Jones - Kitchen divided: vegan dishes for semi-vegan households

TX837.J5429 2013 641.5'636dc23 2013000238 Calculations for the nutritional analyses in this book are based on the average number of servings listed with the recipes and the average amount of an ingredient if a range is called for. Calculations are rounded up to the nearest gram. If two options for an ingredient are listed, the first one is used. Not included are optional ingredients and serving suggestions. 2013 Ellen Jaffe Jones Photos Book Publishing Company All rights reserved. Photography: Andrew Schmidt Food stylists: Barbara Jefferson and Liz Murray Cover and interior design: John Wincek Front cover photos and stock photos: 123 RF Book Publishing Company PO Box 99 Summertown, TN 38483 888-260-8458 bookpubco.com ISBN: 978-1-57067-292-7 Printed in Canada 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Book Publishing Company is a member of Green Press Initiative. Photography: Andrew Schmidt Food stylists: Barbara Jefferson and Liz Murray Cover and interior design: John Wincek Front cover photos and stock photos: 123 RF Book Publishing Company PO Box 99 Summertown, TN 38483 888-260-8458 bookpubco.com ISBN: 978-1-57067-292-7 Printed in Canada 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Book Publishing Company is a member of Green Press Initiative.

We chose to print this title on paper with 100% post consumer recycled content, processed without chlorine, which saves the following natural resources: 59 trees 1,861 pounds of solid waste 27.800 gallons of water 13,880 pounds of greenhouse gases 27 million BTU of energy For more information on Green Press Initiative, visit greenpressinitiative.org. Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator. For more information, visit papercalculator.org. Printed on recycled paper CONTENTS , by Neal Barnard, MD FOREWORD In a world that seems to be getting more polarized by the day, individuals and families struggle with how to keep peace. Divisive politics, world conflict, and challenging environmental problems strike at the daily decisions we all must make. Eating a plant-based diet can actually reduce conflict on many levels by leading people to a more compassionate attitude toward animals of all kinds and maintaining harmony with the environment.

Ever since former president Bill Clinton went plant-based to save himself from a third heart surgery and, as he said on television, To be there for the grandkids, the nonvegan world has started to take notice. People cant sign up fast enough for immersion weekends and monthlong challenges to figure out how President Clinton and so many others have regained their health in a relatively short time without all of the drugs and surgeries that doctors usually recommend. Testimonial after testimonial from people attending vegan cooking classes and weekend health fests attest to the fact that vegan diets are saving lives. Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are often reversed or even cured in some cases when my patients eat a well-balanced, plant-based diet. While ads for many products are required to have the disclaimer results are not typical, I have found that for many of my patients on vegan diets, their positive results are typical. Ellen Jaffe Jones was a cooking instructor for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for six years before her first book, Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, took off.

I recall that one of the many success stories Ellen had in her cooking classes was about a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, one of the more fatal forms of bone cancer. The woman had been given an immediate terminal death sentence. After eight months of never counting a calorie, never being hungry, and loving all the plant-based food she was eating, the woman lost 120 pounds and is still alive and well, with good blood test results, almost a decade later. Ellens own vegan success story includes losing weight and avoiding the breast cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimers that has struck so many members of her family. She also achieved national recognition as a runner in races from the 100-meter dash to a marathon; thats quite an accomplishment for an athlete of any age, not to mention someone over sixty. As an investigative and consumer reporter on television for eighteen years, Ellen won two Emmys and National Press Club awards by exposing crime and corruption, and also uncovering a story that led to an FDA food recall.

As a reporter, she covered stories of horrible animal abuse, from puppy mills to animal euthanizing. All of this fueled her passion in her work as a media consultant with our staff. Her experiences eventually led her to do the investigative reporting job of her life: trying to figure out the real truth about the food industry by following the money and special interests surrounding it. Like many other vegans, Ellen shares her kitchen with a nonvegan spouse. She has had to pick her battles and do the best she could to navigate the social pitfalls that come with living with a family that doesnt share her vegan lifestyle, even when that lifestyle ensures better health. But she knew she had struck a nerve when so many people in her cooking classes would nod in the affirmative when shed ask, How many of you live in a mixed marriage?a reference to spouses who manage their meals in a divided kitchen.

She decided to reach out to everyone who struggles in similar circumstances. This book is a compilation of Ellens wit and wisdom on how vegans can coexist with nonvegans in their kitchen. What I love about it is that it doesnt preach. It entices. It will help you prepare vegan meals so tempting, irresistible, and delicious that friends and relatives within smelling range of the kitchen might just dissolve the mixed marriage contract and maybe, just maybe, go vegan once and for all. But if your kitchen partners arent ready to make the plunge, the recipes here lend themselves to mixing and matching in even the most complicated culinary situations.

If you live in a divided kitchen, read on. Neal Barnard, MD Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) PREFACE The journey to eating vegan typically starts with a single thought, often about how to improve ones health or lose weight. Eventually, that single thought may become a catalyst leading to many other revelations, or what some describe as a life-altering epiphany. Once people start connecting the dots between what they eat and countless other concerns, such as animal exploitation, environmental degradation, and human health, theres no turning back. For vegans, a powerful incentive to share their realizations with others is common and understandable. But when that mission clashes with the views, preferences, and lifestyle of a partner or family members, conflict is almost inevitable.

My aim with this book is to give you tools that will help you traverse a kitchen divided and maintain peace in your home and relationships. Even if you and your partner or family members never end up on the same page of the menu, so to speak, this book will give you plenty of ideas to streamline your food preparation and meals and simplify your life so you can juggle the demands of cooking for diverse needs. Most importantly, youll find recipes that will help you get meals on the table in short order, without having to be a short-order cook. In some households, microwaves have been a solution for divided kitchens. Each person can simply toss a meal in the microwave, nuke it, and be done. But its expensive to eat processed and packaged foods.