The best-selling guide to preparing delicious vegetarian recipes on the grill is back, with 50 brand new recipes and the very latest in modern grilling trends. This update to Andrea Chesman's classic book presents 250 healthful, flavorful recipes for vegetarians and grill aficionados alike. It's filled with an incredible variety of fast and easy vegetarian dishes ideal for gas grills, charcoal grills--even an open campfire grill--including appetizers and soups, fresh salads, sandwiches and burgers, tasty wraps, pizza and flatbreads, flame-kissed pasta, juicy kabobs, and grilled desserts. Favorites include Brie, Cranberry, and Pistachio Quesadillas; Grilled Portobello Salad with Roquefort Dressing; Lentil-Stuffed Pita Pockets with Grilled Onions; Vegetarian Fajitas with Chipotle Sour Cream; White Pizza with Leeks and Peppers; Tandoori-Style Vegetable Kabobs; and Grilled Nectarines with Mascarpone Cream. The expanded introductory chapter features helpful information on current equipment options such as pellet grills, grill pans, built-in grills, and indoor grilling machines, making it easy to enjoy mouth-watering grilled vegetables and vegetarian meals with flavor you can only get from the grill!
Andrea Chesman is a food writer and the author of many cookbooks, including The New Vegetarian Grill (Harvard Common Press, 2008) and Serving Up the Harvest (Storey Publishing, 2007). Her book, The Vegetarian Grill (Harvard Common Press, 1998) was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award and received a 1999 National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. She is also the author of The Roasted Vegetable (Harvard Common Press, 2002) and 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans and Grains (Plume-Penguin, 1998), Summer in a Jar (Williamson Publishing, 1985), and Pickles and Relishes (Garden Way Publishing, 1983), Mom's Best One-Dish Suppers (Storey Publishing, 2005), Mom's Best Crowd-Pleasers (Storey Publishing, 2006) and co-author of Mom's Best Desserts (Storey Books, 2002) and The Classic Zucchini Cookbook (Storey Books, 2002). She was editor of Yankee Magazine Church Supper and Potluck Cookbook (Villard, 1996) and editor of and contributor to the Family Circle Good Cook's Book (Simon & Schuster, 1993). She has also edited numerous gardening books, including The Big Book of Gardening Skills (Storey Communications, 1993). Her work has appeared in Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, The New York Times, Natural Health, and several other magazines and newspapers. She was a contributing editor for Vermont Life for 12 years and is currently contributing editor for Edible Green Mountains.
Andrea Chesman lives in an historic farmhouse in Ripton, Vermont, where the poet Robert Frost boarded. She lives with her husband and two sons. When she is not at work on a writing project, she edits and indexes cookbooks for numerous publishers.
