100 Best Vegetarian Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

1

The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell

5.0

The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives

The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.

You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.

More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Stud

Recommended by Ev Williams and Aimée Lyn Inhc.

Aimée Lyn Inhc

Best book I’ve ever read. https://t.co/pc68Yvw7U8 [source]

2

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger and Gene Stone

4.8

Preview Summary

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.

The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nu

Recommended by Mariana Camarena, Michael Greger, and Vegan Olive.

Mariana Camarena

This is the way I start my 2020, excited, motivated and thankful with Dr. Michael Greger for this book, a must for all my collegues around the world. Follow now 👉 @nutrition_facts 🙌 #NutricionActiva https://t.co/btEa9t0lWX [source]

Michael Greger

Sneak preview of some of the tips in my upcoming new book How Not to Diet: https://t.co/SRqYv20tqR [source]

Vegan Olive

@MiggyMoglet I've just finished reading Dr Gregers book 'How Not To Die' @nutrition_facts ..what an fantastic read about #vegan nutrition [source]

3

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

4.8

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Tr

Recommended by Louise Gray.

Louise Gray

It’s a really powerful book and I know many people who it has made vegetarian. [source]

4

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

4.7

Preview Summary

What should we have for dinner? For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can

Recommended by Barry Estabrook, Gabriel Coarna, Paul Rozin, and 1 others.

Barry Estabrook

Michael Pollan looks at food production through four meals. One is a fast-food meal, the other is an industrial-scale organic meal, then there is a small-scale organic meal and finally he actually goes out and either grows or kills, in the case of the meat, the entire meal himself. That is the narrative. [source]

Gabriel Coarna

Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" --more precisely, the first 3rd of it-- was what first made me realize how badly the Earth, as an ecosystem, is out of balance. [source]

Paul Rozin

Michael Pollan is an excellent journalist who specializes in the food domain.He proposes relying more on whole foods and less on processed foods, like Oreo Cookies. He argues that unprocessed foods are more nutritious, more wholistic and better for the environment. [source]

5

Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year

Del Sroufe

4.6

"Forks Over Knives," both the documentary and companion book, appeared on the scene in 2011 with an astonishing but simple claim: Following a fully plant-based diet can save your life. By avoiding meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and emphasizing whole, unrefined plant foods, millions of people have begun to notice staggering improvements to their physical fitness, weight, blood sugar and cholesterol level

6

Plenty

Yotam Ottolenghi

4.5

With his fabulous restaurants and bestselling Ottolenghi Cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi has established himself as one of the most exciting talents in the world of cookery and food writing. This exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from his column 'The New Vegetarian' for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, and features both brand-new recipes and dishes first devised for that column.

Yotam'

7

The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook

America's Test Kitchen

4.5

Best-Selling vegetarian cookbook destined to become a classic.

Everyone knows they should eat more vegetables and grains, but that prospect can be intimidating with recipes that are often too complicated for everyday meals or lacking in fresh appeal or flavor. For the first time ever, the test kitchen has devoted its considerable resources to creating a vegetarian cookbook for the way we want to e

8

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

Deborah Madison

4.5

The tenth anniversary edition of this landmark cookbook, with more than 325,000 copies in print, includes a new introduction from Deborah Madison, America’s leading authority on vegetarian cooking.

What Julia Child is to French cooking, Deborah Madison is to vegetarian cooking—a demystifier and definitive guide to the subject. After her many years as a teacher and writer, she realized that there wa

Recommended by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A few years ago, I got the brief to write a vegetarian column for The Guardian. I’m not a vegetarian, so I wanted to write the column as a challenge – and I must say it was a bit of a challenge. The idea of having to cook exclusively with vegetables was initially a difficult concept. To start with, I had plenty of ideas, but after about six months I realised I was sort of running out of things. [source]

9

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke

4.5

The ultimate one-stop vegetarian cookbook-from the author of the classic How to Cook EverythingHailed as "a more hip Joy of Cooking" by the Washington Post, Mark Bittman's award-winning book How to Cook Everything has become the bible for a new generation of home cooks, and the series has more than 1 million copies in print. Now, with How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian, Bittman has written the def

10

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

4.5

Preview Summary

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisio

Recommended by Richard Branson, Antonio Eram, Barry Estabrook, and 1 others.

