The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus [Paperback]

Bryant Terry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 24, 2012

From the author of Vegan Soul Kitchen: ingredients that inspire, unique recipes, and menus for everyday feasts.

 

Marking his 10-year anniversary working to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system, Bryant Terry offers more than just a collection of recipes. In the spirit of jazz jam sessions and hip hop ciphers, The Inspired Vegan presents a collage of food, storytelling, music, and art. Bryant shares his favorite preparation / cooking techniques and simple recipes—basics to help strengthen your foundation for home cooking and equip you with tools for culinary improvisation and kitchen creativity. He also invites you to his table to enjoy seasonal menus inspired by family memories, social movements, unsung radical heroes, and visions for the future. Ultimately, The Inspired Vegan will help you become proficient in creating satisfying meals that use whole, fresh, seasonal ingredients and are nutritionally balanced—and full of surprising, mouthwatering flavor combinations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Props for Bryant Terry:

The New York Times
“This young food activist make Southern cooking healthy and cool.”

Alice Waters, chef, author, and proprietor of Chez Panisse
“Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.”

 

Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved, October 16, 2011
“Bryant Terry is a culinary muse unlike any other. His great gift is to reconnect us with the radical joy that food brings, making inspired vegans out of us all.”

 

Adam Mansbach, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F*ck to Sleep, October 17, 2011
“Bryant Terry’s funky, flavorful cuisine is remixing our diets—he’s the Pete Rock of collard greens. This is more than a cookbook; it’s a call to action, a recipe for a more just and delectable world.”

 

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, coauthor of Veganomicon, November 2, 2011
"Bryant Terry's recipes manage the impossible: everyday cooking that is approachable and homey, yet always creative, flavorful and never mundane."

 

JET Magazine, 1/23/12
“The book is overflowing with great entrée ideas”

 

VegNews
“[Terry’s] “best book yet.”

About the Author

Bryant Terry is an award-winning chef and food justice activist. He is the author of Vegan Soul Kitchen, and coauthor of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen with Anna Lappé. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books (January 24, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738213756
• ISBN-13: 978-0738213750
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Natural Foods
  • #27 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Occasions
  • #100 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Vegetables & Vegetarian

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bryant Terry does it again! Fresh, vegan, delicious!, January 10, 2012

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j star (bay area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus (Paperback)

The Inspired Vegan lives up to its name. This book is full of simple, great tasting recipes that creatively remix food from the African diaspora, Asian, and other food traditions. Each menu has a drink, sides, entrees, and dessert! What a great way to plan dinner parties and meals. I've tried several of these menus all the way through and they are incredible. My favorite dishes so far are rice wine poached asian pears, jerk tempeh with cilantro sauce (this jerk sauce is seriously the best I've had - and could be put on anything), Mexican chocolate pudding, and wet jollof rice with carrots, cabbage, and parsley-garlic paste. Yum yum yum!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspires the palate, nourishes the soul, builds the community!, January 13, 2012

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Matthew C. Halteman (Grand Rapids, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus (Paperback)

The word "cookbook" simply doesn't capture the multivalent wonder that is Bryant Terry's *The Inspired Vegan*. This book is better described as a manifesto on how to re-imagine the growing, preparing, and eating of creative, nourishing, compassionate food as transformative activities that propel us toward individual and communal flourishing. Expect to be dazzled as you leaf through his gorgeous recipes that are somehow still simple to prepare, his micro-essays that expose the intertwined oppressions of animal exploitation and institutional racism without a whiff of self-importance, and his selection of musical accompaniments that enable one to hit that kitchen-prep groove without ever losing sight of the fact that eating is always already a political act--that the autonomy that one realizes (or does not realize) through good cooking is a big part of the difference between striving and barely surviving in someone else's system and experiencing material and spiritual fulfillment on one's own terms. Here is the work of a rare and true philosopher--a person who has found a way to materialize our best ideas into the lived pursuit of wisdom in our daily lives. In crafting this exciting, unpredictable, bracing bricolage of food, wisdom, music, beauty, compassion, and justice, Bryant Terry mobilizes six of life's most compelling forces toward the end of lifting creatures up in the everyday--one and all, human beings, animals, and the planet. Astounding!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids Tested! Parents Approve!, February 11, 2012

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Kali Fields Williams (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus (Paperback)

Quite simply, this book is gooood! Tonight I made the Roasted Winter Vegetable Jambalaya and Wilted Dandelion Greens with Hot Garlic Dressing and Garlic Chips (The Savory Grits and the Garlic-Braised Gai Laan are on deck for tomorrow!). Test of success? Getting new food past my finicky little ones. Verdict? They loved it!

As a homeschooler, I was particularly thrilled by the learning presented in 'The Inspired Vegan'. Yes you can learn new and delicious recipes (Recipes which actually work, by the way). But you can also learn a bit about seasonal eating, about other political and food activists and about ideas around community building. I love the addition of like-minded websites following each mini-chapter. And the suggested music and book recos!

Seriously, 'The Inspired Vegan' could serve not only as an awesome cookbook, but also as a fantastic resource for teachers and students alike! Bravo Mr. Terry!