Dirt Candy

It’s an old refrain: Eat your vegetables! But Amanda Cohen, pioneering chef at New York City’s Dirt Candy, brings a fresh method of persuasion to the table: cartoons. Cohen delivers great nourishing vegetarian recipes in "Dirt Candy: A Cookbook" — roasted squash salad with pepita clusters, asparagus paella, pea soup with pickled potatoes — but she does so within a graphic novel-style framework that makes the experience of flipping through its pages all the more entertaining. Laughter is healing.