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Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock | 
 enlarge | Authors: Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Isa Moskowitz
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  249 reviews
Sales Rank: 1936
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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Product Description
In Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, host of the community access vegan cooking show The Post Punk Kitchen, brings the do-it-yourself, community-driven ethos of punk rock into the kitchen. Her cooking philosophy embraces being kind to animals (all recipes are completely animal-product free) and your wallet—while being creative and having fun in the process. She emphasizes staying clear of corporate brand-name foods, and says that cooking should be an innovative, experimental, and completely real experience. This one-of-a-kind cookbook offers 125 recipes for all meals of the day, from stuffed mushrooms to tofu pizza, gingerbread cupcakes to pasta with "alfreda sauce," and is full of tips and tricks on how to keep your diet vegan, inexpensive, and liberated.
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 I'm in love with this cookbook July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This woman is a kitchen goddess. I am not a vegan (maybe I should say that I am a middle aged Republican with heart disease so no one thinks I am in love with the author ;^). But I am in love with this book. I have lost track of how many copies I have given to family and friends. While I have many favorite cookbooks, more meals appear on our table out of this book than the next two combined.
My single favorite meal from this book is the pomegranate barbecue tofu (which I usually make with seitan or tempeh instead of tofu -- just because she is a goddess doesn't mean you can't play with the recipes) with coconut rice. Horseradish tofu is another staple along with lemon corn waffles with blueberry sauce, cold udon noodles with peanut sauce -- not to mention the simple sides like sweet potato fire. And her scones are to live for (this is healthful food after all, why eat something that will make you die?).
The author does have a lot of attitude -- and leftist politics. If you are offended by this, get over it: the food is worth swallowing your politics (along with the tamarind sauce).
Best Vegan Cookbook Out There July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought several vegan cookbooks before this one, and have been disappointed in all of them. This is by far the best. This is not a book about how to recreate standard meat dishes with meat substitutes, but rather a book with tons of fantastic recipes that do not not contain animal products. There are a few ingredients that are hard to find, but not many, and they are mostly optional.
Every recipe I have made has been terrific. Now I need to get the new cookbook, too! I liked the muffins so much that I made three batches of different ones today. Soooooo good.
 not as advertised June 30, 2008
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was SOOO looking forward to this cookbook-after all the good reviews. My youngest daughter is allergic to milk products-and I am vegetarian... so, I am in search of good non-milk, vegetarian dishes that my meat-eating, more traditional meals, husband would enjoy so that I don't have to make 2 or 3 different meals for every dinner. Admittedly, I only made one recipe-a desert-which came out ok-although the rum SURE was the MAIN ingredient, taste-wise-not really a family desert. Then, I started looking through the book-and couldn't find any entrees that I thought he'd enjoy-I thought I'd really like them, but the recipes are not for the unadventurous.
The OTHER thing I realized, which is why the title of my review, is that she periodically uses profanity. It is not on ALL of the pages and is only in some of the descriptions. However, I was not expecting a cookbook to include such words-and I am not comfortable having a book like that in the house as my children are beginning to learn how to read-and enjoy reading my cookbooks. That is NOT where I want them to hear those words. What a shame. I would have kept the book around, if it hadn't been for that. At least I would have had some variety for my husband to eat-even if they weren't his favorite dishes. So... I am still looking for a good vegan cookbook for the whole family. This was NOT it.
 great vegan cookbook June 21, 2008
1 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
1 out of 1 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!
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