Colleen Patrick-Goudreau - Color me vegan: maximize your nutrient intake and optimize your health by eating antioxidant-rich, fiber-packed, color-intense meals that taste great

As with the colors in a rainbow, veganisms rewards are infinite and represent the ultimate pot of gold for the billions of land and sea animals who endure the daily thunderstorms wrought by our species. In Color Me Vegan, these colors come alive by offering a palette of possibilities for your personal health, for the revival of our planet, and for the now more easily than ever colorfully ethical choices you can make three times a day. Joseph Connelly, Publisher, VegNews Magazine Colleen Patrick-Goudreaus recipes are delicious and healthy; but most of all, they are designed with kindness and peace in mindthe very best kind of food for body and soul! Kathy Freston, best-selling author of The Quantum Wellness CleanseColor Me Vegan is a testament to what truly great cuisine is all about: healthful, wholesome ingredients, chosen not only for the pleasure it will give but for the compassion it embodies. Tal Ronnen, author of The Conscious Cook Colleen has pulled out the stops with Color Me Vegan. This beautiful and informative book contains a treasure trove of plant-delicious recipes. I feel healthier and more energized just looking at this book! Rip Esselstyn, bestselling author of The Engine 2 Diet Blending the latest science on phytonutrients with enticing photos and recipes, this book illumines the many benefits of a cruelty-free kitchen from a fascinating angle: creating artistic dishes based on color.

A terrific how-to guide to healthy, delicious, and visually-appealing meals, Color Me Vegan could change forever the way you think about food. Dr. Will Tuttle, pianist, composer, former Zen monk, author of The World Peace Diet, and a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award In a world awash in vegan cookbooks, Colleen has come up with another standout that is unique, fun, informative, and compelling! Matt Ball, Executive Director of Vegan Outreach and co-author of The Animal Activists Handbook

COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU Author of The Vegan Table and the award-winning The Joy of Vegan BakingMaximize Your Nutrient Intake and Optimize Your Health by Eating Antioxidant-Rich, Fiber-Packed, Color-Intense Meals That Taste GreatTo Simon Pieman
You brought color, life, and light into this world, and it was with dignity, grace, and beauty that you left it. You are sorely missed and fiercely loved. In the work I do guiding people toward a way of eating that reflects their own compassion and desire for health, I am blessed to hear from countless people whose lives have been transformed. One of the most gratifying responses I receive is from people whove discovered my work because of their interest in eating healthier but who then find that they become open to their compassion for animals.

On the flip side, I also hear from people who find my work because of their compassion for animals but who learn to eat healthier. Its so gratifying to fill both these needs. When it comes to living ethically, my message is simple: live according to your own values of kindness and compassion. When it comes to my message of eating healthfully, my message is equally simple: eat by color. It really is that easy. When shopping at the grocery store or farmers market, fill your baskets with color.

And when I say color, I mean naturally occurring colornot artificial color, not color on a flashy cereal box. I mean the variety of color we admire when walking through a flower garden or strolling through a farmers market or when imagining an autumn cornucopia. I mean the color in plants. And the healing power of these plants is found in their color.

Not that I would do it any other way, but in truth, it would be impossible to write a book on the healthful aspects of colorful foods and include animal products in the form of meat, fish, dairy, or eggs. The only way to authentically write a cookbook that emphasizes the benefits of eating by color is to write a vegan cookbook.

The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiberall of the healthful components of plant foodsoriginate in plants, not animals. Let me repeat: phytochemicals/phytonutrients (phyto, after all, means plant), antioxidants, and fiber originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

And so with the intention of making it as easy as possible to center your diet around color, I am thrilled to bring you Color Me Vegan. Every recipe in this book is guided by color, which enabled me to emphasize the whys and wherefores of eating by color, to encourage you to expand your edible color palette, and to help you increase your health by offering recipes based on nutrient-dense foods. In other words, the organization of this book is meant to raise the bar and give you everything you need to eat consciously, compassionately, and creatively.

Although it was easy to craft so many recipes based on the hundreds of edible plant foods available to us, I made a point to provide as much variety as possible. I also made a conscious effort to keep the recipes simple and the ingredients familiar. I mention some foods that might seem more exotic (purple potatoes, blue cornmeal, and white asparagus), but the fact is these ingredients are more available than ever before in such places as farmers markets, large natural food stores, and online. But because Im conscious of ingredients that might be harder to find, I always let you know that the more familiar version may be used in its stead (red potatoes, yellow cornmeal, or green asparagus, respectively). My hope is that these recipes will help you make nutrient-rich, flavor-dense, aesthetically exciting food choices and that they reflect the abundance of healthful, compassionate options we can make every time we eat.

If weve heard it once, weve heard it a thousand times: eat your vegetables! From the day we moved on to solid foods until the day we moved out of the house, we heard this culinary command at least three times a day.

Yet at some point, we tuned it out. A new study confirms this: Americans are eating fewer vegetables than ever. Researchers evaluated data from two large national health surveys and reviewed how many people ate three or more servings of vegetables a day (french fries counted!). In the first survey, 35 percent met the goal; in the second survey, ten years later, only 32 percent did. And as many as 50 percent of Americans dont eat a piece of fruit all day long.

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