told Blisstree. “When I’m looking for versions of a recipe I go online first, not to my bookshelf. A cookbook can’t just list a bunch of recipes and have that be enough anymore. Maybe as an artifact, but it’s not a useful book.”

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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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Amanda Cohen‘s cookbook, Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant, is set for release in August.

The book combines vegetable-based recipes with comics on chefs, cooking and cuisine. Some of those comics contained in the owner of New York’s esteemed vegetable restaurant and Iron Chef competitor’s book were previewed in 2010, and now, a few more sneak peaks are available from Eater.

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Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy

Amanda Cohen, chef and owner of Dirt Candy, a New York City award winning vegetable restaurant, is working on a cookbook.

The cookbook is expected to be published in 2012 by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group.

For the book, Cohen, who appeared on an episode of Iron Chef America, collaborated with Ryan Dunlavey, artist behind comic book “Action Philosophers,”  for some comic book-like illustrations of cooking, such as with this recipe.

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