What is your most used vegan cookbook?
Posted by Saskia on Feb 26, 2007 · Member since Jan 2007 · 1976 posts
I'm a vegetarian and want to buy a cookbook to help me transition into a vegan diet. I am looking for a vegan cookbook with easy, tasty recipes and ingredients that are easy to find. Can you help me?
Wow, this is an old thread, haha.
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World is my #1 cookbook. Others I use but not as often as cupcakes.
I love cookbooks, I have far too many of them and keep wanting more :) I agree that thriftstores and used book stores are good places to look. I have a few that i've gotten at used books stores for great prices (middle eastern vegetarian cooking book for 6.95?!).
My favorites are VCTOTW, because I bake and decorate cakes for all kinds of events so its just nice to have that around. I also have an old one that used to be my mom's called Recipes From an Ecological Kitchen ( http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-Ecological-Kitchen-Lorna-Sass/dp/0688100511/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213276744&sr=8-1 ) and its huge and has great information, not to mention really good recipes that don't rely on lots of substitutes. It gives you information for cooking and storing grains and beans and blurbs about the ones that you might not be super familiar with as well as the same sorts of info for many of the vegetables. The book isn't vegan by name but it doesn't use any dairy or eggs and it is vegetarian, so call it what you will.
I also use Nava Atlas' Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons book all the time and I have yet to be dissapointed with one of her soup recipes :)
Peta cookbooks, Native Foods, the Candle Cafe, Vegan World Fusion, mediterranean Vegan, Vegan Family Favorites, Bryanna Clark GRogan + newsletter/her site, Isa Chandra.... also just veganizing old fave recipes and how can we forget Vegweb of course!!
Thank you for the great recommendations. I've got a growing library of vegan cookbooks since I posted this thread nearly two years ago. I have really grown to love vegan cooking and baking since then.
In addition to this website, The Joy of Vegan Baking and How It All Vegan! are the two recipe sources I use the most so far. I am still exploring Vive le Vegan!, Veganomicon and Cooking the Whole Foods Way.
I also checked out Skinny Bitch In the Kitch out at the library but wasn't too impressed with all the meat and cheese substitutes used. So I xeroxed a few recipes and returned it.
Mine! ::)
At the risk of sounding cheezy (vegan-style), it's honestly the only one I use for everything. After spending almost two years writing it, I have gotten out of the habit of throwing things together! Just today I used it for like four things. :)
www.radianthealth-innerwealth.com
Mine! ::)
At the risk of sounding cheezy (vegan-style), it's honestly the only one I use for everything. After spending almost two years writing it, I have gotten out of the habit of throwing things together! Just today I used it for like four things. :)
www.radianthealth-innerwealth.com
Your cookbook looks awesome quintess! Kudos for publishing your book and living the dream-- I think most of us vegan foodies only dream of doing something like that! Send your book free to Oprah, Ellen, Tyra, other celebs to get some publicity out there! Vegan represent!!
Your cookbook looks awesome quintess! Kudos for publishing your book and living the dream-- I think most of us vegan foodies only dream of doing something like that! Send your book free to Oprah, Ellen, Tyra, other celebs to get some publicity out there! Vegan represent!!
Thanks! I actually did send a copy to Oprah and Ellen. It is hard to know if it will actually get in their hands though....any ideas? It sounds nuts, but I really believe that they would both love the book (especially the humor and early chapters on inner well-being) if they got their mitts on it. :)
try robin quivers from the howard stern show. shes vegan but she seems like she does alot of smoothies and not much cooking - it couldnt hurt though!
Your cookbook looks awesome quintess! Kudos for publishing your book and living the dream-- I think most of us vegan foodies only dream of doing something like that! Send your book free to Oprah, Ellen, Tyra, other celebs to get some publicity out there! Vegan represent!!
Thanks! I actually did send a copy to Oprah and Ellen. It is hard to know if it will actually get in their hands though....any ideas? It sounds nuts, but I really believe that they would both love the book (especially the humor and early chapters on inner well-being) if they got their mitts on it. :)
Well, maybe I would email/call the public relations-type people before and after sending books, letting them know who you are and you're sending your book, would love to demonstrate easy recipes on the show etc...to see if they have a show they could fit you into. You can get creative with this. I'll think of some more ideas and post k!
I have several favorite go-to vegan cookbooks, but topping the list are Veganomicon, Vegan Planet, and The McDougall Quick & Easy Cookbook
I don't really use any of mine. They all seem to have either the same or silmilar recipes in them or just stuff I'm not interested in. They literally just sit on my bookshelf and collect dust.
I don't really use any of mine. They all seem to have either the same or silmilar recipes in them or just stuff I'm not interested in. They literally just sit on my bookshelf and collect dust.
word on that one... they are all so time consuming, it bums me out... i can only cook cookbook recipes on my days off but i am trying to make it a point to start using them... viva vegan is pretty awesome
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