Richard Branson

Founder/Virgin Group

Today is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. [source]

Antonio Eram

This book was recommended by Antonio when asked for titles he would recommend to young people interested in his career path. [source]

Barry Estabrook

Eric Schlosser takes apart a single fast-food meal and shows not only how it affects our health but also how the people who serve it to you are treated. He also looks at how the people in the slaughterhouses working with the cattle are treated, and so it shows you the true picture of the all-American meal – burgers and fries. [source]

11

The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York

Mollie Katzen

4.4

Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper with it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the author has revised many of her recipes to be lighter and healthier. Illustrated.

12

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero

4.4

Who knew vegetables could taste so good? Vegan powerhouses Isa Moskowitz and Terry Romero bring a brand new edition of this beloved vegan cookbook to celebrate its 10th anniversary. You'll find 25 new dishes and updates throughout for more than 250 recipes (everything from basics to desserts), stunning color photos, and tips for making your kitchen a vegan paradise. All the recipes in Veganomicon

13

Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck

Thug Kitchen

4.4

Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular web site to inspire people to eat some Goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow ("This might be my favorite thing ever") and named Saveur's Best New Food blog of 2013—with half a million Facebook fans and counting—Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their plates and cook up some real f*cking food.

14

Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant

Moosewood Collective

4.3

Since its opening in 1973, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been synonymous with creative cuisine with a healthful, vegetarian emphasis.

Each Sunday at Moosewood Restaurant, diners experience a new ethnic or regional cuisine, sometimes exotic, sometimes familiar. From the highlands and grasslands of Africa to the lush forests of Eastern Europe, from the sun-drenched hills of Provence t

15

Diet for a Small Planet

Frances Moore Lappe

4.3

Here again is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating-- one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the 90s. Featuring: simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more.

Recommended by Steve Jobs, Ruth Reichl, and Yale Program On Climate Change Communication.

Steve Jobs

Founder/Apple

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read "Diet for a Small Planet," a book about protein-rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies. It was a breakthrough. "That's when I pretty much swore off meat for good," Jobs told Isaacson. [source]

Ruth Reichl

When this book came out in the early 1970s, it was revolutionary. I feel this is a book that hasn’t gotten its due. [source]

Yale Program On Climate Change Communication

Frances Moore Lappé's best-selling book “Diet for a Small Planet” changed the way many people in the 1970s viewed the food system and its inefficiencies: https://t.co/xla4y5Nuzd via @nytimes https://t.co/wNIgZLCI9Z [source]

16

The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out

Angela Liddon

4.3

After a decade of struggling with an eating disorder and subsisting on diet, low-calorie processed foods, Angela Liddon vowed to get healthy once and for all. Done with feeling sick and tired, she threw out her fat-free butter spray and low-calorie frozen dinners. Instead, Angela embraced whole foods that made her glow from the inside out. But first, she had to learn to cook-and eat-right. Five ye

17

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

Melanie Joy PhD, John Robbins

4.3

In this paperback edition is a foreword by activist and author John Robbins and a reader's group study guide. This ground-breaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by "VegNews" Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for our consumption.

Soc

Recommended by Ezra Klein.

Ezra Klein

I love this twist on the best books list. @ConstanceGrady asked us not what our best book of the 2010s was, but what were the books that stuck with us the most, personally. https://t.co/ylK2Uq1jgi [source]

18

The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)

Mollie Katzen

4.3

This second volume in Mollie Katzen's classic cooking series features over 200 vegetarian recipes and a bounty of kitchen guidance from one of America's dearest cookbook authors. Mollie first revised ENCHANTED BROCCOLI in 1995, adding lighter, easier-to-prepare versions of her signature recipes, plus a selection of new dishes and techniques. As with MOOSEWOOD, this new edition of ENCHANTED BROCCOL

19

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

John Robbins

4.3

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examinat

20

The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet

Alicia Silverstone

4.3

In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we've been taught t

21

The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant

Deborah Madison, Edward Espe Brown

4.3

"The Greens Cookbook" is that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay. Not only for vegetarians, this book caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating. Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, it

Recommended by Jojo Tulloh.

Jojo Tulloh

Or just about Greens in general. Madison’s been running this wonderful Zen Buddhist restaurant since the 1970s, and of course the book is named after it. And the amazing thing is that it’s the first book that was entirely vegetarian and didn’t make you feel like you were missing out on anything by only choosing vegetables. It sounds like heaven on earth. [source]

22

The New Laurel's Kitchen

Laurel Robertson, Carol L. Flinders, Brian Ruppenthal

4.3

The complete cookbook and reference center for the whole-foods kitchen - over a million copies sold!

