Cookbook Reviews - Vive le Vegan!

Veganomicon
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
© 2007 by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
ISBN: 9781569242643

Try out Sample Recipes: Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Chickpea Cutlets and Eggplant-Potato Moussaka with Pine Nut Cream

Nice Extras:

Very nice and detailed information on stocking the Veganomicon pantry.
Includes information on canned goods, fridge staples, herbs and spices, baking basics, sugars, flours and thickening starches, oils, pantry sundries and wines and vinegars.
A wonderful list of kitchen equipment, including many tips.
Cooking and prepping terminology. Includes information on the terms braise, deglaze, julienne and sear.
Tips for lower-fat cooking.
Detailed information on how to cook a vegetable. Includes information on grilling, roasting and steaming particular vegetables.
Detailed information on how to cook a grain. Includes information on cooking bulgur, couscous, kasha, millet, oats, polenta, quinoa and rice.
Detailed information on how to cook a bean. Includes information on many different types of beans.
Beautiful, color pictures of some of the dishes.

Average Rating: (2 reviews total)

Reviewer: Vegan Mum from California, U.S.A.:

If I could have only two cookbooks, then Veganomicon and Vegan With a Vengeance would be the ones I'd choose. Veganomicon continues the always-reliably-yummy precedent set by Vegan With a Vengeance with almost twice as many scrumptious and easy recipes, such as White Bean Aioli, Tofu Florentine, Bulgur Arugula Cannellini Salad, Escarole with Capers and White Beans, Roasted Butternut Squash with Coriander, Dill-Basmati Rice with Chard and Chickpeas, very nice soups, amazing one-pot meals (Leek and Bean Cassoulet with Biscuits, Seitan Piccata with Olives and Green Beans, Cauliflower Mushroom Potpie with Black Olive Crust), Pasta e Fagioli, Mac Daddy (excellent vegan mac 'n' cheese), and many more. My only complaint is that the waffle recipes tend to stick. The categorized index at the back is handy (for instance, when you need to cook for gluten- sensitive relatives).

Reviewer: L. D. from New York, U.S.A.:

This is the best cook book I have ever used-- vegan or not-- every recipe I've made from it is a complete success (even in the eyes of my meat-loving husband). Go buy it now!