[.ca] Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook (ISBN 156924264X)

Most Awesome Vegan Cookbook:
Isa and Terry wow us again with their amazing ability to create innovative vegan dishes with depth, texture and flavour, as well as entertain us with their culinary humour. This book not only contains an in-depth introduction on how to cook any bean, grain or veggie, but has wide range of recipes from quick weeknight fixes to amaze-your-dinner-party-guests gourmet meals. Easy icons identify supermarket-friendly dishes, as well as lower-fat and gluten-free recipes. Every recipe is appropriate for long-time vegans who appreciate tasty food, as well as new vegans, potential vegans and family members of vegans. Or really anyone. My favourites include Snobby Joes, Chestnut-Lentil Pate, Caesar Salad, Hot Sauce-Glazed Tempeh, Marinated Tofu, Chickpea Cutlets, Baked Potato and Greens Soup, Vanilla Ice Cream and Pistachio-Rosewater Cookies. This book is required reading for every cook who makes healthy and delicious food.

Eat it, haters!:
First off, a warning: this is NOT a cookbook for those who obsess over every miserable, tasteless calorie that enters their body. This is a COOKBOOK not a DIET book, and man oh man is it good. The chickpea cutlets are not only easy and nutritious but are quite possibly one of the best things I've put in my mouth, ever, especially when paired with the mustard sauce. The smlove pie should lay to rest any notions that veganism is a regimen of deprivation and jealousy toward non-vegan food. The recipes are well written in a friendly, encouraging tone, and the addition of estimated recipe times and icons showing which recipes are "supermarket friendly" or gluten free is a nice touch. If you don't like this book, you either 1) have no tastebuds; 2) haven't actually cooked anything out of it; or 3) are just a plain old jerk!

Delicious!:
I bought this cookbook a few days ago, and I've been cooking from it for every meal since. Everything I've tried has been amazing! I'm a vegetarian, and my boyfriend is severely allergic to dairy, so finding meals we'll both enjoy can be very difficult. Even though he's an avowed meat eater, even he has been raving about the recipes! I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who wants to limit the animal products in their diet, not just vegans.