I like food. I like making it, I like the history attached to it, I like serving it to friends. Some corners of EA have an odd attachment to thinking of food purely as fuel, and I think this is bad for vibes but a little bit bad in general as many people like food and if you make delicious vegetarian food your example might be more persuasive to them than if you drink a rebranded SlimFast for dinner, not that there's anything wrong with that.
So for the sake of other EAs that like food: What are your favourite cookbooks or recipes? For fairly obvious reasons, I'm most interested in vegan, vegetarian, or low-meat recipes.
I'll go first: I think the best way to get tasty no or low-meat food is to find books or recipes from food cultures that have a deep tradition of such food. My biggest wins have been mining recipes from Chinese (Fuchsia Dunlop writes good recipe books here), Indian, or Jewish ("dairy" recipes) cuisine. I also like the Ottolenghi books.
I must offer my strongest possible recommendation for Speedy BOSH! - it has genuinely changed my relationship with food. None of the recipes I have tried are bad, some are fairly average but many are truly glorious. Obviously, as an EA I have been keeping notes on each dish I try from it in Google Doc and I'd be happy to suggest my favourites to anyone who buys/has the book.
Agree! The recipes I've made from them have been consistently very good.