Cookbook Reviews - Everyday Vegan

Everyday Vegan
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
© 2001 by Jeani-Rose Atchison
ISBN: 155643376X

Nice Extras:

Suggested staple list
Substitutions for ingredients that are not very healthy (arrowroot instead of cornstarch, carob powder instead of cocoa, substitutions for eggs etc.).
Tips on how to change your diet.
Information on converting to a more conscious life. Includes tips on changing the diet of children.
Information on moving away from chemical house cleansers. Includes natural recipes for washing floors, scrubbing pots, clearing pipe blockages, getting rid of fleas etc.
Information on organic foods.
Includes article linking pesticides, children and aggression.
Information on genetically-engineered foods. Includes a list of foods to avoid when they are not listed as organic or GMO-free.
Information on irradiated foods.
Information on living (raw) foods.
Detailed information on tap water (includes information on fluoride and chlorine).
Information on feeding children.
A list of recipes from the book that children especially like.
Detailed information on fats, proteins, dairy, carbohydrates, sweeteners and sprouting.
How to make tempeh.
Information on the Vita-Mix blender.
Information on B12.
Aggression, violence and the food connection. Includes a list of foods that can cause aggression in a child.
Glossary of special ingredients.

Reviewer: MJ from Copenhagen, Denmark:

This is one of the very first vegan cookbooks I owned after I went vegan. It's good if you're more concerned with extremely healthy meals. There's nothing wrong with that, just that the meals tend to have a very healthy taste to it, instead of just being a nice meal. I have made several meals from this, the eggplant lasagna, ginger cookies (I make them every Christmas), and the Millet salad with apricots, ginger and pine nuts.
I haven't really used this book much for probably 2 reasons. One is, when I first bought it, I was living in New York City. I didn't have much of a kitchen and I had hundreds of amazing vegan restaurants to chose from, so I didn't have to cook much. Now, I'm living in Denmark and many of the ingredients used in this book are impossible to find or outrageously expensive. Especially since she used a lot of tempeh. There's only one health food store that sometimes carries it, only recently, and it's expensive. The few times I have had it, I didn't find inspiration from the recipes. Maybe because it's so rare to find and expensive, I always want something better to make than a reuben, meatloaf etc with it.
Maybe, someday, I will enjoy this cookbook more. Until then, I will continue to use my Sarah Kramer, Vegan Planet and 500 vegan Recipes cookbooks.
I can say, the information she gives on how food affects our children, and some of the extreme health points are great. *I have nothing wrong with overly healthy tasting food, I think I just haven't been so inspired by the recipes included. It's just not my go-to cookbook.