The first part is the story of how the authors came to be vegetarian, and how their families came along for the ride. They discuss the need for a vegetarian diet personally, and globally. Removing meat from the diet helps both the person and the people, the people and the planet. The first chapter is bread. They discuss in detail how quick breads work, how much baking powder you should use, and why.
Dinner is the spiritual center of the day, when the family comes together.
There is a separate section for each part of dinner. Salad can be leaf salads, rice salads, potato salads, and various dressings, from chutneys to cheeses to curries. Soup can be minestrone, or black bean soup, or tomato soup, corn chowder or vegetable gumbo. I found the tomato soup to be a bit bland but certainly good. One of the more decadent is chard and cheese pie, with its eggs and cottage cheese.