To hundreds of thousands, Laurel Robertson has become a guiding spirit whose kitchen symbolizes whole-food cookery at its best. She is the author of Laurel’s Kitchen, a vegetarian cookbook first published in 1976 that was a major contributor to the increasing awareness of vegetarian eating in the United States. With her co-contributors, including Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey, and Brian Ruppenthal, she has written several more Laurel’s Kitchen books, including The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book, Laurel’s Kitchen Recipes, and Laurel’s Kitchen Caring.