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- ISBN13: 9781551522241
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In Dreena Burton’s first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which are based ont her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website (everydayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her nutritious recipes. In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food – imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals to dinner parties to casual potlucks. Eat, Drink and Be Vegan is dest… More >>
Eat, Drink & Be Vegan: Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating
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I admit, overall the recipes in this cookbook are delicious. So why the low rating? Because the author, and her editors, have committed a major, major error; All the recipes that use spelt — and there are several — are labeled “wheat free.” As an individual who educates people about Celiac disease and the gluten free diet, this misinformation is deadly.
Nutritionist Shereen Jegtvig notes “Spelt is very similar to wheat. So similar that FDA says that spelt products can’t claim to be “wheat-free” on their labels.” In fact, experts disagree on whether to classify spelt as its own species of wheat or to define it as a subspecies of common wheat. (University of Delaware Kent County Agricultural Extension).
I caution anyone with gluten intolerance or Celiac disease to be aware that if you purchase this book, do not use the “wheat free” spelt recipes as written. Continue to substitute your regular gluten-free flours for the spelt as you would with any other cookbook that is not specifically designed for gluten-free diets.
Once the publisher removes the “wheat free” designation, I’ll happily change my rating.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is not a practical vegan cookbook, at least not if you aren’t in the wheatgrass juice-guzzling, sugar-fearing, flavor-phobic crowd.
All the recipes I have tried in this book have turned out mediocre if not disastrous. The quantity of spices the author, especially ones like nutmeg and cinnamon, lead me to believe the author’s sniffer/taster is broken. A potentially good side dish was ruined by the cloying odor and flavor of such seasonings.
As if that weren’t enough, the ingredient list for the majority of the recipes really do assume you have access to a wide variety of weird “reagents,” and the lady uses agave nectar like it’s going out of style (which is over 90% fructose and heavily processed. Since the folks that use this stuff are often the same ones that go out of their way to avoid HFCS, you might want to consider just biting the bullet and using sugar). There are, of course, many other odd sugar-sub syrups, and specific brands of phony meat needed for the recipes. I could easily buy a conventional cookbook and just swap in some fake meat, and get much better results.
In any case, I deeply regret buying this cookbook, and if I hadn’t slopped orange goo all over it in the kitchen, it would be back to Amazon this instant. Alas, I’m stuck with it, but I feel obligated to warn the masses about this cookbook with an undeserved 5-star rating.
Rating: 1 / 5
I refer to this book for ideas. It’s sprinkled with clever tips which is nice. Honestly though, when I’m in the kitchen its not the first or second cookbook I’m reaching for and it kinda just sits on the shelf now, looking cute though.
Rating: 3 / 5
Her third vegetarian cookbook, Dreena Burton’s “Eat, Drink & Be Vegan” focuses on recipes for celebratory foods that consist of vegan fare perfect for everything from a romantic meal, to dinner parties, to casual potlucks, to formal dining occasions of all kinds. A compilation offering more than 150 delicious vegan recipes ranging from Zucchini Spelt Muffins; Cinnamon Sweet Tortilla Strips; Cocoa-Coconut Chili; and White Bean Rosemary Soup with Jumbo Cruton and Fresh Basil; to Cashew-Ginger Tofu; Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto with Toasted Almonds and Pine Nuts; Five Spice Almond Cookies; and Mulled Cran-Apple Cider, “Eat, Drink & Be Vegan” is enhanced with sixteen full-color photographs and a welcome addition to personal, professional, and community library vegetarian cookbook collections. Also very highly recommended are Dreena Burton’s two previous vegetarian cookbooks: “The Everyday Vegan” and “Vive le Vegan!”.
Rating: 5 / 5
I ordered this book and got it over a week ago. I’ve looked over the whole thing and I’m happy with the purchase. I’ll be trying some recipes this week. It’s a nice book and has some great sounding recipes. Well worth the money! I think vegetarians and vegans would be happy with this purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5