The New Laurel's Kitchen is everything that made the first edition loved and trusted, with hundreds of new recipes and the latest nutritional information.
• Over 500 recipes, ideas, menus, and suggestions, each tested and perfected for satisfying, wholesome home cooking
• Imaginative use of low-cost

23

Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals

Moosewood Collective

4.3

This is the low-fat book cooks who care about wholesome, vegetarian-inspired food have been waiting for. Each of the more than 280 recipes are as delicious and trustworthy as those in the Moosewood Collective's previous books, and vibrant flavors and generous portions are still a hallmark of every dish. Because the Collective's primary goal is always to make great tasting food they resisted the no

24

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the Globe

Madhur Jaffrey

4.3

The result of more than a decade of loving endeavor, this title contains more than 750 recipes from virtually all the world's culinary traditions--making it the definitive guide to meatless eating. Two 16-page color inserts.

25

Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Rebecca Bent, Sara Quin

4.2

Vegan legends Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romero offer vegan-friendly recipes for both classic and innovative cupcakes that dominate the baking world.
The authors of Veganomicon take on the cupcakes in this sweet and sassy guide to baking everyone's favorite treat entirely clear of animal products. This unique cookbook contains over 50 recipes for cupcakes and frostings with stunning full col

26

Love Real Food: More Than 100 Feel-Good Vegetarian Favorites to Delight the Senses and Nourish the Body

Kathryne Taylor

4.2

The path to a healthy body and happy belly is paved with real food fresh, wholesome, sustainable....

27

The New Becoming Vegetarian: The Essential Guide to a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

Vesanto Melina MS RD and Brenda Davis RD

4.2

This guide provides statistics on vegetarian eating, as well as up-to-date information on the science behind why vegetarians have an advantage when it comes to their health. Learn what the experts have to say about how to construct a vegetarian diet that meets all your nutritional needs.

28

Moosewood Restaurant New Classics: 350 Recipes for Homestyle Favorites and Everyday Feasts

Moosewood Collective

4.2

Not since their phenomenally successful Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites has Ithaca, New York's, famed Moosewood Collective assembled such a comprehensive and appealing group of recipes -- all brand-new. Crowd-pleasing fare like Moosewood Muffins, savory risottos, satisfying main-dish salads, and two dozen one-dish meals are just some of the standout recipes in this indispensable collection

29

Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock

Isa Chandra Moskowitz

4.2

The classic first cookbook from the coauthor of Veganomicon is back with even more tasty recipes, chatty anecdotes, and money-saving tips for easy plant-based cooking, featuring tempting full-color photos throughout.

Ten years ago a young Brooklyn chef was making a name for herself by dishing up amazing vegan meals--no fuss, no b.s., just easy, cheap, delicious food. Several books--including Vegano

30

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program For Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Completely Revised and Updated

Joel Fuhrman MD

4.2

In this completely revised and updated version of Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s EAT TO LIVE: THE AMAZING NUTRIENT RICH PROGRAM FOR FAST AND SUSTAINED WEIGHT LOSS, Dr. Fuhrman offers his healthy, effective and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly and keeping it off.

The EAT TO LIVE vook offers even more insight from Dr. Fuhrman with 13 videos in which he works with patients

Recommended by Dr. Monali Y. Desai.

Dr. Monali Y. Desai

I get most of my information about nutrition from medical studies. I haven’t read any books about nutrition that I agree with 100%. These are a few nutrition related books that I’ve read recently that I thought were interesting: Eat to Live (Joel Fuhrman), Why We Get Fat (Gary Taubes), and The 4-Hour Body (Tim Ferris). [source]

31

Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week

Isa Chandra Moskowitz

4.2

Recipes, tips, and strategies for easy, delicious vegan meals every day of the week, from America's bestselling vegan cookbook author.

How does Isa Chandra Moskowitz make flavorful and satisfying vegan meals from scratch every day, often in 30 minutes or less? It's easy! In ISA DOES IT, the beloved cookbook author shares 150 new recipes to make weeknight cooking a snap. Mouthwatering recipes like S

32

Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

Gene Stone

4.2

The #1 New York Times bestseller answers: What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer?

For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life.

It m

33

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

John Robbins, Dean Ornish

4.2

The man who started the food revolution with the groundbreaking Diet for a New America now boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. Robbins argues for adopting a vegetarian diet for personal wellbeing as well as for the wellbeing of the planet. Photos, charts & tables.

