With the eating season soon to be upon us it’s not too early to start thinking about how you want to celebrate the holidays and what your menus should be. For the vegetarians (does not eat meat) and vegans (does
With the eating season soon to be upon us it’s not too early to start thinking about how you want to celebrate the holidays and what your menus should be. For the vegetarians (does not eat meat) and vegans (does not eat any animal products) among us, for those cooking for vegetarians and vegans in the ‘ohana, or for those just interested in the healthy diets check out these yummy reads at your friendly neighborhood library. Full of ideas and recipes, these vegan and vegetarian titles will get your imagination going.
Happy reading!
The 30-Minute Vegan
Over 175 Quick, Delicious and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking
By Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray
641.5636 Re
Whether you’re a vegan or just want to eat like one once in a while this is the go-to book for busy health conscious family. You will find recipes for smoothies, beverages, snacks, wraps, rolls, suppers, guilt-free comfort food and divine desserts. The book includes raw foods recipes and kid-friendly dishes and menu suggestions for every occasion. Also by Mark Reinfeld from the Blossoming Lotus Café in Hanalei check out Vegan World Fusion Cuisine: Healing Recipes and Timeless Wisdom from Our Hearts to Yours.
In the Green Kitchen:
Techniques to Learn by Heart
By Alice Waters
641.563 Wa
Famous vegetarian chef and slow food movement proponent Waters presents her essential cooking techniques to be learned by heart plus more than 50 new recipes for delicious, fresh, local and seasonal meals from Alice and her friends. Some of these techniques include simmering a stock, wilting greens, pickling vegetables and baking fruit. On the subject of slow food, you may also be interested in Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson.
The Joy of Vegan Baking:
The Compassionate Cook’s Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets
By Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
641.5636 Pa
Whether you want to bake dairy-and-egg-free for health, ethical or environmental reasons, this book lets you have your cake and eat it too. It features 150 familiar favorites while showing you easy, convenient ways to homespun baking without eggs and dairy.
The Kind Diet:
A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet
By Alicia Silverstone
641.5636 Si
The actress’s chic cookbook addresses the nutritional concerns faced by many who are new to plant-based, vegetarian diets and shows how to cover every nutritional base, from protein to calcium and beyond. It features irresistibly delicious food that satisfies on every level including amazing desserts to keep the most stubborn sweet tooth happy. You may also be interested in Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
The Maui Vegetarian:
Hana Hou
By Brian Igarta
In this encore, the Maui chef brings an array of creative dishes from diverse ethnicities to the table, from appetizers like his glazed onion stuffed with curried vegetables to entrees such as rice noodle cake with Thai sweet sour sauce all the way to deserts like his Banana Bread Napoleon. It is full of colorful photographs. Or check out or The Tropical Vegan by Donna Klein.
Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates:
Festive Meals for Holidays and Special Occasions
From the Moosewood Collective
641.568 Mo
Check out these meatless meals from the acclaimed New York restaurant. The menus of festive dishes will satisfy all guests from party nibbles to celebration cakes to food you can make to give as gifts Minimize the fuss, incorporate the rich flavors and ethnic influences that the collective is renowned for. Also look for The Ethnic Vegetarian: Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America and the Caribbean by Angela Shelf Medearis.
Rawlicious:
Delicious Raw Recipes for Radiant Health
By Peter and Beryn Daniel
641.5636 Da
South African chefs Peter and Beryn Daniel show that a diet with a high percentage of raw foods is not difficult to achieve in this accessible cookbook and guide to raw kitchen basics for American audiences. From basics like stocking your raw kitchen, juicing, salad preparation, and making smoothies to more advanced gourmet dishes. Full color photos inspire readers to get into their kitchen. And clear, easy instructions to 144 recipes encourage them to stay. You may also be interested in Everyday Raw by Matthew Kenney or Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes by Ani Phyo.
Vegan Express
By Nava Atlas
641.5636 At
Atlas features speedy savory soups, the protein trio–tofu, tempeh and seitan, glorious grains and bountiful beans, pasta and noodles, east to west pizzas, big quesadillas and wraps, salads with substance, salads and veggies on the side, sauces and salad dressings and sweet finales. See also Vegan Lunch Box around the World by Jennifer McCann.
• Carolyn Larson, head librarian at Lihu‘e Public Library, brings you the buzz on new, popular and good books available at your neighborhood library. Book annotations are culled from online publishers’ descriptions and published reviews.
