Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables

The organizational apparatus (and underlying philosophy around food and cooking) of this book is excellent.

I love the ingredient-focused recipes that encourage the reader to play with seasoning profiles and learn the characteristics of various cooking methods in a way that will stick with them.

This is much more a book of methods than a true cookbook, and yet 75%+ of the specific variations Abra enumerates look great.

I love a book that encourages play, and her use of “glug” as a unit of measure for oil really says it all, imo.