Praise for The HappyCow Cookbook
For so many years, HappyCow has given vegans the ability to access vegan food anywhere we go, which is crucial to the vegan lifestyle and sense of belonging. This book takes that mission to the next level, bringing the fantastic food we seek out into our homes and kitchens. What a brilliant addition to any chefs library!
Mayim Bialik, actress on The Big Bang Theory and author of Mayims Vegan Table
The HappyCow Cookbook is the next best thing to sitting at the table of the best chefs in the world.
Howard F. Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy
Well done, HappyCow! Heres your chance to enjoy delectable, health-promoting, plant-based cuisine from some of the finest restaurants in the worldwithout leaving home.
J. Morris Hicks, author of Healthy Eating, Healthy World and international blogger at hpjmh.com
HappyCow, the amazing website and indispensable app, has directed me toward delicious vegan cuisine in my travels and even at home for years. Their new cookbook brings exciting, exotic, and extraordinary plant-based cuisine to your own home, enabling you to re-create the masterpieces from some of the most talented chefs around the world. I highly recommend this gorgeous, inspiring collection for anyone who appreciates the art of cooking and/or just enjoys eating delicious, health-promoting food.
Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition and host of Verias wellness talk show, What Would Julieanna Do?
These chefs are the go-to connoisseurs of great vegan food, and now theyre making it possible for us to eat at home what we would have had to travel the globe to find! These dishes are going to make you so happy!
Kathy Freston, New York Times best-selling author of Veganist, The Lean, and Quantum Wellness
The HappyCow Cookbook is long overdue! I love that I can revisit all my favorite vegan restaurants from my travels from the comfort of my own kitchen! For vegan foodies who crave these delicious dishes but dont have the luxury of hopping on a plane every weekend to visit these great locales, The HappyCow Cookbook is the perfect addition to your collection so you can dine at a different restaurant every day!
Carolyn Scott-Hamilton, The Healthy Voyager and author of The Healthy Voyagers Global Kitchen Cookbook
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The happycow cookbook : recipes from top-rated vegan restaurants around the world / edited by Eric Brent and Glen Merzer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-939529-66-4 (trade paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-939529-67-1 (electronic) 1. Vegan cooking. 2. International cooking. I. Brent, Eric, editor of compilation. II. Merzer, Glen editor of compilation. III. Title: The happy cow cookbook.
TX837.H37 2014
641.5'636dc23 2013041820
Editors: Eric Brent and Glen Merzer Senior Editor: Maria Teresa Hart Associate Editors: Evelyn Hays and Christy Morgan Assistant Editors: Jessika Rieck and Vy Tran | Copyeditor: Shannon Kelly Proofreaders: Kim Marini and Kristin Vorce Cover Designer: Faceout Studio Text design and composition by Kit Sweeney Printed by Versa Press |
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Contents
Restaurants
Foreword
Ive been vegan for more than twenty years. I was vegan throughout my pregnancy, and now Im raising a healthy vegan baby boy. I am proud to be vegan and to know that no animal has to suffer or die for my sustenance. Like millions of my fellow vegans around the world, I know that the diet weve chosen is the one that reduces greenhouse gases and water pollution so that our planet can have the best chance to heal.
There are many millions of vegans, and our numbers are growing by the day, but in a world of seven billion people, clearly we are still outnumbered virtually everywhere we go. We are surrounded by friends, family, colleagues, and strangers who have not yet made the switch. They have not yet registered how much cruelty is involved in an animal-based diet, and how entirely unnecessary that cruelty is. They have not yet registered how badly our oceans, rivers, farmland, and air are polluted and plundered by the collective madness known as the animal-based diet. They have not yet registered that their diet isnt as natural as they might have thought.
Its crucial that we vegans have a way of reaching out to one another in common purpose. There is a natural bond between all people who cannot imagine seeing animals as food. We feel the need to create a communitya welcoming one that others are encouraged to join. No single entity has done more to create an international veg community than HappyCow, the worlds premiere website for all things veg.
I love HappyCow. I couldnt imagine traveling around the country or the world without it. And now theres something else I couldnt imagine being withoutThe HappyCow Cookbook. Use it as a resource for your travels or for your kitchen, and you will be even more a part of this community than you were before.
Emily Deschanel
Introduction
In 1984, at the age of eighteen, I did a threemonth trip through Europe, hitchhiking with a backpack from Finland to Greece. I had such a good time bouncing around with my backpack that, at twenty-one, after graduating from college, I traveled with my trusty backpack for another fifteen years, never living anywhere for more than five or six months at a time. I spent most of that time in Europe and Asia, but also traveled through North and Central America, Australia and the South Pacific, and the Caribbean. My habit was to spend a few months at a time teaching English, often in Taiwan, to earn and save money, and then resume my shoestring travels. I traveled to over fifty countries, and I managed to live on just a few thousand dollars for nine months a year. I loved changing my environment so that each day was an adventure. I was introduced to new people, new culture, and new cuisine everywhere I went.