Some Like It Hot: 200 Spicy Vegetarian Recipes from Around the World

by Robin Robertson

Includes recipes from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, as well as a guide to the hottest spices, culinary lore, and a nutritional analysis for each recipe

Genres: Cookbooks

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

An experienced chef and consultant, Robin Robertson worked for many years in restaurants and catering in northeastern Pennsylvania and Charleston, South Carolina before she began writing cookbooks. In 1988, she left the restaurant business and became vegan for ethical reasons. She then rededicated her life to writing and teaching gourmet vegan cooking.

Over the years, she has fine-tuned her plant-based diet into an eclectic and healthful cooking style which she thinks of as a creative adventure with an emphasis on the vibrant flavors of global cuisines and fresh ingredients.

The author of more than 20 cookbooks, including the bestselling Vegan Planet, 1,000 Vegan Recipes, Vegan Fire and Spice, Vegan on the Cheap, and Quick-Fix Vegan, Robin also writes “The Global Vegan” column for VegNews Magazine and was a contributing editor and columnist for Vegetarian Times. She has also written for Cooking Light, Natural Health, Better Nutrition, Restaurant Business, and other magazines.

Robin Robertson has the professional experience in classic, contemporary, international cuisines to show you how to use plant-based ingredients to make the family favorites you grew up with and learn the secrets of exotic international cuisines, too.

Robin lives in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley with her husband Jon and their cats Gary and Mitzi.

Source: http://robinrobertson.com/about-me/

Reviews

[Celia Burn · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a vegetarian cookbook boasting recipes for lovers of spicy things, many of these recipes are a mild plus equivalent on the heat scale. Considering it’s an American author doing their take on recipes across the globe, a lot of the originals already plant-based, it is unsurprising that these recipes don’t do any of the recipes they’re riffing on justice — heat factored in or not. 


Think Asian fusion using spaghetti as a noodle substitution and so much more. If Some Like it Hot was simply geared as a lazy cookbook for anyone wanting quick recipes they could half-ass in the kitchen this would be a different, higher rated review.

[Val · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this from the library and liked it so much I bought my own copy.

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I crave spicy foods and I like cuisines from many regions of the world, and this book has these type of recipes – almost all are vegan. There are a few recipes with dairy ingredients listed, but it’s really easy to substitute non dairy ingredients for them. I guess I enjoy my foods extremely spicy because most of these recipes are not spicy enough for me if prepared according to the directions; it’s simple enough to prepare them spicier (or less spicy) to taste.

[Cole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some decent recipes, but definitely not very spicy.