The cooking show, which is produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting, has 13 more episodes on the way. In the first season, host Laura Theodore showed that plant-based cooking could be delicious and fun.

Her latest cookbook, Jazzy Vegetarian, features all of the recipes in her new television series. Publishers will release the cookbook in fall of 2011 to coincide with the release of the television ...

It metamorphosed itself over the span of 30 years. Grandma, who's no longer with us, wrote me that recipe -- it was regular lasagna, and I made it the way she made it.

On "Jazzy Vegetarian,'' Theodore may preach the vegan gospel, but doesn't overdo it. Her goal: to get viewers to make one plant-based meal a week, and take it from there.

Then [my husband] Daniel and I decided to do a detox with a group of friends a couple years ago. For 20 days we had no coffee, no alcohol, no meat, no poultry, no fish, no gluten.