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Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites

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Soul food goes vegan—101 plant-based takes on comfort food classics

If you love classic soul food but are hungry for options that don’t rely on meat or dairy, the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook is here to delight your taste buds. It’s full of mouthwatering, plant-based versions of comforting favorites like Gumbo, Biscuits and Gravy, and Cajun Fried “Chicken” that are totally vegan but still hearty, delicious, and satisfying.

This vegan soul food cookbook

Authentic flavors for everyone—Dig in to 101 modern twists on soul food staples that use only wholesome, plant-based ingredients. Easy and accessible—These recipes only include vegan ingredients that are affordable, easy to find, and easy to prepare at home. The vegan basics—Get a crash course in what it means to go vegan, how it helps your health (and the environment), and the fundamentals of veganizing comfort foods.

Savor a new take on beloved soul food favorites with the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook.

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 2, 2020

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3,635 reviews88 followers
June 14, 2020
"Vegan Soul Food Cookbook" is a vegan cookbook that focused on making dishes with similar tastes and textures to favorite southern recipes. She generally used whole food or minimally processed ingredients, but the focus was on replicating meat dishes (without the meat) so she used textured vegetable protein, vital wheat gluten, store-bought vegan butter and mayonnaise, etc. She briefly mentioned that you should buy organic corn and soy products due to the GMO issue. Almost all of the ingredients in the recipes should be easy to get.

Most of the 101 recipes served 4 to 6 people and took around 20-60 minutes to make. She included 9 recipes for breakfast, 10 recipes for salads, 10 recipes for soups and stews, 21 recipes for appetizers and sides, 21 recipes for main dishes, 12 recipes for sauces, seasonings, and dressings, 8 recipes for breads, rolls, and biscuits, and 10 recipes for desserts. The recipes provided the preparation time, cooking time, serving size, ingredients, instructions, and substitution tips. She labeled if a recipe was gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, oil-free, or 30 minutes or less. There was usually only one picture of a finished recipe for each section of recipes.

I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.
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Author 4 books17 followers
April 23, 2022
A cookbook with barely any pictures (maybe because of the e-book version?!) is simply not for me. Also, as I try to stay on a Dr Greger lane ('How not to die' - highly recommended) there are too many ingredients for me thst make those reciepes 'plant-based' but not really nutricious or healthy. It was just not the right fit for me.
1 review
July 6, 2020
Great recipes and variety

I would recommend this book to beginner vegans and seasoned vegans. Enjoyed the appetizers and desserts especially. Quick and easy dinners too.
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569 reviews21 followers
May 22, 2020
Callisto Media/Rockridge Press was kind enough to send me a copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review.


I really enjoyed this book - I try to behave and be vegan as much as possible but I love REAL cheese and cupcakes.

What I can do with this book is to add meat or animal products as I want when I want to eat differently when I have a craving - I have a serious problem with vegan "meats" as they are full of ingredients: once I compared "chicken" to chicken - the frozen chicken had 48 ingredients. No thank you!

A great book of deep and delicious recipes that I cannot wait to cook my way thourhg.
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December 25, 2021
I got this as a gift and have dog eared nearly every page! So good!!
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September 18, 2022
Great Vegan Substitutes

I enjoyed this book. Many recipes, I bookmarked and will come back to again and again. My only complaint would be to have more main courses.
1,984 reviews17 followers
July 5, 2023
Nice recipes. Just waiting for Chik'n to become more palatable.
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August 31, 2024
make sense

Good cookbook: learned a little of history and food varieties . Understandable and relatable. Posted someone line and got good responses. Worthy read!
1 review
December 29, 2020
Good Read

This book is very helpful to beginners looking to start the vegan journey with all natural seasonings colorful food and very good with details
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