Youthful, exciting, and tickling the palate with flavor, West Coast vegetarian chef Ken Charney offers his lively take on vegetables, tofu, beans, and grains with over 200 recipes in The Bold Vegetarian Chef. Along with vibrantly seasoned, tempting food, Charney explains clearly how to work with key ingredients in the vegetarian kitchen, offering clear instructions and creative ways with soy, tempeh, and seitan, the wheat "meat." He also describes how to buy, store, and use any number of other vegetarian products. The Bold Vegetarian Chef presents a contemporary, upbeat take that makes vegetarian cooking as natural and easy as lifting a fork.

Ken Charney (Seattle, WA) works for PCC Natural Markets, the largest chain of natural food cooperatives in the country. The author of numerous articles on vegetarian and soy cooking, he has appeared on local television in the Seattle area.