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Incredibly Delicious: The Vegan Paradigm Cookbook
Over 500 incredibly delicious, 100% cholesterol-free recipes. From quick, easy meals to gourmet banquets. —Extensive chapter on raw food preparation. How to sprout, grow wheatgrass, and cultivate a vegan garden. —Dogs can be vegan too!
Vegan alternative ingredients and products. —Introduction by Michael A. Klaper, M.D.
Quotes from medical and environmental authorities affirming the health and ecological benefits of a plant-based diet. Inspiring words of wisdom from great minds, such Gandhi, Plato, Buddha, Einstein, Socrates, Pythagoras, Schweitzer, Thoreau, G. B. Shaw, DaVinci, & Tolstoy.
Book Specs Paper Back
Book Publishing Company
2003
320
Table of Contents Foreword
Introduction
Glossary of Ingredients
Vegan Sources of Minerals and Vitamins
Preparing to Cook
Metric Conversion Chart & U.S. Measuring Conversions
Baking Guide
Cooking Guide for Whole Grains
Cooking Guide for Beans
Bread and Breakfast
Scrumptious Salads and Soups
Dips, Dressings, Sauces & Gravies
Appetizers and Side Dishes
Entr
Vegan alternative ingredients and products. —Introduction by Michael A. Klaper, M.D.
Quotes from medical and environmental authorities affirming the health and ecological benefits of a plant-based diet. Inspiring words of wisdom from great minds, such Gandhi, Plato, Buddha, Einstein, Socrates, Pythagoras, Schweitzer, Thoreau, G. B. Shaw, DaVinci, & Tolstoy.
Book Specs Paper Back
Book Publishing Company
2003
320
Table of Contents Foreword
Introduction
Glossary of Ingredients
Vegan Sources of Minerals and Vitamins
Preparing to Cook
Metric Conversion Chart & U.S. Measuring Conversions
Baking Guide
Cooking Guide for Whole Grains
Cooking Guide for Beans
Bread and Breakfast
Scrumptious Salads and Soups
Dips, Dressings, Sauces & Gravies
Appetizers and Side Dishes
Entr
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July 10, 2007
This is another great book that I highly recommend to those vegans that want to know what they can cook. And, this is a nice introduction for those who wonder what the heck a vegan eats. Don't miss all the sweet quotes about humane treatment of animals and such.
January 23, 2010
Great vegan cookbook, no flashy pictures, simple layout, but a little of everything
February 8, 2010
So far I have tried five recipes from this cookbook after receiving it last week, and it is just fabulous.
The almond milk was simple, relatively quick, and cheap to make. And then it tasted so delicious: I'm not really a drink-a-glass-of-milk person, but I couldn't stop returning to the fridge to replenish my cup with this stuff.
Creamy potato soup is hearty, full-flavoured, and simple. My husband, who is an omnivore, said it was as good as any other potato soup he's eaten, and I mention this comment because frequently meat-eaters object to a loss of flavour in veggie/vegan food: in the case of potato soup, I believe it's often cooked with ham of some kind.
The sesame broccoli was also good; again, my husband's comment, because I put in too much hot pepper for my liking. My one-year-old and the husband like heat, but I'm apparently lily-livered when it comes to red spices. It smelled really good, though, and I plan on making it again.
The rich chocolate mousse is chilling in the fridge right now, but when I was licking the bowl, I loved the thick, creamy, dark choc, which has been a craving for the past few days.
And the only issue I have is with the "whipped dream": a soy-milk-based whipped cream. Definitely use a food processor with the metal s-shaped blade, or that is what I'll do next time, because in a standing kitchen-aid blender, which is the kind of thing the recipe calls for, it makes the consistency of whipped dream much more like custard. Tastes good, though.
A couple of things about the supplementary vegan-lifestyle-related pages and quotes: I do have a problem with those quotes (and the decision to include them in this cookbook) that compare the oppression/bad treatment of animals with the oppression/bad treatment of women. It is offensive.
And there is more than one place in this cookbook that talks about feeding animals like dogs and bears solely vegan food. One of the quotes says something like, "When we fed the bear vegetables, he was calm and friendly; but when he was fed with meats, he became a rageful beast! Therefore it is clear that a vegetarian diet is better for bears." This quote---again a questionable decision to include it in the first place---doesn't seem to use a scientific approach to describing and analysing the event witnessed (that of the bear's personality after being fed two different foods). And then a scientific approach to whether animals like dogs and bears should be vegan or not is also missing.
Apart from these two drawbacks (in my opinion) to the cookbook as a whole and to the supplementary information specifically, I love this book. Am so glad I bought it. Will definitely be trying to make almost everything in it. Love.
The almond milk was simple, relatively quick, and cheap to make. And then it tasted so delicious: I'm not really a drink-a-glass-of-milk person, but I couldn't stop returning to the fridge to replenish my cup with this stuff.
Creamy potato soup is hearty, full-flavoured, and simple. My husband, who is an omnivore, said it was as good as any other potato soup he's eaten, and I mention this comment because frequently meat-eaters object to a loss of flavour in veggie/vegan food: in the case of potato soup, I believe it's often cooked with ham of some kind.
The sesame broccoli was also good; again, my husband's comment, because I put in too much hot pepper for my liking. My one-year-old and the husband like heat, but I'm apparently lily-livered when it comes to red spices. It smelled really good, though, and I plan on making it again.
The rich chocolate mousse is chilling in the fridge right now, but when I was licking the bowl, I loved the thick, creamy, dark choc, which has been a craving for the past few days.
And the only issue I have is with the "whipped dream": a soy-milk-based whipped cream. Definitely use a food processor with the metal s-shaped blade, or that is what I'll do next time, because in a standing kitchen-aid blender, which is the kind of thing the recipe calls for, it makes the consistency of whipped dream much more like custard. Tastes good, though.
A couple of things about the supplementary vegan-lifestyle-related pages and quotes: I do have a problem with those quotes (and the decision to include them in this cookbook) that compare the oppression/bad treatment of animals with the oppression/bad treatment of women. It is offensive.
And there is more than one place in this cookbook that talks about feeding animals like dogs and bears solely vegan food. One of the quotes says something like, "When we fed the bear vegetables, he was calm and friendly; but when he was fed with meats, he became a rageful beast! Therefore it is clear that a vegetarian diet is better for bears." This quote---again a questionable decision to include it in the first place---doesn't seem to use a scientific approach to describing and analysing the event witnessed (that of the bear's personality after being fed two different foods). And then a scientific approach to whether animals like dogs and bears should be vegan or not is also missing.
Apart from these two drawbacks (in my opinion) to the cookbook as a whole and to the supplementary information specifically, I love this book. Am so glad I bought it. Will definitely be trying to make almost everything in it. Love.
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