This is not a soapbox, as much as it might be mistaken it for one, and so the function of this collection is not to rail against the meat industrial complex or the ways that factory farming harms animals, people, and the planet, or to shill plant-based wellness as a euphemism for moral superiority, or to find solidarity with others who shudder when they recall biting into a piece of unanticipated gristle. No, this is merely a collection of vegetarian cookbooks because vegetables are delicious. The fact that vegetarian living, cooking, and eating is environmentally, ethically, and medically better for us as individuals and a society is merely a side benefit.