Vegetarian Cookbooks Can Reduce The Threat Of Climate Change…
Posted by admin on Feb 23, 2010
Will the threat of climate change prompt you to change your eating habits? If so you will need to a few good Vegetarian Cookbooks. The UK’s Food Climate Research Network suggests that food production from farm to fork is responsible for between 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions and livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. Therefore the more meat we produce and eat the bigger that carbon footprint will get.
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded that the livestock sector is ‘one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global’. So if we want to build a better world in the future we all need to make changes in our lifestyles now. By making just one change in the way we eat and making one day a week a meat-free day can make a really big difference to the environment. For instance, the group Compassion in World Farming estimates that if the average UK household halved its consumption of meat this would cut more emissions than if car use was cut in half. By making a simple change in the way you eat, you can change the future well-being of our planet. It really is a cash of what’s good for you is also good for the planet.
Therefore I encourage you to support Sir Paul McCartney with his “Meat Free Monday” Campaign to tackle climate change. But to do so you will need dust of those vegetarian cookbooks or go buy some new vegetarian cookbooks. Like many of us you will be aware of the urgent need to reduce global CO2 emissions in order to slow the rate of climate change and protect the environment. The scale of the problems we face can make many of us feel helpless, and yet each of us has the power to make changes in our lives that can have a meaningful impact on the future. So join Sir Paul McCartney in is campaign by going vegetarian at least once a week on Mondays to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to combat climate change.
Here are a few suggestions for vegetarian cookbooks to help you get started…
1. The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
2. How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
Vegetarian Cookbooks For Teen’s
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2010
Getting teenagers to eat healthy meals isn’t always easy and vegetarian teens are no exception. The Teen’s Vegetarian Cookbook by Judy Krizmanic provides a good selection of nutritious recipes that will appeal to vegetarian teenagers and the whole family. A lot of vegetarian cookbooks make being vegetarian a complicated thing, but this book just gets to the point. Its a great vegetarian cookbook with great recipes and tips for new vegetarians.
The recipes are split into chapters by meals – breakfast, lunch and dinner – making it so easy to find a meal to eat or a dish for a get together. There are also chapters for soups, desserts and college cuisine. The recipes can all be made vegan or vegetarian depending on the Teens choice. If there’s a recipe that has some form of dairy product in it: cheese or milk, there is always an alternative listed. For example use crumbled tofu instead of feta cheese orsoymilk instead or milk from cows. As far as the recipes themselves, there are the classics. Like pasta primavera, Mighty Minestrone soup, and traditional picnic potato salad, but there are also more cultural selections such as Tabouli, Baba Ganouj, and mango salsa.
If you are a mom with teens the I highly recommend getting a copy of this book because there are not many good Vegetarian Cookbooks suited to vegetarian teens. You will not go broke having to stock your pantry after buying this book because you will probably have most of the staple ingredients already in your kitchen. If you are a college student who works two jobs and has a tight budget, then this vegetarian cookbook is a goldmine! Every recipe is easy to make and the ingredients are easy to substitute for vegan meals. It is an awesome book for those on a time and budget limit!
Unlike other vegetarian cookbooks the size of this vegetarian cookbook is just right, its not to big that it’s overwhelming, but it’s not to small that it’s limited. It’s perfectly organized and easy to navigate. There are really nice charts to help you figure out how to get all of the important daily nutrients you need and to ensure you don’t become anemic or get porous bones etc. It talks about meat-alternatives that you most likely would never have found out about on your own.
If you didn’t like tofu before buying this book you will love it after buying it. The recipes are so good. The marinated tofu is really something and lot of the recipes actually taste better than some of the fancy vegetarian cookbooks available. This is a great vegetarian cookbook that gives you the confidence you need to eat a well balanced vegetarian diet.
The Funkiest And Coolest Of Vegetarian Cookbooks
Posted by admin on Feb 22, 2010
Of all the vegetarian cookbooks, this would have to be one of the funkiest. If you like eating tasty food as much as I do, then this vegetarian cookbook filled with 250 delectable recipes and featuring the simple cooking techniques of the Veganomicon. (Which is to say, the authors shall help you transform edible roots, shoots, leaves and fruits from an array of plants with critically applied heat, oils, and seasonings, so that they will be eaten with great pleasure and the least amount of complaining.)
The book include menus for all occasions, plus many soy-free, gluten-free, and low-fat recipes. And if you’re terribly busy and require dinner in a pinch, a great deal of the recipes are of the under 45 minute variety. Some even take less than 15 minutes to prepare!
