Best of
Vegan

2021

Antiracism in Animal Advocacy: Igniting Cultural Transformation


Jasmin Singer - 2021
    The essayists, whose work was originally published in Sentient Media, and is reprinted with their permission, were all attendees of Encompass’s 2020 Racial Equity Institutes.Essays include:“From Speaking Up for Animals to Becoming an Antiracist,” by Rachel Huff-Wagenborg“Using Research and Data to Create an Inclusive Animal Rights Movement,” by Brooke Haggerty“How My Cultural Identity Informs My Animal Advocacy,” by Unny Nambudiripad“Animal Advocates: It’s Time We Move from Performance to True Antiracism,” by Aryenish Birdie“Oppression without Hierarchy: Racial Justice and Animal Advocacy,” by Michelle Rojas-Soto“How Racism in Animal Advocacy and Effective Altruism Hinders Our Mission,” by Michelle GrahamVideos: youtu.be/m8o7Qu2PorI

Hot for Food All Day: Easy Recipes to Level Up Your Vegan Meals [a Cookbook]


Lauren Toyota - 2021
    But let's face it--epic vegan food can take work. So in hot for food all day, Lauren collects her simplest, tastiest recipes, for the quickest weeknight meals, easy work lunches, and satisfying breakfasts.Separated by meal type, and with choose-your-own-adventure recipes for mac 'n' cheese, snack mixes, scones, and more, hot for food all day has everything you can expect from Lauren--Buffalo Chicken Crunchwraps, Spiced Grilled Cheese, Stuffed Breakfast Danishes, Tokyo Street Fries--as well as ideas for leveling up your leftovers to make your vegan meals amazing all week. With photos chronicling what Lauren eats in a day, as well as endless ideas for dressings, sauces, and other flavor boosters, Lauren proves again that vegans can eat whatever they want.

SpiceBox: 100 Fresh, Vegan Curry House Favourites


Grace Regan - 2021
    Find every one of your favourite curry dishes here, including Aloo Gobi, Chana Masala, Cauli Tikka Masala, Jackfruit Jalfrezi, Onion Bhaji, and Chana Chaat--but with one twist: they are all vegan. Perfect for a quick midweek supper or a weekend banquet with friends, curry night just got easier, cheaper, and even more delicious.

The Vegan Butcher


Zacchary Bird - 2021
    Whether you want to experiment with simple meat substitutes in everyday meals or make an entire vegan charcuterie board from scratch, this book is here to shake up your perception of plants and reintroduce you to your favorite classics.Veganism isn't about missing out - it's about getting creative, and with Zacchary's ingenuity, meat's no longer forbidden (and we're not just talking jackfruit). Watermelon? Now it's a ham. Gluten flour? Turkey. Mushrooms - we think you mean steak.Equal parts science and magic, this cookbook explores the vast world of plant-based meat possibilities. From easy replacements to full-blown kitchen experiments, The Vegan Butcher has recipes for cooks of every level, with substitutes for (almost) any dish you could think of. It's all the comfort of Matty Matheson, but vegan, because let's face it: falafels are great, but sometimes we want an entire turkey, and Zac's here to realize our guilt-free, home-cooked dream.

Enough: How changing our diet, will save our planet


Cassandra Coburn - 2021
    The PHD specifies the food groups we should be eating. But what does a diet composed of, for example, 30% carbohydrates really look like? Which carbs, exactly? The diet is largely plant-based but does encompass meat and fish - but how many servings? It also explains what the nine 'planetary boundaries' are, that our food production systems must not exceed - from the quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus in the ecosystem to freshwater use.We produce and eat unhealthy food, killing ourselves and the planet in the process. Food production systems are the single biggest cause of environmental change to the planet. And the food we are producing is killing us - more than a quarter of the world's population is overweight or obese, and deaths from stroke, heart attack, cancer, diabetes etc are at epidemic levels. It's easy to feel helpless.In 2019 a seminal piece of research was published which, for the first time, made clear recommendations for a way to produce food and to eat that would save both the planet's resources and our own health. The Planetary Health Diet was the culmination of years of research by 37 eminent scientists of various backgrounds into this question - can we provide a growing population with a healthy diet from sustainable food systems? The answer is yes.As a scientist and journalist Dr Cassandra Coburn is brilliantly placed to provide this clear, ultimately hopeful and hugely important roadmap for own future health, and that of the planet.

