A Decadent Vegetable Recipe For A Horrible, Cold January Day

Maya Kosoff
4 min readJan 21, 2022

As an omnivore I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I do find it grating when recipes or restaurants try calling various vegetables prepared in a certain way a “steak.” I imagine this rings true for a section of non-meat eaters too, who perhaps don’t aspire to eat a food that’s being marketed to them a steak, which, again, would be a food they don’t eat. A slab of cauliflower roasted in the oven until it’s gorgeously browned and tender is delicious, but a steak it is not. Same for a portobello mushroom, or half of a butternut squash (I’m a…

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Maya Kosoff

i’m a freelance writer and editor. you can also read me in places like the new york times and vanity fair.