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Eva Batts Vegan Cooking

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This is a new edition of a book first written in the 1960s. In England. While it is certainly of interest to those curious about the history of "the vegan movement," the recipes should be avoided. I'm not sure why I bought this book, I think in those giddy first days of becoming vegan I just grabbed everything that had vegan in the title. If you see it in a library some time you may want to pick it up, just so you can see how far vegan cooking has progressed.

I never found anything good in this book. I have it in the "donation" pile. Many of the recipes are vague--"add seasonings of your choice" is in far too many recipes. I hate that, a few variables or range of quantity is fine but expecting the reader to intuitively choose flavorings for a recipe he/she has not tried is both ridiculous and useless. There are also a lot of lazy recipes thrown in here apparently just to take up space, for example numerous mundane variations on the "seasoned potatoes baked in the oven" theme.

A decent alternate is "The Single Vegan." It has weekly schedules of recipes, but you don't have to follow them if you don't want to. The directions are clear and the recipes are easy, yet well-thought out.

This cook book is somewhat hard to follow. The measurements are in British metrics, so you almost have to get out a calculator to do the math. The book also gives recipes that involve a lot of hard to find ingriedients, and vegetables that are obscelete even in the finest American super markets. The instructions will at times lose a reader. I have found a few worth while recipes in this book and really reccomend the potato and onion soup!

I learned a great deal from this book. Was very helpful!