One Pot: Three Ways: Save Time with Vibrant, Versatile Vegan Recipes


Rachel Ama - 2021
    This is fun, fresh, simple and nourishing vegan cooking packed with taste.Make a big pot/pan/tray, then either freeze it for later, serve it up with simple assembly suggestions or mix it up and transform your dish into another - it's totally up to you! The 30 base recipes each have three ways to be used and offer a range of speedy lunches, weeknight dinners or lengthier weekend leisurely cooking - whip up a quick salad or boil some rice to accompany your base, or add ingredients to create something else entirely.Transform one-tray Peri Peri Mushroom Feast into either:1. Peri Peri Pittas2. Peri Peri Charred Sweetcorn Bowls3. Peri Peri Mushrooms with Potato Wedges & Slaw.Serve one-pot Caribbean Curried Jackfruit with:1. Coconut Rice & Coleslaw2. Caribbean Vegetable Patties & Orange Avocado Salad3. Coconut Flatbreads & Tomato Red Onion SaladA sumptuous Winter Stew can be served with or turned into:1. Potato Mash & Roast Broccoli2. Winter Pie & Garlic Green Beans3. Rich RaguRachel shares her vegan store cupboard staples, a list of what she likes to always keep in the fridge and new vegan cooking hacks, encouraging and enabling you to live a vegan lifestyle, simply.This way of cooking is sustainable and efficient, reducing waste, time and offering relief from the daily question - 'what am I going to make for dinner?' All without scrimping on taste.

Crafting Seitan: Creating Homemade Plant-Based Meats


Skye Michael Conroy - 2021
    Many of the flavors, appearances, and textures of meat dishes can be replicated from a home kitchen. Crafting Seitan offers step-by-step guidance for preparing more than 100 recipes using wheat-based seitan, soy products, and a variety of flavorings to create burgers, meatless meatballs, roasts, and every variety of shred, batter fry, skewer, steak, cutlet, chop, and barbecue under the sun. Also included are regional American favorites, as well as Asian, Mexican, and other international dishes. Chef Conroy shares his special tips and techniques for preparing a variety of shapes and textures. A special section of the book contains his personal spice blends and flavoring mixes, sauces and glazes, and even a few nondairy staples to enhance these delicious dishes"--

The Cajun Vegan Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Classic Cajun Cooking and Southern-Inspired Cuisine


Krimsey Lilleth - 2021
    The first vegan cajun cookbook on the market, this book features 120+ recipes inspired by the Big Easy, including Blackened Cajun Tempeh, Heart of the Bayou �touff�e, Chili-Rubbed Butternut Squash Steaks, Fried Green Tomatoes, Crawfish Boil Corn & Tomatoes, Jalape�o Cornbread, French Quarter Beignets, Double Chocolate Voodoo Brownies, King Cake, and so much more. In addition to being meat and dairy-free, this cookbook also teaches you how to adapt some of its recipes to be gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free. So get out your spices and kick it up a notch in the kitchen as you bring these modern spins on Louisiana's famous rustic, hearty fare into your home.

LIV B's Easy Everyday: 100 Sheet-Pan, One-Pot and 5-Ingredient Vegan Recipes


Olivia Biermann - 2021
    Simplified. Fans already know Olivia Biermann, of the Liv B blog and YouTube fame, for her effortless and inexpensive plant-based cooking. In this follow-up to her bestselling Liv B's Vegan on a Budget, Olivia is back with a new collection of 100 recipes that are tastier and easier than ever before - all helping you master cost-effective cooking. Everything in this book is cooked with either five ingredients or in one pot or on a sheet pan. You'll use less kitchen equipment and less effort, giving you more space to exhale in your already busy day.Looking to meal prep savory breakfasts for the week? Whip up a batch of Chorizo Tempeh Breakfast Wraps. Hosting a cozy family gathering? Try Sheet-Pan Pot Pie. There are lots of delicious recipes, including Frying Pan Maple Granola, Rustic Tomato and White Bean Soup, Chopped Cucumber Salad, Liv's Famous One-Pot Mac and Cheese, Spicy Oven-Roasted Corn on the Cob, Double Blueberry Cinnamon Crumble Bars and London Fog Sheet-Pan Cake. The book also includes pressure cooker recipes, meal prep and freezing instructions, tips and food substitutions - all to help you streamline your time in the kitchen.In a world of seemingly endless tasks, to-do lists and people clamoring for our attention, it's no wonder so many of us don't have the time or energy to cook. Olivia is here to help."Liv is brilliant at practical, quick and super-tasty vegan food." -- David and Stephen Flynn, creators of The Happy Pear and bestselling authors of The Happy Pear Cookbook"Liv never ceases to amaze me with her simple and satisfying vegan recipes. What stands out the most to me is that she caters to all skill levels, making the cooking experience fun, easy and accessible to everyone!" -- Cherie Tu, creator of the blog Thriving on Plants and author of Thriving on Plants

