Cookbook Recommendations

Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons: Bountiful Vegan Soups and Stews for Every Time of Year

Nava Atlas

The updated edition is now entirely vegan. This is a great introduction to creating basic vegan stocks and broths. Recipes are organized by season, so all year long you can have healthy, comforting soup made with seasonal produce. Flavors from many different cultures provide inspiration. A chapter of recipes for quick breads, muffins, and biscuits offers delicious accompaniment.

Voluptuous Vegan

Myra Kornfeld

Gourmet recipes and menu plans for those times you really want to impress someone. Vegan versions of traditional favorites intermingle creatively with fresh, contemporary recipes.

How it all Vegan ⁄
The Garden of Vegan ⁄
La Dolce Vegan

Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard

Three stylish, hip cookbooks with a DIY attitude. These recipes are simple to follow, easy to create, not at all time consuming, and taste great! Many are favorite recipes shared by vegan friends around the world. These volumes also offer recipes for animal-free health and beauty products, household cleaners, fashionable accessories, and sewing projects.

Vegan Lunch Box

Jennifer McCann

Super-creative ideas for lunchtime or anytime. These kid-friendly recipes were designed for children to take to school, but they'll suit anyone brown-bagging it. Daily menus offer balanced nutrition and flavor. The book is conveniently organized in a progression from quick and simple menus to more time-consuming or exotic fare. There are also fun ideas for special occasions and an allergen-free index in the back.

Please Feed Me

Niall McGuirk

This punk vegan cookbook provides a wealth of cheap, easy, delicious recipes as well as documentation of Dublin, Ireland's Hope Collective, a long-running community of music and activism. Each recipe is accompanied by personal stories and photos of various Hope gigs from 1984-1999. This combination of cooking, music, and history creates an unusual cookbook, as does the blank space in the back encouraging the participatory addition of your own recipes to the experience. And No Fear, the weight and volume measurements, temperatures, and food terms have all been Americanized for the convenience of cooks in the U.S.

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

Deborah Madison

This is the bible of vegetarian cooking, presenting 1400 vegetarian recipes, most of which either are vegan or can be made vegan. Madison teaches the fundamentals of cooking, explaining methods and flavor combinations for working with plant-based foods. She offers practical guidance for composing a vegetarian menu, pairing wine with vegetables, and executing prep and cooking techniques. Organization by type of food makes it easy to find recipes for the ingredients you have on hand. An indispensable resource for the vegan cook.

Vegan with a Vengeance

Isa Chandra Moskowitz

Straight outta Brooklyn comes this fun, fresh cookbook with a punk community attitude. Great tips on cheap vegan cooking, from scavenging kitchen appliances to weaning yourself away from processed convenience foods. Also contains good advice for animal-product substitutions.

Student's Go Vegan Cookbook

Carole Raymond

Great for beginning vegans or cooks, this cookbook focuses on easy and inexpensive meal ideas. The recipes do not require much time or special kitchen equipment, so they are perfect for students, busy people, and anyone living with a tiny kitchen. Covers a lot of basics: breakfast scrambles, dips, sandwiches and wraps, comforting soups, and healthy salads. Also includes plenty of recipes for favorite entrees like pasta, pizza, and beans and grains.

Simple Little Vegan Slow Cooker

Michelle Rivera

Indeed both simple and little, yet filled with satisfying vegan recipes from cuisines around the world. Slow cooking offers busy cooks an easy way to come home to a nourishing hot meal at the end of the day or to wake up to a hearty breakfast. Now vegans can enjoy the slow cooking experience, too.

Vegan Planet

Robin Robertson

Huge multicultural cookbook with 400 recipes featuring flavors from around the world. Variety is the spice of life, indeed! These recipes are health-conscious, as well.

Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook

Robin Robertson

These satisfying comfort food recipes will show vegans and non-vegans that vegan cuisine is not lacking in substance, flavor, or texture. Hearty classic home cooking and ethnic favorites marry tradition to fresh, healthy, and conscious cuisine. Egg- and dairy-free ingredient options, alternatives for hard-to-find ingredients, and timesaving tips all make this a very accessible and useful cookbook.

Intuitive Cooking

Joanne Saltzman

Although this cookbook offers some recipes, it is really an education in how to cook. Saltzman teaches how to balance nutrition, ingredients, and seasonings to create your very own delicious and healthy dishes. Guides you through kitchen tools, cooking methods, and average cooking times, providing a fundamental and thorough understanding of the cooking process. Useful for both beginner and more advanced cooks.

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