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Illmatic: For ovo-lacto vegetaruan cooking, Molly Katzen's original Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest are good for the beginner—easily sourced, charmingly illustrated, written in a chatty style—but they do show their age (early 1970s): loads of butter and cheese. But the food is hearty and filling.
The Moosewood series of cookbooks continued, by divers hands: next best is probably Sunday Nights at the Moosewood Restuarant, a fat volume of recipes grouped by theme or ethnic origin. Excellent resource for menu-planning.
On the vegan tip, there are a couple by Tanya Bernard and Sarah Kramer—How It All Vegan and The Garden of Vegan. Horrendous title-puns aside, they are, again, good for the less-experienced cook, emphasizing simplicity and ease. There's a cute retro-fifties funkiness in the book design, too.
I must confess, though, to being a leeetle put off by the stridency that occasionally creeps into the text of vegan cookbooks. Not everybody who goes vegan does so out of a commitment to animal rights, and I for one am not interested in sitting through a political lecture on my way to a recipe for cupcakes, y'know? |
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