Bring Salad to the BBQ
Vegan cookbook legend Terry Hope Romero shares her secrets to ensuring everyone at the party actually wants “the vegan option”
When Terry Hope Romero brings a salad to a party, she isn’t just trying to please the diet crowd. Her salads are full meals, chock full of seasonal veggies and fruits, nuts, croutons, homemade veggie bacon, and maybe some grilled tofu for good measure. It’s a centerpiece, not a side.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows her or her work. If you don’t, Romero has been an innovator in the vegan scene for well over a decade, having co-authored a number of cookbooks with author and chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz, including the bestseller Veganomicon, as well as several of her own books. Her style has always been punk veganism, focused on the political action of abstaining from animal products with a primary focus on making it tasty, not just low-cal.
So her salads are decidedly not depressing. She’s just released Show Up For Salad, the second of her cookbooks to be focused on salad, after Salad Samurai. When asked what she would serve at a summer cookout, she made a case for the food in which she’s well-practiced.
“I personally want to bring a big, huge salad. I prefer greens, I prefer things that are light and…
