How to Make Better Beef Stew — With Less Meat

Use this template and riff as you’d like

Mark Bittman
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3 min readNov 5, 2020

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Beef stew with less meat
Photo: Mark Bittman

Our team spent weeks — years, really — developing “less-meatarian” recipes, classics that de-emphasized meat and rely preeminently on vegetables, grains, and legumes. Both the Food Matters and VB6 cookbooks feature those kinds of recipes, and the style has mightily influenced our cooking for more than 10 years now.

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Mark Bittman
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Has published 30 books, including How to Cook Everything and VB6: The Case for Part-Time Veganism. Newsletter at markbittman.com.