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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
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The best cookbook! I discovered Rainbow Plant Life on YouTube a few years ago, soon after I became vegan, and Nisha has been my favorite chef ever since because she taught me how to cook tofu and how to make the most flavorful dishes. 😋
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Can’t wait to try so many recipes!
I also like all the tips in the first half of the book. Lots of good info and inspiration!
I also like all the tips in the first half of the book. Lots of good info and inspiration!
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This is a great book. For a lot of reasons, full time veganism is not for me, but I would like to work in some more vegan meals into my usual meal routines. Nisha Vora has so many notes and tips that will just improve cooking in general whether you’re going plant-based or not. I got this from the library but I’d love to own a copy! She makes vegan food look so appetizing and her tips help explain the why and how of the techniques that are so crucial for plant-based cooking.
I am never going to slam a book whose stated goal is getting more people to eat vegan, but.
One of my main criticisms of widely available online vegan recipes is they can be boiled down to "normal recipe with vegan [ingredient]" such as subbing vegan butter for butter or vegan cream for cream. While this book does have a decent number of recipes with fully vegan, normal food product ingredients, many of the better looking and more enticing recipes are made with vegan butter and vegan yogurt. I... can do that myself. I am fully capable of looking at a normal recipe that has butter in it and creating a substitution of butter plus the word vegan. I oftentimes don't because of availability, expense, texture or flavor problems, inclusion of highly processed ingredients, and so on. There's even a couple pages about creating a creamy texture with a plant base and I feel like that was cast aside in the actual recipe chapters.
I am disappointed that this book doesn't really rise above the "just use vegan butter" style of recipe formulation. I am willing to concede this point if this book gets more people to try plant based meals, I just don't think I am any closer to "mastering vegan cooking" after reading this book.
One of my main criticisms of widely available online vegan recipes is they can be boiled down to "normal recipe with vegan [ingredient]" such as subbing vegan butter for butter or vegan cream for cream. While this book does have a decent number of recipes with fully vegan, normal food product ingredients, many of the better looking and more enticing recipes are made with vegan butter and vegan yogurt. I... can do that myself. I am fully capable of looking at a normal recipe that has butter in it and creating a substitution of butter plus the word vegan. I oftentimes don't because of availability, expense, texture or flavor problems, inclusion of highly processed ingredients, and so on. There's even a couple pages about creating a creamy texture with a plant base and I feel like that was cast aside in the actual recipe chapters.
I am disappointed that this book doesn't really rise above the "just use vegan butter" style of recipe formulation. I am willing to concede this point if this book gets more people to try plant based meals, I just don't think I am any closer to "mastering vegan cooking" after reading this book.
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