Catherine Mason
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bold, sassy and sophisticated cooking – Nigel Slater

VEG is Catherine Mason's first cookery book – a sparkling collection of over 140 seasonal vegetarian recipes, with the emphasis on fresh, organic ingredients prepared in a relaxed, unfussy style. Full of ideas for everything from quick snacks to multi-course dinners, it is both an inspirational and a practical working cookbook, which will appeal both to confirmed vegetarians and to people seeking to reduce their meat consumption and looking for interesting alternatives.

VEG was published in May 2001 by Pauntley Press, the publishing imprint of Ford & Mason Ltd.

Catherine's second cookery book, Vegetable Heaven was published in hardback by Pauntley Press in August 2002, and has been republished as a paperback by Grub Street Publishing in June 2006.

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Alternatively you can buy both titles from our Pauntley Press - Amazon.co.uk store.

News Catherine has launched her new celebration cakes business - catherine-mason-cakes.co.uk (January 2010)

Extracts from reviews

VEG had many, many excellent reviews in the press when it came out. Here are just a few of them, starting with Nigel Slater's mention in his recommendations for Christmas Books 2001:

`With so many cookery books nudging £30 it is heartening to find one for £12.99 that is chock-full of great recipes. Catherine Mason's cooking is in the style of those doyennes of the Californian vegetarian movement - Deborah Madison and Annie Somerville. In other words this is sassy, bold, sophisticated cooking.'

- Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly,
December 2001

`Written in a style that makes you believe that the author is there talking to you as you cook'

- Brian Longstaff, The Vegetarian, Autumn 2001

`At £12.99, it seems a bargain, because there are lots of good ideas here. The writing style and look of the book is also refreshingly straightforward.'

- Lindsey Bareham, London Evening Standard

`Veg ... explores more interesting and mouth-watering variations of fare for vegetarians and for those meat-eaters among us who like to take a break every now and then.'

- Rhodri Owen, Western Mail