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Home Store - Eat, Drink & Be Vegan: Great Vegan Food for Special and Everyday Celebrations
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Arsenal Pulp Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781551522241
ISBN: 1551522241
Label: Arsenal Pulp Press
Manufacturer: Arsenal Pulp Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2007-10-29
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Studio: Arsenal Pulp Press
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In Dreena Burton's first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which are based ont her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website (everydayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her nutritious recipes. In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food - imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals to dinner parties to casual potlucks. Eat, Drink and Be Vegan is destined to join the bestselling ranks of her first two books (The Everyday Vegan is now in its fourth printing, and Vive le Vegan! is in its third). Come celebrate with Dreena and impress your guests (and yourself) with these sensational animal-free recipes.
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Summary: Best Cookbook I own
Comment: This is the best cookbook I own for several reasons.
1. The recipes are VERY healthy (okay maybe not the celestial cream... ;P)
2. 99.9% of the ingredients can be found at a decent supermarket.
3. Everything I've made is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, everything!
4. There are a wide variety of protein dishes that use a wide variety of proteins (tempeh, the entire spectrum of beans, nuts, seeds, tofu).
5. There is an ENTIRE CHAPTER OF HUMMUS!
6. Non-vegans love these recipes so it's a go to for dinner parties or meals for mixed households.
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Summary: a great vegan cookbook for all levels of cooking ability
Comment: I'm a fan of Dreena Burton's first two cookbooks, and pre-ordered this book when I heard she was coming out with another. Everything that I've tried from all of Dreena's cookbooks have been great- some favorite recipes from ED&BV are Chipotle Lime Two Bean Hummus, Roasted Red Pepper and Almond Hummus (my favorite hummus recipe, ever) Tamari Roasted Chickpeas (these are dangerous- you will eat all of them in one sitting-seriously.) Peanut Passion Sauce, Orange Sesame Tofu, Chocolate Chunk Spice Cookies and Chocolate Pumpkin Pie.
What I like about this book is that not only are the recipes great, but the cookbook in general is so informative-each recipe is explained in detail and gives information about unusual ingredients and the recipe in general. Also, it's unusual in that the food is delicious and such excellent ingredients are used- even the cookies have only about 3T of granulated sweetener, and they dont rely on earth balance like alot of other vegan cookbooks do. The recipes feature whole foods, which is somewhat unusual as of every kind of fake meat/cheese/etc. is readily available and, in my opinion, relied upon too heavily. Also, the photography is beautiful and there are quite a few photographs. If you want a great vegan cookbook that offers creative recipes that are delicious and use whole foods, this is the way to go.
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Summary: Whoa! Spelt is not "wheat free"
Comment: I admit, overall the recipes in this cookbook are delicious. So why the low rating? Because the author, and her editors, have committed a major, major error; All the recipes that use spelt -- and there are several -- are labeled "wheat free." As an individual who educates people about Celiac disease and the gluten free diet, this misinformation is deadly.
Nutritionist Shereen Jegtvig notes "Spelt is very similar to wheat. So similar that FDA says that spelt products can't claim to be "wheat-free" on their labels." In fact, experts disagree on whether to classify spelt as its own species of wheat or to define it as a subspecies of common wheat. (University of Delaware Kent County Agricultural Extension).
I caution anyone with gluten intolerance or Celiac disease to be aware that if you purchase this book, do not use the "wheat free" spelt recipes as written. Continue to substitute your regular gluten-free flours for the spelt as you would with any other cookbook that is not specifically designed for gluten-free diets.
Once the publisher removes the "wheat free" designation, I'll happily change my rating.
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Summary: A disaster.
Comment: This is not a practical vegan cookbook, at least not if you aren't in the wheatgrass juice-guzzling, sugar-fearing, flavor-phobic crowd.
All the recipes I have tried in this book have turned out mediocre if not disastrous. The quantity of spices the author, especially ones like nutmeg and cinnamon, lead me to believe the author's sniffer/taster is broken. A potentially good side dish was ruined by the cloying odor and flavor of such seasonings.
As if that weren't enough, the ingredient list for the majority of the recipes really do assume you have access to a wide variety of weird "reagents," and the lady uses agave nectar like it's going out of style (which is over 90% fructose and heavily processed. Since the folks that use this stuff are often the same ones that go out of their way to avoid HFCS, you might want to consider just biting the bullet and using sugar). There are, of course, many other odd sugar-sub syrups, and specific brands of phony meat needed for the recipes. I could easily buy a conventional cookbook and just swap in some fake meat, and get much better results.
In any case, I deeply regret buying this cookbook, and if I hadn't slopped orange goo all over it in the kitchen, it would be back to Amazon this instant. Alas, I'm stuck with it, but I feel obligated to warn the masses about this cookbook with an undeserved 5-star rating.
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Summary: Urban Vegan Loves VLV!
Comment: A new classic that busts all the ugly stereotypes of vegan cuisine. Dreena's recipes are easy to whip up, yet taste like you've been slaving for hours. I love her innovation --and her infectious, can-do attitude. Full of useful information and fab recipes for every ocassion.
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