34

Vegetarian Epicure

Anna Thomas

4.2

A friendly informal tone and some splendid recipes have made this a perennial bestseller. For all who love the fruits of the earth and the art of cooking. A classic with almost a million copies sold to date.

35

Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

Gene Baur

4.2

36

Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Matthew Ruscigno

4.2

This is not your mother's low-fat cookbook. There's no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen meals…no fake anything! Appetite for Reduction means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)

In Appetite for Reduction, bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods

37

The Plant Based Diet for Beginners: 75 Delicious, Healthy Whole Food Recipes

Gabriel Miller

4.2

Free from animal products, full of flavor--plant based recipes for beginners

Choosing a plant based diet is good for your health, your wallet, and the environment. The Plant-Based Diet for Beginners has dozens of tasty whole-food recipes for people who want to switch from eating meat, dairy, and eggs, to eating vegetables, whole grains, and other plant based foods.

Whether your doctor encouraged you

38

Mindful Eating with delicious raw vegan recipes (AoL Mindfulness, #3)

Ms Natasa Nuit Pantovic, Ms Olivera Rosic

4.1

Mindful Eating with Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes is designed with the best Alchemy of Love Mindful Eating Exercises and a collection of Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes that aim to inspire you to eat mindfully fresh, uncooked fruits and veggies every day.

Our experienced and well-known vegan chef Olivera Rosic adores experimenting and creating the most appetizing vegan dishes, delicious freshly squeezed

39

The Skinnytaste Cookbook: Light on Calories, Big on Flavor

Gina Homolka

4.1

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Get the recipes everyone is talking about in the debut cookbook from the wildly popular blog Skinnytaste

Gina Homolka is America’s most trusted home cook when it comes to easy, flavorful recipes that are miraculously low-calorie and made from all-natural, easy-to-find ingredients. Her blog, Skinnytaste is the number one go-to site for slimmed down recipes that you’d swear a

40

The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!

John McDougall, Mary McDougall

4.1

A bestselling author’s groundbreaking eating plan that challenges the notion that starch is unhealthy

From Atkins to Dukan, the fear-mongering about carbs over the past few decades has reached a fever pitch; the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger a cavalcade of shame and longing.

In The Starch Solution, bestselling diet doctor and board-certified internist John A. McDougall, MD

41

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

Gail A. Eisnitz

4.1

With a New Afterword by the Author

Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years—particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation—have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have spoken publicly about what’s really taki

42

Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi

4.1

Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty changed the way people cook and eat. Its focus on vegetable dishes, with the emphasis on flavour, original spicing and freshness of ingredients, caused a revolution not just in this country, but the world over.

Plenty More picks up where Plenty left off, with 120 more dazzling vegetable-based dishes, this time organised by cooking method. Grilled, baked, simmered, cracked,

43

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day

Moosewood Collective

4.1

Winner of the 1995 James Beard Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook Although many people think that cooking without meat means spending more time in the kitchen, the cooks at the world-renowned Moosewood Restaurant know this isn't so. Busy balancing home, work, and other commitments, they've been cooking for family and friends every day of the week for over twenty years. Moosewood Restaurant Cooks a

44

Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes

Martha Stewart Living

4.1

For anyone new to a vegetarian diet--flexitarians who adopt plans like Meatless Mondays--as well as committed vegetarians and fans of Power Foods, here is a comprehensive collection of easy, meat-free mains for everyday.

As inspiring as it is practical, Meatless features 200 recipes—each accompanied by a gorgeous photograph—for full-fledged vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. You’ll find recipes for

45

Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine

Bryant Terry

4.1

46

Forest Feast Gatherings: Simple Vegetarian Menus for Hosting Friends & Family

Erin Gleeson

4.1

Erin Gleeson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Forest Feast, returns with a gorgeously illustrated cookbook packed with 100 brand-new simple vegetarian recipes designed for relaxed entertaining.

When food photographer and stylist Erin Gleeson left New York City to live in a cabin in the woods of northern California, she started the blog The Forest Feast to document her vegetable-centri

47

The 30-Day Vegan Challenge (New Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Eating Healthfully and Living Compassionately

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

4.1

If you’ve ever asked:

"Where would I get my protein?"
"How would I bake without eggs?"
"Is there really life after cheese?"

This book is for you!

Whether you want to improve your overall health, lose some weight, demonstrate your compassion for animals, or help the environment, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau holds your hand every step of the way, giving you the tools, resources, and recipes you need to make

48

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Carol J. Adams

4.1

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Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet

Brenda Davis, Vesanto Melina

4.1

The authors of this text explore the benefits of a vegan diet, and eating without eggs or dairy products. In addition they explain why more and more people are being motivated to become vegans and discuss the consequences of their choice.

