Vegan cookbook
Good delivery time. Very good condition. Helpful, basic recipes for a person of the vegan persuasion.
Interesting, Middle of the Road Starter Vegan Cookbook
This was one of the first vegan cookbooks I ever bought, and I thought it was a great starter cookbook. I found the recipes REALLY simple and approachable, given that I had almost no cooking experience at that time. Recipes generally have between 2 and 5 steps, clearly laid out in list format as 1), 2), 3), etc., and the steps are really simple and non-threatening for novice cooks (e.g. "Chop the mushrooms finely. Saute in the oil until tender" is a typical step). I generally liked everything I made, my two favorite recipes being the Macaroni, Mushroom, and Tofu Casserole and the Spicy Tofu Scramble with Red Pepper and Tomato.
I would agree with other reviewers that this isn't the best cookbook if you're going to be cooking for non-vegans, and I'd like to point out that when recipes call for "Nutritional Yeast" they are definitely not not NOT (as suggested by another reviewer) calling for Vegemite, which yes, is totally disgusting to most people (including me!), but actual Nutritional Yeast, such as that made by Red Star and sold on Amazon .
All that said, I'd agree that there are better vegan cookbooks on the market, particularly if you have any cooking experience. I would recommend this cookbook, but only as a supplement to one of the better, more comprehensive vegan cookbooks such as Robin Robertson's Vegan Planet or Sarah Kramer's How It All Vegan, or Isa Moskowitz's Vegan With a Vengence.
Bottom line: This cookbook gave me cooking confidence as a new, transitioning vegan, but I've moved on to better cookbooks and rarely look back.
not bad
I'm reviewing the second edition.
This is a nicely presented book. Quantities are all given in the various different measurement systems and the author includes multiple names for ingredients when they have them.
I wouldn't really class this as "easy" though. Some of the ingredients are hard to find where live and are probably hard to find outside of Britain (tinned pease pudding, for example) though this is forgivable as recipes calling for obscure or specifically Brittish ingredients are kept to a minimum. But the layout isn't really very easy to follow either. Sometimes 5 or more steps are combined into one. And I would have liked some pictures of finnished products.
There are some unusual recipes in this book. I haven't been game to try the banana and spaghetti curry, for example. Or the plums with avocado topping, or many of the recipes calling for avocado. But of the recipes I've tried most have turned out well (even if somewhat deviated from the instructions).
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