The Supremacist Syndrome: How the Maltreatment of Animals Is Linked to the Exploitation of Women, Slavery, and Genocide


Peter Marsh - 2021
    In the last fifty years, scientists have discovered how these capacities are shared by other species, which only raises the questions of how and why we evade responsibility for inhumane behavior, not only to animals but to one another.To answer these questions, independent scholar Peter Marsh examines in depth three different ideologies: ethnonationalist supremacism (the Holocaust in Hungary), racial supremacism (the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo), and gender-based supremacism (men’s treatment of women in Victorian and Edwardian England). He shows how supremacists applied mechanisms of moral disengagement to legitimize and evade personal responsibility for oppressing and exploiting members of a less-powerful group.Marsh then considers whether these different types of supremacism have common features and compares them to the way we treat animals to examine whether that, too, causes unjustified harm to members of a weaker group and is wrong in the same way racism, sexism, and other supremacist ideologies are. Finally, he asks the what we can do to overcome human supremacism and other supremacist ideologies, providing practical examples of cross-cultural collaboration, humane education, veganism, and extending concepts of identity beyond borders of culture, race, and nation, as Europeans have done by establishing the European Union.

Brotha Vegan: Black Men Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society


Omowale Adewale - 2021
    In 2010, Lantern published Sistah Vegan, a landmark anthology edited by A. Breeze Harper that highlighted for the first time the diversity of vegan women of color’s response to gender, class, body image, feminism, spirituality, the environment, diet, and nonhuman animals. Now, a decade later, its companion volume, Brotha Vegan, unpacks the lived experience of black men on veganism, fatherhood, politics, sexuality, gender, health, popular culture, spirituality, food, animal advocacy, the environment, and the many ways that veganism is lived and expressed within the Black community in the United States.   Edited by Omowale Adewale—founder of Black Vegfest, and one of the leading voices for racial and economic justice, animal rights, and black solidarity—Brotha Vegan includes interviews with and articles by folks such as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Doc (of Hip Hop is Green), chef Bryant Terry, physicians Anteneh Roba and Milton Mills, DJ Cavem, Stic of Dead Prez, Kimatni Rawlins, and many others. At once inspiring, challenging, and illuminating, Brotha Vegan illustrates the many ways it is possible to be vegan and reveals the leading edge of a “veganized” consciousness for social renewal.

Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights


Karen Bradshaw - 2021
    People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.

Afro Vegan: Family recipes from a British Nigerian kitchen


Zoe Alakija - 2021
    This is a vegan cookbook that draws its breath from the explosive colours, contrasts, cultures and flavours of West Africa.Inspired by Zoe's British-Nigerian heritage, these eclectic fusion recipes - from jollof arancini to plantain brownies - give a playful, contemporary twist to the joy-infused food of her childhood.

Zen Vegan Food: Delicious Plant-based Recipes from a Zen Buddhist Monk


Koyu Iinuma - 2021
    Color photos show the finished dishes, while comprehensive information on Japanese ingredients like seaweed, miso and tofu helps home cooks with shopping and preparation.Though we may not typically associate Buddhist monasteries with trendy chefs and temple cafes, a young generation of priests, like Iinuma, are ushering in a new era—one which emphasizes openness and a reconnection to the natural world. Buddhist monastery chefs have been creating delicious vegan dishes for centuries, and Zen Vegan Food offers a modern take full of fun and flavor.For anyone interested in sustainable, plant-based eating, this book will be a revelation—with new ways to prepare delicious meals the whole family will enjoy!

How To Argue With Vegans


Benny Malone - 2021
    

Vegan Roasting Pan: Let Your Oven Do the Hard Work for You, With 70 Simple One-Pan Recipes


Katy Beskow - 2021
    Vegan Roasting Pan offers 70 oven-to-table recipes that are cooked in just one pan – a roasting pan, baking sheet or muffin pan, plus a few select pieces of preparation equipment.From Sticky maple aubergine with crushed peanuts, Watermelon niçoise and Oven-fried nuggets, to Apple and ginger dahl, Low and slow rice pudding or a Blackberry and peach tart, whether you're a kitchen pro or a vegan beginner, it's time to let your oven do all of the hard work for you.The recipes are organized into four chapters:Light: Dishes that are simple enough for lunch, or a light supperSupper: Delicious and hearty one-pots that all of the family will love, any night of the weekExtras: Sides and snacks that are easy to prepareSweet: Bakes, desserts and breakfast ideas that are both simple and tastyWith tips for every recipe and advice on freezing and batch cooking, Vegan Roasting Pan will build your confidence in the kitchen, simplify cooking processes and prove that vegan cooking is easy, with fail-safe meals that all of the family will love.