Chickpea Pancake With Broccoli And Eggplant

The title of food writer Joe Yonan’s new cookbook seems to jump out like a scolding from your mum: Eat Your Vegetables.

Yet that’s not Yonan’s intent at all. Writing in the introduction, the Washington Post food editor explains that he wants readers to try the recipes because they sound good; he’s not proselytizing. Yonan, who describes himself as mostly vegetarian, has written a vegetarian book, but he describes it as a vegetable book. His message: Think about eating vegetables, don’t focus on avoiding meat.