Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero

ISBN-10: 156924264X
ISBN-13: 9781569242643
Region: USA
Publication Date: November, 2007
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Publishers Information

About Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

Publisher Web Link: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/

Full of innovative recipes “for which even a carnivore would give up a night of meat” (San Francisco Chronicle), Veganomicon proves that vegan cuisine has no limits when it comes to flavor. This exuberant and masterful collection features 250 gourmet recipes—many of which are free of gluten, soy, or tofu—that taste even better than their meat and dairy counterparts. The cookbook is complete with menus and color photos, along with techniques for perfectly preparing any kind of vegetable, grain, and legume. Essential and engaging reading for anyone interested in the art of vegan cooking, Veganomicon is a new classic for the American kitchen.

Author Information

About Isa Chandra Moskowitz

Author Web Link: http://theppk.com/

I’m not going to write this in third person because really, it’s me writing it!

The most important things to know about me: I was born and raised in Brooklyn, I love cats and I love to feed people, myself included. I’m a cooking show addict and I also love the Golden Girls. I try to parlay my love for the kitchen into my love for social justice whenever possible. I’m a strong believer in baketivism. Bake sales, benefit dinners, or outreach via cupcakes, I believe that tastebuds are the perfect vehicle for change.

I’ve been writing cookbooks since 2005. I also do the food photography for the books and I love it.

I started cooking when I went vegetarian as a teenager. The first vegan cookbook I ever cooked from was the Tofu Cookery, by Louise Hagler. It was a really important cookbook for my family, because we never really cooked together before that. We’d make Barbeque Tofu, or Tofu Balls And Spaghetti, and it really brought us closer. It was then that my love of cookbooks began!

My friends and I also formed a kitchen posse. We cooked for any old reason: birthdays, holidays, road trips, touring bands. We’d stay up all night making an elaborate seitan roast, wake up in the afternoon and make pancakes, go to an anti-fur demonstration then start all over again!

People often ask if I’m self-taught, and I guess that, yes, technically I’m self-taught. But really I’ve picked things up from all of the awesome and skilled people I’ve worked alongside over the years. From the guy at Food Not Bombs who showed me how to slice 10 pounds of broccoli in under 10 minutes, to the prep cook at a Brooklyn restaurant where I was a waitress who taught me to slice onions – the world has been my cooking school. And sometimes I’m just plain spying – like in my twenties when when my roommate would make her secret maple potatoes and I would pretend to talk to her about some guy, but really I would be stealing all of her potato knowledge.

It’s been over 20 years since I formed that first tofuball and I’ve never looked back. I’m so ecstatic to see vegan cooking gaining ground every day, one potluck at a time. It’s been awesome to be a part of it. Even so, my mom and sister and I still make those same tofuballs. Some things never change! (http://theppk.com/)

Cookbooks by Isa Chandra Moskowitz


About Terry Hope Romero

Author Web Link: http://veganlatina.com/

Terry Hope Romero is co-author of bestselling books Veganomicon, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. Her first solo cookbook of Viva Vegan! is due spring 2010. She contributes to VegNews’s “Hot Urban Eats” column and has hosted the public access/podcast vegan cooking show the Post Punk Kitchen. Terry lives, cooks and eats in NYC. (http://veganlatina.com/)

Cookbooks by Terry Hope Romero


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