Moosewood Cookbook

Moosewood Cookbook is a recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, New York. This cookbook is considered by many as one of the most significant modern vegetarian cookbooks. The original edition, published in 1978 by the then-fledgeling Ten Speed Press in California, was hand-lettered and imaginitively illustrated by Katzen and featured a number of the recipes favored by the restaurant at the time. The book came out shortly after Katzen left the collective, and there are rumors of some hard feelings between Katzen and the Collective.

Katzen later rewrote the book with leaner recipes in a version published in 1992, long after her original association with the Collective had lapsed, though she kept the title and the hand-lettered style; the later Collective went on to publish its own unrelated series of books. A sequel of sorts also exists, called The Enchanted Broccoli Forest; this book expands on topics such as baking that the Moosewood book does not cover in depth, and is done in the same hand-lettered style as the original.

The Moosewood Cookbook is not considered particularly vegan-friendly—Moosewood did not set out originally to be a vegetarian restaurant, and as a result significant amounts of cheese and other dairy products are used in its recipes. In some countercultural circles, however, it has a status roughly equivalent to The Joy of Cooking as a go-to recipe book. It has been criticized for the fact that a lot of its recipes (in the first edition) are high-fat as opposed to the healthier home fare of the book's second edition.