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| Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Authors: Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 518
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 156924264X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781569242643
ASIN: 156924264X
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Total Dude September 18, 2008
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
My wife and I were expecting a cookbook that was full of recipes you could easily try. Not the case in this cookbook.
I should just stick to the vegetarian cookbooks we normally use.
Complicated recipes and no one asked for a second helping, matter of fact we ended up tossing what we did take after a few bites. We tried 9 recipes and all 9 failed the taste test.
Not What I Expected September 18, 2008
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
This cookbook is a major disappointment. I have been vegetarian or should say 97% vegan for over 28 years and this is one of the worst cookbooks I've come across yet. Recipes are time comsuming and flavors off. Sorry I wasted my money on this one and will probably end up reselling it for 1/2 of what I paid for it.
Want a good easy cookbook get they old tried and true
Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas or one of the cookbooks Nava Atlas put out there. Moosewood collection is also good.
 MAKE YOUR VEGETABLES SING! September 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been using this cookbook at least 2-4x/week to create healthy and flavorful meals for my whole family, my 11-year old loves these recipes, too, without missing the meat. Also, this book has tons of creative side dishes to create from veggies expanding our menu to include old favorites like Deli Mac Salad and Prospect Park Potato Salad to dressing up home fries with "cheezy Sauce". I love the brunch sections, the sauce sections, the salad sections, the dessert sections--well, they're all great. Most are FANTASTIC like the Mole Sauce and the Cashew Cucumber Dip!Yum! Do yourself & your family a favor and get this book today! I recommend it to all my friends.
Veganomicon is my favorite cookbook. September 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Veganomicon is my favorite cookbook. I have it on the kindle and the doorstop book version and I make something from it more than weekly. Spicy tempeh nori rolls, yuca tortillas, empanadas, seitan, chickpea cutlets and those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Just buy it. You won't regret it.
Veganomicon Turns Cooking Back into the Pleasure it should Be August 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I once only knew how to fry an egg. Then I went to Andalusia and my Spanish friends taught me all things culinary. Back then, I even ate sparrows and spent my afternoons curing fish and boiling pork bone. Fast forward into mid-life, I've changed my eating habits to be healthier and stay lean. In the years after returning to the US I lost interest in my imported cooking skills due to the lack of familiar Spanish food at the market, but especially because of the lack of tastiness in the typical American 30-minute meals.
Then this book reminded me what a pleasure it is to cook -- and eat. My "warning" to you is that it will take you about an hour at a time to prepare food. Well, what else do you do for an hour every day? Hang around after work for no reason? Sit in traffic? Visit the junk at Bed, Bath, and Beyond your Budget? Watch sitcoms? Make love to your Wii? Zombify on You Tube? Pump cortisol in chat rooms? Crash in a sugar coma? Hug the couch? Eat crap? If you really want to save up time for these things, the introduction shows you how to stock your kitchen with all the "complicated" ingredients criticized by the negative reviewer here. Once you do that, following this book is an easy and life-enriching routine. Fans of the book get that making a meal is an art that should be enjoyed and not minimized, which is precisely the attitude I missed leaving Spain. In the spirit of Mediterranean food, the premise of Veganomicon is that interesting ingredients, presentation, texture, and especially -- flavor -- is what makes vegan food -- and all food -- infinitely more satisfying.
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