vegan cookbook?

July 26, 2007 8:05 PM

Help a carnivore give an office mate a fabulous vegan cookbook.
posted by azure_swing to Food & Drink (17 answers total)

I dig 150 Vegan Favorites and The Cake Scoffer.
posted by cmonkey at 8:13 PM on July 26, 2007

Vegan with a Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World are popular.
posted by lemuria at 8:17 PM on July 26, 2007 [2 favorites]

I recommend both the restaurant and the cookbook:

The Native Foods Restaurant Cookbook
posted by seymour.skinner at 8:20 PM on July 26, 2007

Vegan With a Vengeance, seconded.

Unlike most vegan cookbooks, it's not full of lame salads.
posted by rhoticity at 8:42 PM on July 26, 2007

Vegetarian Planet is wonderful.
posted by fish tick at 8:46 PM on July 26, 2007

I'm an unabashed omnivore, but I love La Dolce Vegan.
posted by padraigin at 8:51 PM on July 26, 2007

I'm a fan of the Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen and the Voluptuous Vegan.
posted by AV at 9:09 PM on July 26, 2007

The Rebar cookbook. Some recipes with eggs and cheese, but a considerable number of vegan recipes. I quite like it.
posted by solid-one-love at 11:21 PM on July 26, 2007

Vegan Vittles. As a non-vegan, it got me interested in cooking, not just vegan cooking, because it had so many vegan meat and cheese recipes (later expanded upon in The Uncheese Cookbook). Lots of truly original and hearty dishes. There's nothing else like it. The only problem might be that if your office mate is vegan, they should already have it.
posted by team lowkey at 12:22 AM on July 27, 2007

VEGAN CUPCAKES! VEGAN CUPCAKES! VEGAN CUPCAKES!

I'm a carnivore and I gave that book to my vegan-eating-PETA-working friend and she LoveLoveLoved it!
posted by santojulieta at 1:37 AM on July 27, 2007

Third Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Only because you might reap the benefits of being a taste tester.

However, it's not used as frequently as Vegan with a Vengeance.
posted by thehmmhmm at 2:32 AM on July 27, 2007

I love/like many of the books mentioned above, but as a present, I would go with Vegan Cupcakes as well.
posted by davar at 4:55 AM on July 27, 2007

I use the vegan cupcakes one all the time, and I am not a vegan, nor are most of the people I serve them to. That chocolate cupcake recipe is amazing.
posted by leesh at 5:12 AM on July 27, 2007

I like the older Vegetarian Times cookbooks, which have lots of vegan recipes.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 7:00 AM on July 27, 2007

It isn't a strictly vegan cookbook, and its name might turn off some vegans, but it shouldn't. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, by Deborah Madison, is vast and encyclopedic, has loads upon loads of vegan recipes, includes details on cooking every variety of vegetable and fruit, and is probably the best cookbook that I've ever owned.
posted by koeselitz at 7:09 AM on July 27, 2007

nth recommendation for Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. I gave it to some very good friends of mine last year and they still can't stop talking about how wonderful it is.
posted by mjones at 7:22 AM on July 27, 2007

Sinfully Vegan is full of the most fabulous dessert recipes I have ever had, vegan or not.

I am also rather fond of The Uncheese Cookbook.
posted by trishthedish at 8:33 PM on July 27, 2007