50

Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World

Victoria Moran, Adair Moran

4.1

Hollywood celebrities are doing it. Corporate moguls are doing it. But what about those of us living in the real world—and on a real budget? Author and holistic health practitioner Victoria Moran started eating only plants nearly thirty years ago, raised her daughter, Adair, vegan from birth, and maintains a sixty-pound weight loss. In Main Street Vegan, Moran offers a complete guide to making thi

51

Passionate Vegetarian

Crescent Dragonwagon

4.1

Introducing a new voice in vegetarian cooking. Packed with 1,000 recipes that are seductive, sexy, and utterly delicious, Passionate Vegetarian covers all the bases of meatless cooking, from east (Stir Fry of Asparagus with Black Bean-Ginger Sauce), west (Talk of the Town Barbecued Tofu), from the Mediterranean (Swiss Chard with Raisins, Onions & Olives) to the American South (Black-Eyed Pea Ragov

52

Joy of Cooking

Irma S. Rombauer

4.1

In the nearly ninety years since Irma S. Rombauer self-published the first three thousand copies of Joy of Cooking in 1931, it has become the kitchen bible, with more than 20 million copies in print. This new edition of Joy has been thoroughly revised and expanded by Irma’s great-grandson John Becker and his wife, Megan Scott.

John and Megan developed more than six hundred new recipes for this edit

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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM

4.1

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, life-saving, plant-based meals, snacks, and beverages.

Dr. Michael Greger’s bestselling book, How Not to Die, present

54

The Happy Herbivore Cookbook: Over 175 Delicious Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes

Lindsay S. Nixon

4.1

Vegan chef of one of the top 50 food blogs on the Web, HappyHerbivore.com, Lindsay Nixon, gives hundreds of thousands of her followers recipes each month, showing that the vegan diet is not only healthy but delicious, too.

Now, Nixon combines some of her tastiest recipes in The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, each made with no added fats, using only whole, plant-based foods. It’s easy to make great food

Recommended by Nicole Aniston.

Nicole Aniston

@SMFKNS Check out @vegan for TONS of great info, and check out this book that got me started, and greatly inspired, to stick to it! ☮️😊🙏🏼🌱💜 https://t.co/aDqrilNkZv [source]

55

Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook

Richa Hingle

4.1

The ultimate plant-based Indian cookbook by the creator of VeganRicha.com.

From delicious dals to rich curries, flat breads, savory breakfasts, snacks, and much more, this vegan cookbook brings you Richa Hingle’s collection of plant-based Indian recipes inspired by regional cuisines, Indian culture, local foods, and proven methods.

Whether you want to enjoy Indian cooking, try some new spices, or ad

56

Super Natural Every Day: Well-Loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen

Heidi Swanson

4.1

HEIDI SWANSON'S approach to cooking whole, natural foods has earned her a global readership. From her Northern California kitchen, she introduced us to a less-processed world of cooking and eating through her award-winning blog, 101 Cookbooks, and in her James Beard Award–nominated cookbook, Super Natural Cooking, she taught us how to expand our pantries and integrate nutrient-rich superfoods into

57

Animal Liberation

Peter Singer

4.1

The Book That Started A Revolution

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the

58

Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking

Yamuna Devi

4.1

Finally back in print--the definitive volume on Indian vegetarian cooking. Created by a noted author and lecturer, Lord Krishna's Cuisine features more than 500 recipes, filled with fresh produce and herbs, delicate spices, hot curries, and homemade dairy products. All recipes are based on readily available ingredients and have been scrupulously adapted for American kitchens. The recipes are enliv

59

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!

Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

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Stop being a moron and start getting skinny!

If you can't take one more day of self-loathing, you're ready to hear the truth: You cannot keep shoveling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight.

Authors Rory Freeman and Kim Barnouin are your new smart-mouthed girlfriends who won't mince words and will finally tell you the truth about what you're feeding yourself. And they'll

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Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Treats

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero

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Don't run. Don't hide. Vegan cookies are going to invade your cookie jar, one delicious bite at a time. Join award-winning bakers Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (authors of the hit cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) as they continue their world-domination mission-with dairy- and egg-free batches of everyone's favorite treats.

Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar includes more

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BISH BASH BOSH!: Your Favourites. All Plants

Ian Theasby and Henry David Firt

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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer

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Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.

Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent sh

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The Forest Feast: Simple Vegetarian Recipes from My Cabin in the Woods

Erin Gleeson

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Erin Gleeson made her dream a reality when she left New York City and moved into a tiny cabin in a California forest in order to be closer to nature. The natural beauty of her surroundings and the abundance of local produce serve as the inspiration for The Forest Feast, based on her popular blog. Most of the book’s 100 wholly vegetarian recipes call for only three or four ingredients and require v

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Oh She Glows Every Day: Quick and Simply Satisfying Plant-based Recipes

Angela Liddon

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Angela Liddon’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Oh She
Glows Cookbook, featuring more than one hundred quick-and-easy whole-foods, plant-based recipes to keep you glowing every day of the year.

Angela Liddon’s irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for plant-based cooking. Her phenomenally popular blog and New York Times–bestselling debut, Th

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Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking: 101 Entirely Plant-based, Mostly Gluten-Free, Easy and Delicious Recipes

Dana Shultz

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The highly anticipated cookbook from the immensely popular food blog Minimalist Baker, featuring 101 all-new simple, vegan recipes that all require 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl or 1 pot, or 30 minutes or less to prepare

Dana Shultz founded the Minimalist Baker blog in 2012 to share her passion for simple cooking and quickly gained a devoted worldwide following. Now, in this long-awaited debut coo

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That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things

Ruby Roth

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That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals uses colorful artwork and lively text to introduce vegetarianism and veganism to early readers (ages six to ten). Written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, the book features an endearing animal cast of pigs, turkeys, cows, quail, turtles, and dolphins. These creatures are shown in both their natural state—rooting around, bonding, nuzzling, cuddling, grooming one another

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1,000 Vegan Recipes

Robin Robertson

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Whether you're a new to vegan cooking, a long-time vegan, or someone who is just trying to eat meatless meals a few times a week, this is the book for you. You will have a lifetime of recipes and inspiration. These delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between, are cholesterol-free, low in saturated fat, and high in fiber and complex carbohydrates. You'll get crowd-pleas

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The Vegetarian Epicure Book Two

Anna Thomas

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Here are 325 glorious new recipes from Anna Thomas, whose fresh and delicious approach to vegetables and other fruits of the earth has made her first Vegetarian Epicure a classic-inspiring vegetarians to new culinary heights and giving non-vegetarians a source of wonderful dishes without meat. Now she is back with a whole new and rich variety of dishes for every occasion.

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Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For—From Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes

Isa Chandra Moskowitz

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Omelets. French toast. Bacon. Brunch has always been about comfort, calories—and for vegans everywhere, a feast of foods they can't touch. Until now! Bestselling vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz unleashes her signature flair and ingenuity to give readers breakfast they won't find anywhere else, whether welcoming you from a late night on the town or waking you up for a meal you won't want to forget

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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Peter Singer, Jim Mason

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A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices

Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices
1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.
2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose costs on others.
3. Humanity: Inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals is wrong.
4. Social Responsibility

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The Vegan Table: 200 Unforgettable Recipes for Entertaining Every Guest at Every Occasion

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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A celebration of plant-based cuisine, The Vegan Table offers recipes and menus for every occasion and season.

Packed with invaluable tips, expert advice, fascinating lore, delicious recipes, and gorgeous full-color photographs, The Vegan Table is the ultimate guide, whether you are hosting an intimate gathering of close friends or a large party with an open guest list.

Organized by themed menus, the

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Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation

Will Cole

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A new twist on keto: The fat-burning power of ketogenic eating meets the clean green benefits of a plant-centric plate

The keto craze is just getting warmed up. The ketogenic diet kick-starts your body's metabolism so it burns fat, instead of sugar, as its primary fuel. But most ketogenic plans are meat- and dairy-heavy, creating a host of other problems, especially for those who prefer plants at

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Vegetarian Mediterranean Cookbook: 125+ Simple, Healthy Recipes for Living Well

Sanaa Abourezk

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Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet

Jack Norris, Virginia Messina

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Are you considering going vegan, but you're not sure how to start? Are you already committed to an animal-free diet, but are unclear about how to get proper nutrients? Vegan for Life is your comprehensive, go-to guide for optimal plant-based nutrition. Registered dietitians and long-time vegans Jack Norris and Virginia Messina debunk some of the most persistent myths about vegan nutrition and prov

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Chloe's Kitchen: 125 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Making the Food You Love the Vegan Way

Chloe Coscarelli, Miki Duisterhof, Neal D. Barnard M.D.

