Many thanks to Amanda Waddell and Will Kiester at Fair Winds Press, for turning a dream into reality, while also offering their support and expertise any time we needed it.
Thank you, Karen Levy, for your patience and for the awesome editing job, and to Sylvia McArdle for the beautiful design of this book.
Celine and Joni would like to thank the testers who graciously offered their invaluable feedback and support: Karyn Casper, Jamie Coble, Lisa Coulson, Melissa Elliott, Kristi Garboushian, Amy Gedgaudas, Kat Hindmarsh, Ashley MacDonald, S.D. Mocquet-McDonald, Monique and Michel Narbel, Constanze Reichardt, Luciana Rushing, Amanda Somerville, Liz Wyman, Bahar Zaker, and Kat Zemmel.
Special thanks to Lauren Ulm, for her unwavering support from day one.
Celine would like to thank her husband for licking his plate clean and being an ever-enthusiastic taste-tester.
Thank you, Mamou et Papou, for never scoffing first at vegetarianism and then at veganism, for being inspired to embrace the lifestyle too, and for testing almost every single recipe to make sure the metric measurements worked well.
Thank you to Willow and Buffy, for showing support in your own way by never failing to hope some of the food would magically drop right in front of your kitty noses.
Last but definitely not least, many thanks to Joni, my awesome partner in crime, for making this cookbook-writing experience as enjoyable as they come.
Joni would like to thank her sisters Kristen, Bethany, and June. Ladies, your constant support, encouragement, and love, from nearby and afar, have been invaluable in helping me take the chance to follow my dreams.
Special thanks also to my husband, Dan, for sticking by my side in our tiny home, as my crazy kitchen antics take over the entire house, all while sharing a bed with all three of the mutts and the cat, because I simply won’t make them sleep on the floor.
Celine, I am grateful for this experience, for having you in my life, for your ever-watchful eye, and for your patience with my last-minute frenzies.