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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
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Avg. Customer Rating:  259 reviews
Sales Rank: 952
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:
 Thank God for cupcakes! June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book for us Vegans. She has done a great job developing baking recipies that are yummy!
I have not starting making the main dishes yet, but so far everything is really good.
I use this cookbook every week June 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really like this cookbook--everything I have tried in it has come out the way it is supposed to, in large part due to the helpful comments in each recipe. I have not been let down by anything in this book and I love that the book includes cookies and desserts, muffins, and waffles, as well as savory meals. Our favorites include the pumpkin muffins and waffles, pad thai, morrocan dinner, tofu frittata and the incredible pumpkin, oatmeal raisin cookies. My only gripe is that maple syrup seems to be the secret ingredient in most everything in here, but hey, it seems to work!
 Love the recipes, loathe the heavy-handedness. May 30, 2008
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Cheap, Delicious, Animal-Free Recipes that Rock (Avalon, 2005)
I think a new rule of thumb is called for here: never trust any book whose title contains the phrase "with a vengeance" whose author promises-- after a ranting, raving foreword by Ryan MacMichael-- at the end of page one that "the heavy-handedness ends here." Because I guarantee you, folks, that just isn't true. It's certainly not true in this case; As the book progresses, you will find yourselves reading propaganda for Food Not Bombs, cutesy asides on the evils of corporate America, etc. etc. ad nauseam. Pretty much what you'd expect from a book whose foreword contains the sentence "Eating is a moral act or a political statement, depending on whom you ask." (I'll give MacMichael credit, at least, for the "whom", and Avalon credit for not changing it.)
Which is kinda too bad. If you can stuff down your inherent loathing for such things, there are some great recipes to be found here. I can't knock any cookbook that contains a falafel recipe. Everyone should know how to make falafel correctly, and there are maybe fifty people on the planet who do. (They mostly work for really expensive restaurants.) You can end your ignorance on page 98 of this book. (Oh, good lord, the style has rubbed off on me. I'm sorry. I'll try not to do it again.)
Unfortunately, the book does have one other big knock against it-- Moskowitz' repartee throughout is an odd mixture of cynical and cute. Sometimes it works (cf. Tricia Sullivan's Maul, which I will review once I've unburied myself from the other fifty I have to get to). Sometimes it doesn't. If you come away from this book with the former response, good. I didn't-- it grated incessantly.
But still, the recipes. I am, as I'm pretty sure you figured out from the beginning of this review, not a vegan-- I believe the familiar and much-loathed acronym stands for People Eating Tasty Animals, and wear my philosophy proudly whenever possible-- but, you know, falafel. And interesting egg/milk substitute ideas that could be invaluable to non-vegans watching their weight, for example. So bite the bullet, get it out of the library, and see if there's anything you can use. I will be quite surprised if there isn't, no matter how much of a carnivore you are. ***
This book is a must for any vegan May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love VWAV, I especially love the vegan chocolate chip pumpkin cookies.
This book is fun, quirky and I'm a huge fan of the post punk kitchen.
Yum!! May 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yum yum yum!! I love that so many of the recipes can be made with things you might have laying around in the cupboard!
I suppose that my only "gripe" is the proliferation of white flour, but any experienced cook can substitute whole wheat pastry flour with little effort.
YUM! What a wonderful book!
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