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Making waves with her healthful, beautiful, delicious vegan food, Chef Chloe Coscarelli presents more than 100 original recipes—with stunning four-color photography—that bring fun and energy to a wide range of dishes.Classically trained Chef Chloe burst into national media by winning the Food Network’s hit reality show challenge, Cupcake Wars—the first time a vegan chef won a challenge. An excitin

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Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Scott Jurek

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For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. Until recently he held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run.

In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as a champion athlete with a plant-based diet and inspires runners at every level. F

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Green for Life

Victoria Boutenko

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Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming even the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In Green for Life, raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of minerals and nutrients, greens exceed other vegetables in value. Green for Life details the immense healt

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The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook

Louise Hagler, Dorothy R. Bates

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This cookbook is a proven classic and a good introduction to vegetarian cooking. Talented cooks from The Farm, a vegetarian community in Tennessee, present a great collection of plant-based recipes. These tasty, nutritious, and economical meals are cholesterol-, egg- and dairy-free.

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Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special: More Than 275 Recipes for Soups, Stews, Salads & Extras

Moosewood Collective

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A steaming bowl of soup with fresh bread and a green salad, a tempting combo plate of crisp, complementary salads--these Daily Specials have been staples of Moosewood's ever-changing menu board since the restaurant opened its doors more than twenty-five years ago.

Over the years the creative chefs of the Moosewood Collective have introduced literally thousands of new soups and as many salads, all

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Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals

Karen Dawn

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The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick's dog fighting scandal to the incredible success of the bestselling Skinny Bitch veggie diet book, animal rights issues have hit the headlines—and are being championed by students and senators,

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Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers: Fresh Ideas for the Weeknight Table

Moosewood Collective

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Eating the Moosewood Restaurant way every day has never been easier.

Whole grains. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Lean, nutrient-rich fish. We all know the virtues of a well-balanced diet—of choosing foods that nourish our bodies and respect the environment—but as the world around us gets busier and more complicated, we also know how difficult it can be to prepare a wholesome, satisfying supper. With

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Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!

Kris Carr, Rory Freedman, Dean Ornish M.D.

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On the heels of Kris Carr’s best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and her acclaimed TLC documentary comes her new journey into a realm vital to anyone’s health. Infused with her signature sass, wit and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health, happiness and a great ass!

Along with help from her posse of

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The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

Sandor Ellix Katz

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Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt

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The Dietitian's Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications

Virginia Messina

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Using this resource, you'll make the right decisions about your client's nutritional needs and your clients will benefit from healthier, more satisfying diets. You'll gain access to information about the dietary needs of vegetarian clients of all ages as well as guidelines for treating diabetics, pregnant women and many more.

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Vegan Yum Yum: Decadent (But Doable) Animal-Free Recipes for Entertaining and Everyday

Lauren Ulm

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Lauren Ulm is a vegan cook whose star is on the rise. She hosts a popular blog that is read by more than 30,000 a day. She's a 2008 Veggie Awards winner from VegNews magazine who has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, AOL, and the hippest sites on the web, including BoingBoing.net and Etsy.com. Now she delights her blog fans, as well as millions of vegetarian and vegan enthusiasts, with thi

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Color Me Vegan: Maximize Your Nutrient Intake and Optimize Your Health by Eating Antioxidant-Rich, Fiber-Packed, Color-Intense Meals That Taste Great

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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In Color Me Vegan, author and vegan extraordinaire Colleen Patrick-Goudreau brings an edible rainbow of plant-based cuisine to your kitchen table with 150 flavorful recipes designed to boost your health and perk up your palate.

With color as the guiding principle behind each section, Colleen shows vegetarians, vegans, and everyone in between exactly how phytonutrients—the most powerful, pigmented

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Eating Vegetarian: A Healthy Cookbook for Beginners

Alissa Bilden Warham and Steve Warham

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An introduction to vegetarian cooking your whole family will savour

Becoming a vegetarian just got easier and tastier. Eating Vegetarian features 75 meat-free recipes to get you going–plus tips on how to successfully make the switch, nutritional guidance, and more. Specifically designed for beginners, this vegetarian cookbook will help you on your road toward a healthy vegetarian diet full of plant

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A Modern Way to Eat: Over 200 Satisfying, Everyday Vegetarian Recipes (That Will Make You Feel Amazing)

Anna Jones.

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Packed full of delicious, healthy recipes that are quick and easy to make, A Modern Way To Eat is a totally modern take on vegetarian cooking.

