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.
My favourite cookbook right now is The Korean Vegan. Magical, delicious flavour combinations. The bulgogi blew my mind. The cookbook also sets you up to have a fridge full of sauces and banchan to dress up any weekday rice + protein combination into a delicious meal.
This West-African-inspired peanut soup from Cookie and Kate is what I pull out whenever I want to make something impressively delicious, but also fast and low-effort.
I found I Can Cook Vegan by Isa Chanda Moskovitz to be somewhat hit and miss, but the hits (buffalo cauliflower salad, sloppy shiitakes, chickpea tuna melt, maple-mustard brussel sprouts) were really solid. I recommend this over her earlier cookbooks; she has really reined in her desire to have 30-ingredient recipes that take over an hour to prepare.
The Moosewood Cookbook is a classic for a reason, but you gotta get a version released either before or after the 1990s low-fat fad. We like oil and salt! We like calories! Put the fat in!!