American Vegetarian Recipes

We take a little special pride in this section; this is the food we grew up with. We're trying to do our part to help teach the rest of the world that Americans eat something other than hamburgers, pizza, and fried chicken; that American cuisine is a rich and varied tapestry of flavors, influenced by cuisines and cultures from around the world - a real culinary "melting pot".

Compiling, finding, and cooking traditional American vegetarian recipes can be a difficult task. Most Americans are, and always have been, staunch carnivores, usually relegating meatless dishes to the status of "side dish", if they'll entertain them at all. It's even pretty hard to find a traditional vegetable dish in the South that hasn't had a hamhock or some bacon grease added for flavoring. As times and attitudes change, more and more Americans are choosing to live a vegetarian lifestyle - which creates a problem. How do we recreate those warm, fuzzy, comfort-food memories that we grew up with and celebrate our rich culinary history without eating meat? We've found it to be quite a challenge to re-create the simple, "stick to your ribs"-style cuisine that America is known for (and we remember so fondly). With a little bit of experimentation, we continue to find and create meatless versions of these recipes that are quite satisfying.

The extraordinary variety of America's recipes owes itself not only to the amazing breadth of ingredients and agricultural climates the country possesses, but also to the perpetual blending of cultures and ethnicities that happens nowhere else like it does here in America. America's most interesting and intricate regional cuisines were born in multicultural, historic port cities like Charleston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco - places where culinary traditions as disparate as Chinese, Native American, Spanish, and West African all found a new home and slowly fused to create uniquely American dishes.

We've done the best we can to replicate the feeling, spirit, and flavor of the dishes we grew up loving, like buttermilk fried chicken or Louisiana gumbo, through the use of vegetarian ingredients, while still employing the same tried and true cooking techniques that form the basis of these quintessential American recipes.

Check out the menu on your right for our list of American vegetarian recipes!

American Regional Recipes

Cajun/Creole (3)
The Midwest (1)
The Northeast (2)
The South (4)
The Southwest (4)