The Mediterranean region is famous for its delicious and healthy, olive oil-based cuisine. With more than 500 recipes, Martha Rose Shulman’s wonderful Mediterranean Harvest cookbook includes a huge variety of dishes from Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East.
Raw food recipes sometimes require soaking and/or dehydration and thus take many hours to prepare, which can be downright discouraging for would-be living foodists. Enter Alive in Five, by Angela Elliot, a small book filled with scores of recipes that take minutes to prepare but still look and taste great.
Comfort food varies from person to person, as it usually involves individual memories of being cared for by a parent or a grandparent and the special foods that they lovingly shared. But there are some dishes which are more universal, and that’s what Alicia C. Simpson’s Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food is all about. From breakfast to dessert, this cookbook offers delicious vegan versions of classic comfort foods.
Cupcakes are the ultimate treat. One cupcake is just the right amount of dessert, and it’s portable to boot. Whether you’re looking for easy vegan desserts to finish off a great meal, or elaborate treats that let you show off what you can do with frosting, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World has recipes and that will inspire and delight all of your senses.
What happens when a vegan mom wants to make sure that her son eats well at school, but worries that he’ll feel left out or deprived of all the lunchroom treats his classmates eat every day? Feed him better treats, of course!
A raw diet can be incredibly healthy if you know what you’re doing, but with so much conflicting information, it can be very difficult to make informed decisions. Becoming Raw is an in-depth, scientifically-based look at the nutrition available in raw food, offering detailed information about how to get all of the essential vitamins and minerals from a raw diet that is entirely free from animal products.
Subtitled “An amazing variety of delicious recipes, from chilis and casseroles to crumbles, crisps, and cookies,” 500 Vegan Recipes lives up to its name.
Friends and family aren’t always supportive of the vegan diet, claiming that meatless meals lack protein, vitamins, taste… all of the above. We can tell them they’re wrong until the cows come home (uneaten), but the best way to win over doubters is to feed them, and cookbooks like The Vegan Table, with “200 unforgettable recipes for entertaining every guest at every occasion,” make this really easy.
The Regency House Spa is a vegetarian, holistic resort north of Miami Beach, Florida. Their cookbook, Vegetarian Magic, should really be titled “Vegan Magic,” as there are no animal products in any of the recipes.
Thanks to her public television cooking show, Toni Fiore is one of the best-known vegetarians in the United States. Her cookbook carries the same name as the show, Totally Vegetarian, and features 200 of her favorite recipes, as well as a wealth of information for vegetarian cooks.
