| Vegan cookbooks are more abundant than they | | | | material. For the power vegan, she provides |
| ever have been, but the amounts pale in | | | | some excellent recipes that are very hearty, |
| comparison to the more popular western diet | | | | healthy, and delicious all at once. Mind you, there |
| cookbooks that still exist and are produced. The | | | | are ingredients in some of these recipes that a |
| beauty in The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling | | | | neophyte may have never heard of before--but |
| Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet is | | | | the nice thing about this cookbook is that is the |
| that it doesn't really push an agenda upon the | | | | exception and not the rule. If you feel like being |
| reader while providing even the newest vegan | | | | creative and doing some foodie research though, |
| with a plethora of easy to use, easy to love | | | | you will have some good material to study. |
| vegan recipes to experiment with. The book | | | | Some vegan cookbooks fall short on pictures; this |
| takes into consideration those considering going | | | | vegan cookbook provides plenty of meal photos. |
| vegetarian for the first time, those who want to | | | | Visual learners and eaters rejoice! |
| implement a vegan meal plan into their diets | | | | The meat and dairy industry information is well |
| consistently, and those who are ready to become | | | | researched and factual in The Kind Diet Vegan |
| 'Superheros' (as she calls them) and make | | | | Cookbook |
| vegetables and grains the centerpieces of that | | | | If you were to remove the celebrity author |
| diet. | | | | status from this book I would still own it. I didn't |
| The book is a quick read as half of it consists of | | | | learn a bunch of new information as I am not in |
| Alicia's vegan recipes, and the content before that | | | | the 'flirting' stages of Veganism, but the recipes |
| is soft, simple to understand but important | | | | were fantastic. Of all of the vegan cookbooks out |
| enough to make an impact. For those who are | | | | this vegan cookbook does have some unique but |
| thinking about eliminating meat and dairy from | | | | very hearty recipes that I will continue to use and |
| their diets, there is plenty of powerful reference | | | | tweak. I am glad they dedicated much of the |
| material explaining how meat and dairy negatively | | | | second portion of the book to the recipes they |
| impact our diets and the environment. It isn't done | | | | chose...I got some new fresh ideas and that alone |
| on a soapbox, and I commend Alicia Silverstone | | | | made it valuable. |
| for using a very conversational approach to the | | | | |