Vegan Soul Kitchen

Description

The mere mention of soul food brings thoughts of greasy fare and clogged arteries. Bryant Terry offers recipes that leave out heavy salt and refined sugar, bad fats, and unhealthy cooking techniques, and leave in the down-home flavor. Vegan Soul Kitchen recipes use fresh, whole, high-quality, healthy ingredients and cooking methods with a focus on local, seasonal, sustainably raised food. Terrys new recipes have been conceived through the prism of the African Diaspora-cutting, pasting, reworking, and remixing African, Caribbean, African-American, Native American, and European staples, cooking techniques, and distinctive dishes to create something familiar, comforting, and deliciously unique. Reinterpreting popular dishes from African and Caribbean countries as well as his favorite childhood dishes, Terry reinvents African-American and Southern cuisine-capitalizing on the complex flavors of the tradition, without the animal products. Includes recipes for: Double Mustard Greens & Roasted Yam Soup; Black-Eyed Pea Fritters with Hot Pepper Sauce; Caramelized Grapefruit, Avocado, and Watercress Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette; BBQ Tempeh Sandwiches with Carrot-Cayenne Coleslaw; Citrus Collards with Raisins; Jamaican Patties with Sweet Coconut-Ginger Creamed Corn; Soul On Ice Pops, and more. ;

Reviews

Winner of Treehugger's Green Award for Best Cookbook of 2010 (4/9/10)

Named a "Top Ten Vegan Cookbook" by "VegNews," July/August 2010
Alice Waters
"Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege. This book is full of easy, tasty, seasonal recipes that also happen to be vegan and affordable!"

John Robbins, author "The Food Revolution" and "Diet for a New America"
"Do you think a commitment to healthy eating means enduring bland and boring food? "Vegan Soul Kitchen" will not only show you otherwise, but will make it easy for you to create fabulously delicious and exotic dishes. Here's proof that natural foods can be fascinating and sensuous. Here are recipes you will enjoy using time and again."

Heidi Swanson, author of "Super Natural Cooking," publisher of 101Cookbooks.com
"From gumbo to grits, goobers to greens, Vegan Soul Kitchen dispels the notion that great tasting soul food has to be bad for you. This is a beautiful bo