Vegetarian Books

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"The Vegan Cookbook" sets a new standard for all other vegan cookbooks to come. It is definitely the BEST vegan cookbook I've seen yet. Its beautiful full-color photographs on every page, easy to follow directions, and intriguing recipes are the standards every vegan cookbook should follow. "The Vegan Cookbook" is so good that I may have to bid farewell to all the great vegan restaurants in New York City. A perfect gift for yourself, family, and friends. Indeed, a must-have!

The Vegan Microwave Cookbook is a compilation of delicious vegetarian recipes that take full advantage of the meal preparation time-saving qualities of the family microwave oven. Enhanced with helpful advice such as: "Converting Traditional Recipes to the Microwave"; "If You Can Boil Water, You Can Cook with a Microwave"; Microwave Baking and Desserts; "Curries and Casseroles"; "Microwave Breakfasts"; as well as "Suggestions and Recipes for Holidays, Parties, and Entertaining", Vegan Microwave Cookbook is thoroughly "user friendly". There's even a section on what to do with leftovers! With recipes ranging from Graham Cracker Molasses Bread; Vegan Kishka; Soy Sauce Broccoli with Garlic and Hazelnuts; and Green Steamed Kohlrabi; to Creamy Pumpkin Soup; Moscow Tea; Double Stuffed Green and Purple Potatoes; and Passover Toffee, the Vegan Microwave Cookbook will make a welcome and appreciated addition to any personal or community library vegetarian cookbook collection.

This book is packed full of good recipes and good ideas, and the tips on stocking your vegan kitchen could be vey helpful for those who are not already master chefs (or simply not used to cooking vegan well and efficiently). The People's Potato Collective's cooking experience and passion for feeding people good (and nutritious, and ethical) food really show in this cookbook, and come together to make it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in vegan cooking.
The binding is also really awesome- more useful in the kitchen than you might expect. It helps the pages to lay flat on your counter so you have both hands free to recreate these recipes in all their portentially messy glory.

Just because you're a vegetarian doesn't mean you have to give up enjoying the taste of the sea. You can avoid fish in your diet and still please your palate and satisfy your appetite with gourmet quality dishes that give you the illusion of seafood through the clever culinary uses of vegetables and seasonings. That is the premise and promise of Nancy Berkoff's "Vegan Seafood: Beyond The Fish Shtick For Vegetarians", an impressively diverse collection of recipes that range from a Vegetarian 'Fish' Sauce; to an Ocean and Sea Minestrone; to Vegan 'Fish' Fillets' to a Vegan 'Crab' Ragoon; to the ever popular 'Fish' Taco. An extensive introduction includes websites offering 'Seafood' products and substitutions, cooking with vegan 'fish'; the use of saffron, and more. There are vegan recipes for soups, stocks, appetizers, salads, and main dishes. Of special note is the practical information about nutrition, including fish oil and Omega-3. Enhanced with a 'Guide to Resources from the Vegetarian Resources Group' and an Index, "Vegan Seafood" is an essential addition to personal, professional, and community library Cookbook, as well as Health/Nutrition, reference collections and vegetarian reading lists.

Definitely a great find! The book promotes wholesome, healthy cooking, with more recipes than most larger cookbooks. Parents of young vegetarians should read it to learn about their child's dietary choice. It proves vegetarians eat more than tofu and salad, and makes good cooking easy enough for a teenager or bachelor. The chapters on holidays and soups are the best. It's a wonderful gift for vegetarians or cookbook collectors.

I've been vegetarian for twelve years and love cooking. In those 12 years, I've tried out many different cookbooks. This is the only one I've found with consistently great tasting (and easy to prepare) recipes. Sometimes cookbooks have one or two good recipes. All are great in this book. Also a nice feature about it is that there aren't too many recipes. You won't feel overwhelmed flipping through it.

I love best these recipes: spaghetti squash with balsamic beans, grilled eggplant and red pepper sandwiches, spicy limas with pita, acorn squash risotto, cous cous burritos, root vegetable soup, spicy indian squash.

I've had this cookbook for 5+ years, yet I'm still able to find new recipes to try or to return to old classics. There's nothing 'fad-ish' about this cookbook.

We've been using this cookbook for nearly a year and haven't yet found a recipe that we didn't like. The instructions are clear, the pictures are helpful, and the difficulty rating system helps a lot with scheduling. My only complaint is that most recipse take longer to make than the book's estimate. Also, there are sometimes ingredients that are difficult to find in a regular grocery store(like sugocasa).

This book was like watching a mystery movie. If you turned your head or missed a comment, you could miss vital information. It took me awhile to read and I'm usually a quick reader, but this is a great thing. There was obviously so much research done to complete this book, specifically Chapter 11 with random information on how animal parts are used in everyday items. It was almost depressing to find out that things that I would never even think of involving animals are used (ex. coffins and tennis rackets). I actually put that random fact on a message board about sports. The chapter on slaughterhouses turned my stomach so much that I had trouble not gagging on my way to work (when I was reading it). If I wasn't a vegetarian already, I sure would've been one now. I also understand where the vegetarians are coming from who won't eat food that is a little too much like meat. I used to eat food such as this to ease my way into vegetarianism, but now it makes me slightly uncomfortable. Information on dieting, animal cruelty, healthy living, the real definition of omnivore, and every single rebuttal you can think of for someone who attacks a vegetarian/vegan is covered in this book. Speaking of comebacks, while I was sitting under the hair dryer at my beauty salon, my beautician made the mistake of saying "God created animals for a reason." My brain started churning ready to hit her with every single fact that I've basically memorized in this book about animal cruelty. I dare somebody to challenge my diet now. Outstanding! I'm recommending it to everybody I know.

Everyone loves a good barbeque -- and vegetarians are no exception! Mary Gwynn's Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook is a splendid compendium of superb dishes that would grace any barbecue event, and please non-vegetarians with a variety of delicious appetizers, salads, sauces, desserts, and more! From Roasted Eggplant and Cilantro Pate; Falafel in Pita Pockets with Tahini Mint Dressing; and Grilled Bread Salad with Parmesan and Mushrooms; to Grilled Goat Cheese and Herb Focaccia; Hot Tomato and Pepper Salsa; and Peach and Blueberry Parcels with Pecan Butter, Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook promises to be a family favorite for summertime outdoor or indoor dining!