What Delia needs here isn't so much a cooking tutorial as an eating tutorial. You need a semi-evangelical vegetarian or vegan who will have Delia over a few times to eat a sampling of mild-tasting protein-oriented vegetarian foods, and get recipes and some instruction, if they're tricky, for the things she finds most palatable.
Unfortunately, the person I know who would TOTALLY do this lives in Boston.
Do you know Barth? Cooking classes for would-be vegetarian kids sounds like something the Wedge would do (or could consider doing). You could suggest it to him and also see if he knows any evangelical vegetarians.
I would actually think tofu -- plain, unflavored tofu -- would be a really good thing for Delia to experiment with, since she's a supertaster with texture issues. Unflavored tofu is almost tasteless. When I couldn't eat dairy, I actually made myself a pseudo-chocolate-pudding that used tofu, sugar, and chocolate -- this wouldn't be a good thing to eat daily as an entree because of the sugar content, but it does show how versatile the stuff is.
The problem with handing her some good cookbooks is that many vegetarian cookbooks are oriented towards providing food that is highly flavored and provides a variety of textures. What textures can she fairly consistently tolerate?
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Date: 2008-03-29 01:15 am (UTC)Unfortunately, the person I know who would TOTALLY do this lives in Boston.
Do you know Barth? Cooking classes for would-be vegetarian kids sounds like something the Wedge would do (or could consider doing). You could suggest it to him and also see if he knows any evangelical vegetarians.
I would actually think tofu -- plain, unflavored tofu -- would be a really good thing for Delia to experiment with, since she's a supertaster with texture issues. Unflavored tofu is almost tasteless. When I couldn't eat dairy, I actually made myself a pseudo-chocolate-pudding that used tofu, sugar, and chocolate -- this wouldn't be a good thing to eat daily as an entree because of the sugar content, but it does show how versatile the stuff is.
The problem with handing her some good cookbooks is that many vegetarian cookbooks are oriented towards providing food that is highly flavored and provides a variety of textures. What textures can she fairly consistently tolerate?