Vegan Cookbook: Over 90 Mouthwatering Recipes for All Occasions |
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Tony Weston, Yvonne Bishop
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Pages: 128 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0600616312
Pub: Hamlyn
Pub date: 2007-05-15
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 265506
Reader Reviews:
Mouth Watering? More Like Stomach Turning! (2/5 people found this helpful)
I found the dietry information at the beginning of this book quite useful but as a person who does not eat animal-derived foods and therefore has always paid attention to this sort of information there are only so many times I can be told the same 100 fascinating facts about nutrition without my eyes rolling into the back of my head from boredom. Did you know that vitimin C is essential for human health and can be found in citrus fruits? No? Congratulations, you must be the last person on Earth not to know it. You can come out of the cupboard now and start living with the rest of us again.
The dietry stuff is just on the opening ten pages or so. Most of the book is taken up with recipies. Lordy, Miss Scarlet! What recipies! Just the descriptions made me feel sick and the photographs to accompany the recipies are the most powerful advertisement I have ever seen for eating meat! Yuk!
Here's some of the recipies for "essential" ingredients used in the recipies:-
"vegan cream cheese" (why do they insist on trying to make 'mock' versions of dairy products?)
175g tofu
50g coconut oil, melted
1 tbs rapeseed oil
1 tbs lime juice
1 tbs agave syrup
2 tsp salt
Anything in that sound remotely cheese-like? Anything in that sound remotely like anything you'd want to eat? Tell you what I think, it sounds like a kitchen-sink version of the sort of Mad Science that the food industry gets up to. You know what I mean: converting chicken droppings into a filler for pies and pastries. Hydrogenating sludge to bulk out "farmhouse fresh" cakes and biscuits. Gag! I know let's whisk together a bunch of totally unrelated ingredients that taste foul together and pretend the result is edible. No. No. NO! "Cream cheese"?!? In a pig's eye!
Sayonnaise (their vegan version of mayonnaise)
125 ml soya milk
100 ml sunflower oil
1 tbs white wine vinegar
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tbs Dijon mustard
25 ml flax oil
Blahhh! Shudder!
Instead of forcing food to pretend to be something it is not why not just enjoy it for what it is? Soya milk is okay in a milkshake or on cereal. It is lousy in tea or coffee. Sunflower oil is tasteless so you use it to fry sweet pancakes and not as a salad dressing. You use ingredients with respect for what they are. Good vegan cuisine has to love non-animal foods and create great recipies building on the strengths of those foods instead of trying (and failing) to make imitation diary or meat or fish products. What vegan would want to eat imitation meat or cheese, anyway? Who are their recipies for? Bizarre.
Trust me. Do not buy this book! Use the money to buy some tasty fresh fruit and veg, sit down and eat it slowly, and enjoy it and as you relish the taste remember no one died or suffered to bring you this pleasure. Feel a glow of satisfaction, a combination of sensual pleasure and moral comfort. Now that feeling's the reason why you eat vegan food - you wont get that feeling from anything in this book so forget it (if you have bought this book, bin it, you deserve better).
To the authors: sorry but no this is utterly the wrong way to go. This is what vegan cooking was in the bad old days of the 1970s when peaople were making "cheeze" out of boiled potates coloured yellow with tumeric (retch). Let's move on.
nutrition for vegan diets (1/1 people found this helpful)
A section is provided at the begining of this vegan cookbook that details all the essential nutrients you need to be a healthy vegan diet and the foods that contain them. Nutrients such as Vitamin B12 can be found in Chlorella Algae and even long chain essential omega 3 fats such as EPA and DHA can now be sourced from sustainably grown natural algae oil rather than industrial fish oil.
New Edition - Vegan Cookbook (0/1 people found this helpful)
recipes from this book are on the BBC food website
Not all it's cut out to be (10/10 people found this helpful)
I was really excited about this book but it turned out to be a real disappointment. Many ingredients are difficult to find and I find the long list of ingredients required to be offputting, while the flavours are often too sweet and cloying. Great for a dinner party, maybe, if you have hours to spare and want to make a great impression, but for quick meals this gets the definite thumbs down.
Mixed reception (7/7 people found this helpful)
Some of the recipes work very well and are quite exciting to find - e.g. the "cheese-on-toast" and the "omelette" - whilst others don't work so well for me (pancakes completely failed), taste rather odd (chocolate cookies) or call for ingredients that are probably more available in Australia or the UK (for example, many of the recipes call for avocado oil).
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