001041: No Jacket as Issued. "Not so very long ago, vegetables were, on the American table at least, pretty much an afterthought. Often they were overcooked. Most were certainly not painstakingly prepared. Many were eaten out of a sense of duty ... Especially by children and adult males. But that's all changed. These days, some of the very best cooking in America focuses on vegetables. Now we treat them with the same care that we use in preparing all our foods and have become truly imaginative in combining them with other ingredients. ": 8.25 x 10.25 in.: 284 pages