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JEREMY FOX, the chef of Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, California, took seven years to complete his first cookbook, On Vegetables, out this month. Sitting in the restaurant’s dining room, Fox explains that he signed the contract with his publisher, Phaidon, in 2010, just after leaving Napa’s Ubuntu, where he made his name. Two years earlier, the New York Times had called Ubuntu, with its vegetarian tasting menu and adjacent yoga studio, one of the best new restaurants in America; Food & Wine named Fox one of its best new…