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| Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock | 
 enlarge | Author: Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  259 reviews
Sales Rank: 949
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1569243581
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781569243589
ASIN: 1569243581
Publication Date: October 27, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 great vegan cookbook June 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a gift for someone, but the recipes looked great and it came really fast. Thanks!
 One of my top three vegan cookbooks June 16, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
(And one of the other top ones is her newer book, The Veganomicon)
I found Vegan with a Vengeance at my local Waldenbooks in podunk town, Okla. I was so shocked that they had it, I bought it (trying to create demand here, you know?) It's one of the best purchases I've made in my young vegan life.
I found the recipes wonderfully easy to make, and easy to find the ingredients for, even in a small Oklahoma town (with occasional trips for specialty items to the health food store about an hour away, but only if I was going in that direction anyway). I love her pancake recipe ... it's one of the easiest vegan pancake recipes I've ever found. Her scrambled tofu recipe is also great ... I was loathe to abandon my own tried and true scrambled tofu, but I decided to give hers a try and haven't looked back. The pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies are also awesome. I was skeptical about the "fronch" toast, because I loved me some french toast back in the (nonvegan) day. I was pleasantly surprised. It's not totally like the real thing, but it looks convincing and it tastes pretty awesome in its own right.
All in all, I liked that these were actual real recipes of actual real food that actual real people eat. Five stars!
 Not delicious, fast, or cheap! June 13, 2008
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for my 4 y.o. who is allergic to dairy and eggs. I've made the "fronch" toast (that's what the author calls it), pancakes, muffins, cookies, and he hasn't liked anything I've made from this book so far. Both of the gravy recipes weren't even edible; the "punk rock" chickpea gravy was sour and all I could taste in the miso gravy was the cooking wine. Every recipe I've tried took me at least an hour and a half to prepare (and that's not including all the shopping). Most of the recipes call for at least 10 ingredients, many of which are not available in my neighborhood grocery store in Philadelphia. In order to make several dishes from this book I had to make separate trips around the city. I purchased at least 11 spices from an Indian market (~$30) and specialty foods from the Asian market and health food store that I'll probably never use again (eg. nutritional yeast and hijiki). There are no pictures for these uncommon ingredients and there are only 10 pictures of the finished dishes. What there is a lot of in this book is personal anecdotes and jokes which were more annoying than amusing because it seems more time was spent on trying to be witty rather than providing decent recipes. I've had more luck with vegan recipes I found off the internet or by just using the vegan alternative in tried and true recipes.
Good cookbook June 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Really interesting recipes....her Isa pizza (best pesto and marinara sauce i have ever had) and mango rolls are delish. However, the recipes are all fairly time consuming and i did sometimes wish she used more nutritious ingredients (whole wheat flour vs. white, etc). However, she is very entertaining and the cookbook is a testimony to her amazing journey as a vegan...
Amazing! June 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've tried a good deal of the recipes in this book and my family has loved almost all of them. I especially love the cookies and muffins! Some of the meals are a bit too "hippie" for my liking but the concepts are great.
My only complaint with this authors books is the use of products that are somewhat hard to find (or overly expensive) in rural areas.
Overall its an amazing addition to even the non-vegans cook book collection. I love so many of the recipes and use them all the time! It has a great lay-out, nice pictures, its easy to read, and the recipes are practically "dummy proof".
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