Vegan Holiday Kitchen: More than 200 Delicious, Festive Recipes for Special Occasions [Hardcover]

Nava Atlas (Author), Susan Voisin (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2011

Have yourself a happy vegan holiday! This exciting, inviting cookbook by veteran author Nava Atlas brilliantly fills the biggest gap in the vegan repertoire with more than 200 delectable, completely doable recipes for every festive occasion.

 

Atlas, one of the most respected names in vegetarian and vegan cooking, addresses everything from Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas --to celebratory brunches, lunches, dinners, potlucks, and buffets. Such mouthwatering dishes as Coconut Butternut Squash Soup, Green Chili Corn Bread, Hearty Vegetable Pot Pie, delicate Ravioli with Sweet Potatoes and Sage, and Cashew Chocolate Mousse Pie will convince even the most skeptical eater that vegan cooking is well worth celebrating.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Vegans, rejoice!. . . . Thanks to Atlas, vegan versions of traditional holiday foods can be incorporated for everyone to enjoy.” --Epicurious.com

 

“Happily, those of us who like to eat and party well need not suffer. . . . Atlas shows Thanksgiving can be bountiful indeed and not a turkey harmed. Beloved winter holiday hits go meatless, including vegan holiday cookies spiced with cinnamon and ginger, mock chopped liver (cashew, onion and mushroom pate) and 'vegg' nog, thick and rich with almond milk and cashew butter, liberally spiked with rum. The spirit of the season remains but anything animal is excised.” --Huffington Post

 

Recipes reprinted in the New York Times “Diner's Journal” and Washington Post.

About the Author

Nava Atlas has written nine previous cookbooks. She has long been considered an expert in meat-free holiday fare, which is the most popular area of her website, www.VegKitchen.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; First Edition edition (November 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402780052
• ISBN-13: 978-1402780059
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #78 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Occasions > Holidays

More About the Author

Nava Atlas is the author and illustrator of many vegetarian and vegan cookbooks, most recently Wild About Greens, Vegan Holiday Kitchen, Vegan Express, and Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons. Her earlier books include Vegetarian Family Cookbook and The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet.

In addition to cookbooks, Nava also produces visual nonfiction books including The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life (2011; http://www.literaryladiesguide.com), exploring first-person narratives on the writing lives of twelve classic women authors, and commenting on the universal relevance of their experiences to all women who love to write. Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife (2009) is a satiric look at contemporary marriage and motherhood through the lens of a faux 1950s cookbook.

Nava is also an active fine artist specializing in limited edition artist's books and text-driven objects. Her work is shown and collected by museums and universities across the U.S. You can see her work at http://navaatlasart.com. Her home is in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 61 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and Beautiful She's Outdone Herself!! November 3, 2011

By Linda M. Burrell

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been using Nava's recipe books for many years. She's never steered me wrong. I don't know her personally, but she has always responded to my emails quickly and with warmth. So I ordered this book pre-publication. In the meantime, since some of the recipes have appeared on her website VegKitchen as well as some other vegan websites, I was able to test some of the recipes in this book. The recipes are made with easily obtained ingredients. The steps are simple and use some short cuts (canned beans) without compromising integrity. (Vegan substitutes for dairy are minimal and often optional; she does not include recipes for seitan meat substitutes and explains why in a nonjudgmental way.

The photographs are beautiful. The organization of the book begins with Thanksgiving (the All-American holiday) and goes on to include both Christian and Jewish holidays. She even includes both Sephardic and Ashkenazi variations for the Jewish Holidays. Unlike many writers who do this, Nava is conscious of the differences between the two and includes only one item in her Sephardic Passover section that would not be consider kosher for Passover for Ashkenazi families.)

Her sections on Summer entertaining, Brunches, Appetizers and Potluck dishes round out this beautiful and useful book. T

This book would make an excellent gift for any vegan, vegetarian, or aspiring vegan or vegetarian. In fact, I'd recommend it as a gift to anyone who loves food
My husband and our meat eating Shabbat guests often prefer my vegan main and side dishes from Nava's other cookbooks and I'm sure the same will be true of recipes from Vegan Holiday Kitchen

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic resource! November 8, 2011

By Girl on the go!

Format:Hardcover

Vegan Holiday Kitchen is such a joy. I am not a vegan, but work with several vegans in my health coaching practice. I know how hard it is for these wonderful individuals to find appropriate holiday food--food that is as fun and festive as what everyone else is eating, but still health supportive and made without animal products. Nava Atlas is an absolute rock star at creating delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes that people actually want to eat (because that's important, right?). She is also so generous with her expertise, always giving a wealth of tips and tricks and options. This is a much-appreciated addition to this year's holiday cookbook lineup. Thanks, Nava!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have For Your Cookbook Collection! November 13, 2011

By D. Wenz

Format:Hardcover

Vegan Holiday Kitchen is the perfect book for holiday cooking! Since most holidays focus on food, they can be a tough time for vegans and vegetarians who dine with omnivore families and people who are in the midst of transitioning their diets. This book is here to help!

The recipes are divided by holiday starting Thanksgiving, the biggest food holiday of them all, and ending with Independence Day and Summer Entertaining, and there's even a chapter with recipes for brunches and potluck dishes. The Christmas chapter features baked goods that are perfect for gift giving along with recipes for Christmas dinner dishes. Nava offers tips on how to plan our your holiday meal, what to cook ahead and what shortcuts you can take and there are helpful tips and tidbits sprinkled throughout the book. Each section has sample menus that you can mix and match and there are plenty of recipes that will keep you coming back to this book year after year. The recipes all use standard ingredients that can be found at any grocery store, so omnivores won't have any problems finding ingredients when they're cooking dinner for vegans, and non-vegans won't find anything "too weird" or foreign to them.

In addition to being chock full of delicious recipes, this is a beautiful hardcover book full of mouthwatering photos. It's the perfect book to give as a gift to both vegans and omnivores alike!