Post by birukitty on Jun 7, 2016 0:06:14 GMT
Hello Vegan Peas! How is everyone doing?
Rainbow asked a question last week about cook books for vegans and specifically about the "Forks over Knives" cookbook. She said it got a lot of bad reviews for missing ingredients and bad results. I've been using that book since I began this vegan journey in February of 2014, and that has never been my experience. I've liked everything I've cooked out of that book, and don't recall one missing ingredient. In fact, out of the few books I've tried it's my favorite. It's true that there are many that make the cooking of one meal a long and complicated process. Those I avoid like the plague. Who has time for that?
I do suggest you check out your local library first before buying vegan cook books. Mine has everything online now so I can do a search first and see what books are available from all of the branches in my county. Then I can put a "hold" on a book and it will be forwarded to any branch I pick-I choose the one closest to me-and I can keep it not only for 3 weeks which is the normal time, but I can renew it too. For my library that means I can renew it up to 5 times! Renewing is easy because I can do this online too. This gives me plenty of time to try out various vegan cooking books and see which ones I like and which ones I don't before investing the money in buying one.
No they won't have every book, but it's worth a try. Also if you don't mind used books you can also try www.abesbooks.com. I've found they are much more reliable than Amazon as far as used books go because they really tell you in detail the shape the book is in. They also have a bigger stock of used books.
Debbie in MD.
Rainbow asked a question last week about cook books for vegans and specifically about the "Forks over Knives" cookbook. She said it got a lot of bad reviews for missing ingredients and bad results. I've been using that book since I began this vegan journey in February of 2014, and that has never been my experience. I've liked everything I've cooked out of that book, and don't recall one missing ingredient. In fact, out of the few books I've tried it's my favorite. It's true that there are many that make the cooking of one meal a long and complicated process. Those I avoid like the plague. Who has time for that?
I do suggest you check out your local library first before buying vegan cook books. Mine has everything online now so I can do a search first and see what books are available from all of the branches in my county. Then I can put a "hold" on a book and it will be forwarded to any branch I pick-I choose the one closest to me-and I can keep it not only for 3 weeks which is the normal time, but I can renew it too. For my library that means I can renew it up to 5 times! Renewing is easy because I can do this online too. This gives me plenty of time to try out various vegan cooking books and see which ones I like and which ones I don't before investing the money in buying one.
No they won't have every book, but it's worth a try. Also if you don't mind used books you can also try www.abesbooks.com. I've found they are much more reliable than Amazon as far as used books go because they really tell you in detail the shape the book is in. They also have a bigger stock of used books.
Debbie in MD.
