Cooking For You

Here’s a holiday cooking scenario that I just know you’ve experienced before: You open your favorite cookbook and flip through your favorite dog-eared, food-stained recipes—the ones that your mom and grandmother cooked before you; recipes so familiar you can practically smell the flavors emanating from the pages. So you plan out your Thanksgiving menu to the very last detail, buy all the ingredients and, the night before, start prepping your feast—that is, until the phone rings, and it’s your 14-year-old niece telling you that she’s become a vegan and will not be eating meat or dairy. Can...