Hi, I’m Cat - Welcome to My Kitchen

My grandma Matilda immigrated from Lebanon in the early 1900s and in her kitchen I grew up eating traditional Lebanese cooking. Back in the day, circa 1988, when I became vegetarian there were no plant-based restaurants, no veggie burgers, and very few cookbooks, but in Matilda’s Kitchen much of the food was naturally vegetarian. This is where I learned to cook my first vegetarian and vegan meals.

Welcome to my kitchen! I have modeled it after Grandma’s, a place where you can find delicious, healthy, plant-based meals and where everyone is welcome. I hope you will pull up a chair and stay for a while.

Matilda’s kitchen was a place where everyone was welcome and everyone wanted to be. Walking into Grandma’s kitchen you were greeted by the most amazing smells and, no matter when you showed up or how many friends you brought, there was somehow always a feast laid out before you in minutes.