150 Vegan Favorites
J. Solomon
$11.20

Bestselling cookbook author Jay Solomon concocts easy-to-make, delightful meals with healthful, all-natural ingredients. The results are so delicious that people won't miss the artery-clogging meat, eggs, or dairy products that these dishes avoid. Recipes include: Stove-Top Quinoa Pilaf, Warm Southwestern Couscous with Black Beans, Jasmine Burrito with Refried Black Beans, Herb-Roasted Potatoes, Rice Puddings, and more.

The Vegan Gourmet
Susann Geiskopf-Hadler, Mindy Toomay
$12.80

The Vegan Gourmet provides an appealing array of recipes for appetizers, soups, entrees, and side dishes, including Porcini Mushroom Stroganoff, Curried Eggplant and Garbanzo Patties, Black Bean Puree with Fresh Guacamole, and many more! Each recipe includes a full nutritional analysis and other resources indispensable to vegans and vegetarians alike. To top it off, many recipes carry an "Almost Instant" designation and require 30 minutes or less to prepare.

The Vegan Handbook
Debra Wasserman, Reed Mangels, Vonnie Crist
$13.97

Featuring over 200 delicious recipes, the Vegan Handbook is a much needed guide for the novice as well as the long-term vegetarian. The Vegan Handbook features dietary exchange lists for meal planning, sports nutrition for vegetarians, a Vegan Meal Plan and One Week Menu, a senior's guide to good nutrition, a 30 day menu for those who don't like to cook, a shopper's guide to leather alternatives, a vegetarian history, online resources for vegetarians and more! Many delicious recipes all you to start your day off with a hearty breakfast of pancakes and waffles, wile the basics of Vegan cooking showcase pasta dishes and sauces, potato power, rice, lentils, beans, carrots, even "cooking with greens". Holiday and party fare include delicious egg-free cakes, frozen desserts, "Halloween Horrors", a Vegan Thanksgiving, holiday menus, and "Gift Ideas from Your Kitchen. Feeding Vegan children has never been easier with wholesome baby foods from scratch, healthy fast foods for pre-schoolers, and fun food activities with children of all ages in your own vegetarian kitchen. The Vegan Handbook can form the basis of any vegetarian cookbook collection.

Vegan Sourcebook
Joanne Stepaniak, Virginia Messina
$15.37

The cover-page promises that Joanne Stepaniak will tell "Everything you need to know about Vegan Ethics and Lifestyle Choices, Social Environmental and Psychological Perspectives, Household and Personal Care Products, Nutritional Guidelines, Recipes, Menus, and Substitutions, Resources, Organizations, and Publications." And it keeps every promise. The breadth of topics and issues it covers, joined with its thoughtful and penetrating review of vegan values, goals and principles, make this a milestone in books about veganism.

Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
Eric Marcus
$11.96

This is probably the most current, up to date, and concise book about veganism on the market. Highly recommended to anyone trying to convince the meat-eaters in their life to go vegetarian.

Vegan Vittles
Joanne Stepaniak
$9.56

Inspired by the rescued animals at Farm Sanctuary, this cookbook has simple and very tasty vegan recipes.

Vegetables Rock! : A Complete Guide for Teenage Vegetarians
Stephanie Pierson
$10.36

Stephanie Pierson, mother of two, has met the emotional and nutritional challenges of raising a teenager. In Vegetables Rock! she aims to help both teens and parents survive the process, ideally with sanity and everyone's good health intact. To do this, Pierson both uses and councils others to indulge liberally in tolerance and light-hearted humor. To help the family understand the commitment to vegetarianism seriously, Pierson addresses its philosophical and ethical aspects as well as the nutritional ones.

Endorsing the choice to avoid eating meat as "positive and life-enhancing," she moves on to clearly and carefully outline what to eat and what to avoid. Talking about nutrition, she cautions teens against living on pizza and junk food, and advises athletic kids to pay attention to their protein, iron, and zinc intake. A table listing specific foods makes it easier for everyone to know the best choices for protein, calcium, and other key nutrients. There are strategies for dealing with miserable school lunches (eat pasta), and advice on questions to ask when eating out ("Is this vegetable soup made with chicken broth?").

The 60 recipes come mostly from chefs, cookbook writers, and magazines. Identifying which are vegan, Pierson covers everything from what some consider the best the guacamole in New York City--from the restaurant Rosa Mexicana--to Creamy Peanut Butter and Banana Pudding, a dairy-free indulgence from Ken Haedrich's Feeding the Healthy Vegetarian Family. Everything is easy enough for teens to prepare in a college dorm mini-kitchen.

Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Asian : 150 Easy Meatless Recipes
Vegetarian Times Magazine (Editor)
$12.80

The first cookbook of its kind--a collection of recipes for all meatless Asian dishes--Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast Asian covers everything from stir-fries and noodle dishes to Thai food and sushi. Every dish featured can be prepared in 20 to 30 minutes, and each recipe includes a complete nutritional breakdown. 30 line drawings. Satellite media tour.

The Vegetarian Way : Total Health for You and Your Family
Virginia Messina, Mark Messina (Contributor)
$19.20

In this comprehensive and up-to-date book about vegetarianism, the Messinas answer every imaginable question about the safety and benefits of a meatless diet, from the perennial "How do you get enough protein?" to "What do you eat?" They address both ethical and health concerns, profile the vegetarian population (primarily female and over 40), analyze vegetarianism at every stage of life (from infancy to old age), and recommend numerous delicious meals. The authors explain exactly why a vegetarian diet is so healthy--the short version is that it's low in fat, high in fiber, and full of antioxidants--then proceed to describe plant sources of every major nutritional need. The Messinas compare the more rigorous vegan diet (no animal products) with the more common and maintainable lacto-ovo-vegetarian approach (dairy products and eggs included), and they offer a program for making the transition from an omnivorous diet to a semivegetarian, then completely vegetarian habit. This informative resource presents a strong case for the vegetarian way, a path to enhanced health and an overall sense of well-being.