How we want to eat is changing. We want to eat food that is a little lighter, healthier and easier on our pockets, without having to chop mountains of veg or slave over the stove for hours.

More and more people are looking to include vegetarian recipes in th

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The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

Will Tuttle

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New Tenth Anniversary Edition

What is so simple as eating an apple? And yet, what could be more sacred or profound? Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the natural order and with our cultural heritage. But it is increasingly clear that the choices we make about food today are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward

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Thug Kitchen Back to Basics

Thug Kitchen

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Party in Your Plants: 100+ plant-based recipes & problem-solving strategies to help you eat healthier

Talia Pollock

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From the hilarious writer and plant-based chef behind Party in My Plants, learn to take the hell out of healthy eating

You've bookmarked more recipes than you could make in a lifetime. Your shelves are overflowing with cookbooks. Your pantry has some superfoods, but they've become super stale and super dusty. In short, you still can't get yourself to eat right on a regular basis. And you're wonder

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Vegan Planet: 400 Irresistible Recipes with Fantastic Flavors from Home and Around the World

Robin Robertson

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Open the door to a whole new world of delicious, healthy choices! If you are one of the millions of Americans moving away from meat, dairy and eggs in your diet, whatever the reason, then Vegan Planet is for you. It is by far the most comprehensive vegan cookbook ever and proves once and for all that the vegan way of eating can easily provide all the nutrition you need, and so with astonishingly v

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Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

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Finding Ultra is Rich Roll’s incredible-but-true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever.

One cool evening in October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight at the time and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he could see where his current sedentary life

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Vegan on the Cheap: Great Recipes and Simple Strategies That Save You Time and Money

Robin Robertson

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You don't have to blow your budget to eat great meatless and dairy-free meals every day. With Vegan on the Cheap, you can enjoy delicious vegan meals every day of the week. Veteran food writer and vegan authority Robin Robertson provides 150 mouth-watering, exciting recipes that cost just 50 cents to $2 per serving-hefty savings to go with hearty vegan meals.

This book presents great options for sa

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The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds

Rip Esselstyn

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Lose weight, lower cholesterol, significantly reduce the risk of disease, and become physically fit--in just 4 weeks.

Professional athlete-turned-firefighter Rip Esselstyn is used to responding to emergencies. So, when he learned that some of his fellow Engine 2 firefighters in Austin, TX, were in dire physical condition-several had dangerously high cholesterol levels (the highest was 344!)-he sp

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Essential Ottolenghi: A Collection

Yotam Ottolenghi

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Experience Yotam Ottolenghi's wholly original approach to Middle Eastern-inspired, vegetable-centric cooking with over 280 recipes in a deluxe boxed set of the beloved New York Times bestselling cookbooks, Plenty More and Ottolenghi Simple, now in paperback for the first time.

From powerhouse chef and author (with over 4 million book copies sold) Yotam Ottolenghi comes this collection of two fan fa

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The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions: Veganize It! Foolproof Methods for Transforming Any Dish into a Delicious New Vegan Favorite

Celine Steen, Joni Marie Newman

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Veganize Any Recipe with Confidence!

The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions is your secret weapon to turning any recipe imaginable into a deliciously “veganized” success—no guesswork or hard labor involved. And no more kitchen failures or recipe flops either. Simply look up whatever non-vegan ingredient you want to sub out, and expert author team Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman will expl

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Fermented Vegetables: From Arugula Kimchi to Zucchini Curry, a Complete Guide to Fermenting More Than 80 Herbs and Vegetables

Christopher Shockey

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Even beginners can make their own fermented foods! This guide includes in-depth instruction for making kimchi, sauerkraut, and pickles and then offers more than 120 recipes, using the same basic methods, for fermenting 80 different vegetables and herbs. You'll discover how easy it is to make dozens of exciting dishes, including pickled Brussels sprouts, curried golden beets, carrot kraut, and pick

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The Love and Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking

Jeanine Donofrio

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Sometimes all you need is a little spark of inspiration to change up your regular cooking routine. The Love & Lemons Cookbook features more than one hundred simple recipes that help you turn your farmers market finds into delicious meals.

The beloved Love & Lemons blog has attracted buzz from everyone from bestselling author Heidi Swanson to Saveur Magazine, who awarded the blog Best Cooking Blog

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Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul: A Cookbook

Jenne Claiborne

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100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with full-color photography.

Jenn� Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Food--fluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato pie--but thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent years tweaking and experimenting to infuse plant-based