The authors Terry Hope Romero and Isa Chandra Moscowitz are have a few bestselling vegetarian cookbooks under their belt – Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar and now Veganomicon. Jessica Alba featured Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World in her Seven Secrets for a Fast Slimdown. Isa and Terry won US VegNews’s Best Vegan Cookbook Authors award three years in a row. They hosted the public access vegan cooking show The Post Punk Kitchen and were featured in the New York Times and on US Public Radio. Terry is a columnist for VegNews’s Hot Urban Eats, has made appearances and lead seminars at vegetarian food conferences across North America.
The first part of this book is very funny and practical, very few vegetarian cookbooks show you how to cut and prepare different vegetables, how to cook different grains, etc. That type of information is invaluable for someone just starting out. It is pretty invaluable stuff. From the fast number of Vegetarian Cookbooks you can buy this one would have to definitely be coolestof them all and if you have a “weird” vegan kid that is just learning to cook, this is the book to get them.
After you make the “Black Bean Burgers”, you will never buy packaged veggie burgers again! The “Leek and Bean Cassoulet with Biscuits” is also amazing. There are beautiful photographs throughout the book and the authors style of writing capture you, fascinate you, and make you excited to try each and every recipe that they have created. The greatest thing about this vegetarian cookbook is that you will never have to feel the usual nervousness that comes with serving a guest a new recipe you have just made because all the recipes in this book work and taste out of this world. You can have confidence in this book, a confidence that sometimes does not exist when trying other recipes in other vegetarian cookbooks.
Vegetarian Cookbooks – Just show me the recipes
Posted by admin on Feb 20, 2010
Because I have been vegetarian for 19yrs and have eaten that way all that time, Vegetarian Cookbooks that spend a great deal of time and space on how to be a vegetarian don’t interest me that much anymore. I understand there is a place for cookbooks that educate the many who are becoming more conscious and commencing their journey to being vegetarian, and I think thats good. I like it when authors just get on with showing me recipes. Now days Vegetarian cookbooks for me are more about being an inspirational reference for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I like a good index, it is the key to a useful vegetarian cookbook. Recipes need to be listed by more than just the name of the dish. French Fries need to be listed under “F” for French Fries as well as “P” for potatoes. By listing recipes under their name and the main vegetable, vegetarian cookbooks then help a cook or chef searching for something to make with the fresh seasonal produce they just picked from the garden or purchased from the local farmers market. It also helps at the end of the week when you are wondering how to use up the left over vegetables in the fridge.
I also like reading short notes in vegetarian cookbooks about where the author found the inspiration for the dish. I think it personalizes the cookbook and makes a very interesting read.
What Vegetarian Cookbooks Must Have to Make them Great…
Posted by admin on Feb 19, 2010
Vegetarian Cookbooks are the door to a world of health, happiness and pure culinary bliss. Whether you are vegetarian looking for new inspiration or someone on your journey to living healthier by adding more fruit and vegetables to your day, then vegetarian cookbooks will provide you with everything you need. Vegetarian cooks and chefs draw their inspiration from the vast variety of vegetable, fruits, nuts, seeds and spices from around the world. The combination of these ingredients and cultures create a great foundation for endless flavors and interesting recipes for you to enjoy.
In order for vegetarian cookbooks to be great I believe they need to have four very important ingredients…
1. Large colorful photos of the finished recipes – I don’t know about you but one of my favorite past times is laying around on the sofa or a deck chair and flicking through Vegetarian Cookbooks and magazine looking at photos and getting inspired to cook one that looks great.
2. Measurements in cups and spoons as opposed to weights – nothing frustrates me more than going to cook a recipe and having to weigh 10g of this and 100g of that. I find it so much easier when recipes say 1 cup of flour or 1/2 cup of Tahini or a handful of broccoli.
3. Small ingredients lists – I love cooking and I do enjoy cooking elaborate recipes but most of the time I want recipes that can be cooked with the least amount of time and fuss. I love vegetarian cookbooks that have recipes with ingredient lists of no more than 10 ingredients, preferable with just 6, and quick and easy steps in the cookery method.
4. Breakfast, lunch/dinner and sweets – I’m not into entree, starters, mains and desert type vegetarian cookbooks. I’m about being practical, we eat breakfast lunch and dinner every day and most of us have a sweet tooth so I like vegetarian cookbooks that have a table of contents categorized into breakfast, lunch/dinner (most vegetarian meals can be either lunch or dinner) and sweets.
I also like vegetarian cookbooks that are categorized into seasons. After all, that is the way nature intended us to eat. Fresh seasonal produce is the healthiest and most environmental way to eat.
