“You got meat in my vegetarian cookbook!” “You got vegetarianism in my diet!”

You know how some omni cookbooks at least nod in the vegetarian or vegan direction by listing the substitutions necessary to take the kill out of cooking? Today, I am the spotter of the anti-trend. I don’t read a lot of cookbooks, but this may be a first: The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook is a vegetarian cookbook, except for one little detail: “There also are suggested meat substitutions for non-vegetarians (Ayurveda is not exclusively vegetarian, although this book is).” Now, one could look at it as a loss of ground, with meat starting to seep into the veggie stock, as it were, or you could write it off as a basic attempt to increase a book’s audience, but I think there’s an alternate vision that could work here – what if this is the future, where healthy vegetarian meals take center stage and meat eating is destined to be marginalized like it’s the smoking section in the cookbooks of tomorrow? Thoughts? Link.