In 2017
Washington Post Food Editor
Joe Yonan listed it as one of three must-have classic vegetarian cookbooks. In a review of
Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone,
Gourmet magazine wrote "Before you even read a word, the clean type, elegant, well-organized layout, and helpful illustrations reassure you that you won't be pulling your hair out trying to follow a recipe. And then Madison's warm, knowledgeable prose pulls you in." and
The New Yorker "found Madison to be a charming and non-threatening
psychopomp into the realm of what I imagined to be the half-dead, the eaters of what she frequently calls “plant food,” which, to me, sounded like “fish food.”"
Publishers Weekly gave a
starred review writing "Many have tried to create a reliable, encyclopedic vegetarian cookbook, but few have succeeded. Madison (The Greens Cookbook; The Savory Way) comes through with a weighty volume.." and called it an "incredibly complete and triumphant effort." ==Awards==