Michelle Cehn - The friendly vegan cookbook : 100 essential recipes to share with vegans and omnivores alike

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Praise for The Friendly Vegan Cookbook

Tie up your apron and dance in the kitchen while you cook up these insanely delish dishes that celebrate the power of plants! From the tofu ricotta stuffed shells drizzled with flavorful tomato sauce to the slurpable noodle soups, you wont want to stop cooking from this inspired collection of recipes that show that a kind kitchen should come with no sacrificeonly joy.

Daniella Monet, actress and singer starring in Nickelodeons Victorious

Eating vegan should be FUN! These wonderful dishes are a celebration of delicious food and the experience of sharing nourishing meals with loved ones. The Friendly Vegan Cookbook will become a staple in so many kitchens!

Ma, Grammy award-winning artist

There is a unique pressure that comes with cooking plant-based meals for non-vegan friends and it can feel like your guests entire perception of vegan food depends on your cooking skillsa tall order! But with The Friendly Vegan Cookbook, and Toni and Michelles expert guidance and inspiration, impressing your guests will come easy to you! Just be ready to act humble when everyones minds are blown by these incredible dishes.

Evanna Lynch, actress appearing in the Harry Potter film series

The Friendly Vegan Cookbook is the perfect starting point for anyone wanting to go vegan or add more plant-based foods into their diet. The recipes are easy-to-make, the book is chock-full of great tips, and Michelle and Toni are incredibly upbeat and charming. The Friendly Vegan Cookbook should grace everyones plant-based cookbook collection.

Colleen Holland, publisher of VegNews

Toni and Michelles mission to create a more plant-forward world is hugely inspirational. This book is packed with delicious and easy plant-based recipes that will inspire you to make kinder, healthier and more environmentally friendly food choices. The future is vegan, join us!

Robbie Lockie, cofounder of Plant Based News

Food should be a means for connection and communitybut it can be tricky to satisfy everyone at the table. The Friendly Vegan Cookbook will help you do just that, while demonstrating that plant-based meals are satisfying, familiar, and delicious!

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, author of The Joy of Vegan Baking and The 30-Day Vegan Challenge

This fantastic cookbook shows how you can be a friend to animals while also being a good friend to your human companions. Cook up these perfected plant-based recipes and share them with friends as often as you can!

Gene Baur, cofounder of Farm Sanctuary

Adopting a plant-based diet is the single most impactful action an individual can take to reduce their carbon footprint!

Aidan Gallagher, United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, North America

Also by Toni Okamoto

Plant-Based on a Budget
The Super Easy Vegan Slow Cooker Cookbook

Also Available from the Authors

The Plant-Powered People Podcast | PlantPoweredPodcast.com

Plant-Based Meal Plans | PlantBasedMealPlan.com

7 Days Documentary | 7DaysDoc.com

Vegan YouTube Videos | YouTube.com/WorldofVegan

Budget Vegan Recipes | PlantBasedonaBudget.com

Food & Lifestyle Website | WorldofVegan.com

The Friendly Vegan Cookbook copyright 2020 by Michelle Cehn and Toni Okamoto Spinach-Artichoke Dip () from Chloes Kitchen, by Chloe Coscarelli. Copyright 2012 by Chloe Coscarelli. Reprinted with the permission of Atria

Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Basic Pizza Dough () from The Vegan Table, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.

Reprinted with the permission of Quarto Publishing Group.

Lifestyle photographs by Lauren Alisse Photography

Food photographs by Zhoro Apostolov and Michelle Cehn

Illustrations by Jeanne Ee Wei Yen

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First E-Book Edition: October 2020

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Cehn, Michelle, 1986- author. | Okamoto, Toni, author.

Title: The friendly vegan cookbook : 100 essential recipes to share with vegans and omnivores alike / Michelle Cehn and Toni Okamoto.

Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, 2020. | Includes index. | Summary: Longtime friends Michelle Cehn, founder of World of Vegan, and Toni Okamoto, author of Plant-Based on a Budget, which has sold more than 30,000 copies, share 100 recipes designed to become go-to staples for when plant-based eaters have meat-eater guests to impress Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020011415 (print) | LCCN 2020011416 (ebook) | ISBN 9781950665365 (trade) | ISBN 9781950665549 (electronic)

Subjects: LCSH: Vegan cooking. | Vegetarian cooking. | Cooking (Natural foods) | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX837 .C3485 2020 (print) | LCC TX837 (ebook) | DDC 641.5/6362dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011415

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011416

Editing by Claire Schulz and Aurelia DAndrea

Copyediting by Jennifer Greenstein

Proofreading by Karen Wise and Lisa Story

Indexing by WordCo Indexing Services

Text design and composition by Aaron Edmiston

Cover design by Oceana Garceau

Cover photography by Lauren Alisse Photography

Printed by Versa Press

Distributed to the trade by Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram brand

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This book, dear reader, is dedicated to you. We are profoundly honored and so very grateful that you opened your heart, your mind, and your kitchen, and invited us in to share recipes and ideas that were created to do just that: bring people together. Food has the power not only to nourish us and bring us comfort, but to bridge the divides that separate us. Our hope is that The Friendly Vegan Cookbook will bring joy and conviviality to your table, and help you sow seeds of compassion with every meal shared with family, friends, and strangers alike. You always have a friend in us!

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W hen I won first place on Food Networks television show Cup-cake Wars with my entirely plant-based cupcakes nearly a decade ago, nobody could believe it. It was a time when