Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For-From Asparagus Omelets to Strawberry PancakesYou already know Isa because she’s written many of your most used cookbooks: the Veganomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. She’s also the mastermind behind the Post Punk Kitchen and is an all around bad-ass vegan superstar chick who we all want to be when we grow up. Or marry.
And now she’s back to blow our minds with yet another book all about everyone’s favorite meal of the day, Brunch! Here’s the description:
Omelets. French toast. Bacon. Brunch has always been about comfort, calories- and for vegans everywhere, a feast of foods they can’t touch. Until now! Bestselling vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz unleashes her signature flair and ingenuity to give readers breakfast they won’t find anywhere else, whether welcoming you from a late night on the town or waking you up for a meal you won’t want to forget.
Recipes range from the classic (Pancakes and Waffles) to the inspired (Banana Rabanada) to the decadent (Pain au Chocolat) to the essential (Bloody Marys).
The book also includes gluten-free and soy-free recipes. With over 75 recipes suitable for one or to wow a crowd, and gorgeous color photos throughout, Vegan Brunch is the ultimate cookbook for the most important meal of the day.
You know you can’t live without it, so get a headstart by ordering it now and Amazon will deliver it to you as soon as it’s released on May 25th.
Vegan Soul Kitchen:
Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine
by Bryant Terry
Here’s one I’m besides myself with excitment about and I think you will be too. Here’s the description:
This is the forthcoming book by Oakland-based eco chef, food justice activist, and author Bryant Terry. In this deeply personal and cutting-edge cookbook, Terry revisits his Southern roots and offers innovative, animal-free recipes mostly inspired by African American and Southern cooking. The recipes use fresh, whole, best-quality, healthy ingredients and cooking techniques with an eye on local, seasonal, sustainably grown food. Reinterpreting popular dishes from African and Caribbean countries as well as his favorite childhood dishes, Terry reinvents African American and Southern cuisine- capitalizing on the complex flavors of the tradition, without the animal products.
Includes recipes for: Black-Eyed Pea Fritters with Hot Pepper Sauce; Double Mustard Greens & Roasted Yam Soup; Cajun-Creole-Spiced Tempeh Pieces with Creamy Grits; Citrus and Spice Pickled Watermelon Rind; Caramelized Grapefruit, Avocado, and Watercress Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette; Sweet Cornmeal-Coconut Butter Drop Biscuits; and Molasses-Vanilla Ice Cream with Candied Walnuts.
The best way to summarize this eclectic book: Alice Waters meets Melvin Van Peebles!
“Bryant Terry transforms age-old black culinary traditions into what soul food ought to be- food that sustain our bodies, our earth, our sense of community, and our desire for the delicious. For the naysayers who resist the audacity of okra or the soft power of tofu, Vegan Soul Kitchen is the new manifesto that cries out, Yes We Can give up meat and enjoy gastronomic nirvana.”
-Robin D. G. Kelley
Hot damn! Now I can try my own hands at some of this amazing cuisine that I’m always spending my cold hard cash on at the vegan soul food restaurants! Order it now and Amazon will deliver it to you as soon as it’s released on March 2nd.
Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons
by Nava Atlas
It’s cold and raining here in Los Angeles today and I wish I had this book in front of me, along with a warm bowl of soup made from any of it’s recipes. Here’s the description:
From hearty stews to refreshing desserts, Nava Atlas ladles out 120-plus imaginative, low in fat but rich-in-flavor meatless delights to suit every taste, in this veganized version of her bestselling Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons. To highlight the best produce available at any time of year, Nava has arranged the book by season, with spring soups like Leek and Mushroom Bisque and Okra-Rice Gumbo; Cool Ratatouille and Zesty Green Gazpacho for summer; savory Baked Onion Soup and Orange-Butternut Squash Soup for autumn; and hearty Curried Millet-Spinach Soup and Vegetarian Goulash for winter.
There’s also a scrumptious selection of dessert soups, including Chilled Cantaloupe Soup, and a tempting selection of accompaniments such as quick breads, dumplings, muffins, and scones.
With exotic international offerings, basic comfort soups, delicate broths, and plenty of soups and stews that can serve as one-dish meals, this cookbook is a must for vegan kitchens everywhere.
Yum! It’s definitely soup weather out here today, and this book is available now for immediate shipping, hot off the press!
I just ordered a couple cookbooks as a bday present to myself and it took me three days to whittle my choices down. I already have vegan brunch preordered but you’re killing me with the vegan soul food–now i’m prrrrobably gonna have to preorder that one too. yikes! you had me at pickled watermelon rind…
I hadn’t yet heard about the Vegan Soul book and it sounds sooo gooood. Glad you shared it!
I wish it was May already! I can’t wait for Isa’s brunch book. The cover looks so sunny and perky, dontcha think?
Thanks for a great list! I just ordered Isa’s veganomicon book, so I have some catching up to do!
The first 2 are solidly rooted on my Amazon wish list already! I have a slightly older version of the Nava Atlas book, so I’m not sure I’ll get this newer version.
I’m so glad I read this and found out about the vegan soul food book! It looks and sounds amazing. Thanks for the heads up!