Burton - Vive le Vegan!: Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

Vive le Vegan!

Vive le Vegan!
SIMPLE, DELECTABLE RECIPES
FOR THE EVERYDAY VEGAN FAMILY

Dreena Burton

VIVE LE VEGAN!
Copyright 2004 by Dreena Burton

Fourth printing: 2008

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Cataloguing in Publication

Burton, Dreena, 1970
Vive le vegan! : simple delectable recipes for the everyday vegan family / Dreena Burton.

Includes index.
ISBN 1-55152-169-5

1. Vegan cookery. I. Title.
TX837.B88 2004 641.5'636 C2004-902954-1

ISBN13 978-1-55152-169-5

For Charlotte, whose life has blessed mine.

Contents

by Erik Marcus

Paul, for your support and encouragement while writing this book, and for so thoroughly marking each page with your mighty red pen! More importantly, for your love and dedication to our family that enables me to stay at home with our daughter and also pursue my passion.

Mom, for your pride and joy in my achievements (and for making the adorable hat Charlotte is wearing on the cover!). Al and Doreen, for being so keen to try my recipes and make them yourself. Tanya, for being my best friend, and always being there to lend an ear or make me laugh. Vicki, Trish, Jen, and Brenda a new mom could not have asked for better friends (nor a cook for better fans!). My five sisters: Debbie, Donna, Diane, Dynse, and Dayle; special thanks to Diane for your inspiration in coming up with the title Vive le Vegan! , and for the enthusiasm you and Bill always have for my work. Also to Debbie and Donna for selling The Everyday Vegan in your fitness clubs.

Trang Duong, for sharing your Food Introduction Schedule and for the special care and attention you have given our family.

Erin Pavlina, for your endorsement and the opportunity to contribute articles to VegFamily.com magazine.

Alex Chwaiewsky and Manitoba Harvest, for providing me with your excellent hemp foods products to use in my recipe testing.

Those who promoted and supported my first cookbook, including Ingrid Newkirk of PETA, Erin Pavlina and Shayla Roberts of VegFamily , Stewart Rose of Vegetarians of Washington, John Davis of IVU, Wanda Embar of Vegan Peace , Joseph Connelly and Colleen Holland of Veg News , Christi Wymer of A Different Daisy , Stacey Foley, and Stephanie Porter.

Rosalee Hiebert, for the in-house photo shoot and your kindly, enthusiastic manner working with Charlotte.

Brian, Blaine, Robert, and Trish, the team at Arsenal Pulp Press, for another opportunity to work together.

To all the folks who emailed me with your kind words and questions about The Everyday Vegan . I value your feedback and appreciate the time you took to write me.

Finally, very special thanks to Erik Marcus of Vegan.com . I am deeply grateful for your support of The Everyday Vegan , and for your foreword to this book. Your work encourages people to eat healthier, live more compassionately, and has inspired others to take more action to promote a vegan lifestyle. I hope to have a fraction of the impact that you have had towards this goal, and thank you for all of the work you do and the help you have given me.

by Erik Marcus

Im pretty sure that Edvard Munchs classic painting The Scream was inspired by a lifelong meat-eater contemplating a switch to a vegan diet. Even today, as the natural food industry rides a twenty-year boom with no end in sight, theres a widespread misconception that veganism requires following a rigorously disciplined and thoroughly uninteresting diet. The most common question Im asked when somebody learns Im a vegan is, Well, what do you eat?

With the publication of Vive le Vegan! , I can now answer this question without saying a word I can just hand over this book. Here we have page after page of delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes that even committed meat-eaters will find intriguing. After getting this cookbook, I immediately lent it to a couple non-vegetarian friends. The next day, I heard nothing but raves about how delicious their food turned out.

As a vegan cookbook, Vive le Vegan hits the spot. None of its recipes require you to spend all day in the kitchen, nor are these recipes slapped-together affairs that anyone could have improvised. Ill be turning to this book again and again when I have guests for dinner. There are also dozens of simpler recipes included here that I can make for myself in under an hour. My favorite so far is the Cannellini Bean Yam Hummus featured on page 60; I love how this hummus tastes on bread pulled right from my bread machine.

I especially admire how Vive le Vegan! uses healthy, whole foods ingredients to maximum effect. Eating delicious vegan food shouldnt have to mean basing your diet on sweets, fried foods, and refined flours. This book captures the amazing flavors available in fresh produce, and drives home the point that health-conscious vegans dont need to miss out when it comes to gourmet enjoyments.

I think youll be continually impressed by the quality of the recipes in this book, but theres an entirely other level of significance to Vive le Vegan! Ive spent many years of my life looking closely at the business of animal agriculture. In my books, Ive shown that this is an industry that depends on cruel practices in order to enhance its bottom line. While various animal welfare reforms are achievable and should certainly be sought, the easiest and most reliable way to eat a diet that is free of animal cruelty is to avoid the products of farmed animals altogether.

Many people assume that concerns over cruelty can be addressed by becoming a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and buying free-range eggs and organic milk. Unfortunately, welfare standards for these foods are utterly lacking. And, just as troubling, these foods depend on slaughter every bit as much as their factory farmed counterparts. There is simply no such thing as animal agriculture without suffering and killing the economics just dont allow it.

Books like this play a decisive role in helping society shift toward cruelty-free eating. In our fast-food culture, people urgently need to be taught the basics of healthy and humane food preparation. This book provides an ideal entry-point into the world of vegan cooking. In these pages, Dreena proves that it doesnt take huge amounts of culinary training to learn how to prepare delicious vegan meals. Vive le Vegan! gives you everything you need to get going, all in one fun and inviting book.