Reddit reviews Vegan with a Vengeance, 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock
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I like Isa Chandra Moskowitz and her books so much I've assigned them as reading to my students. I teach I.T.
I like Veganomicom so much I went vegan twice just to discover it for the first time a second time.
Vegan with a Vengeance is so good I read it my dog before bedtime.
I like Vegan Brunch so much I make the recipes ... when it's not even brunch.
For the vegan: one of Isa Chandra Moskowitz's cookbooks. Her big-deal one, Vegan With a Vengeance, just got a re-release. Frankly, if you could learn one of her vegan protein-rich recipes and make it sometime for your girlfriend, that could be kind of awesome. Two that I relied on a lot when I was vegetarian (and which taste fantastic): Tempeh Sausage Crumbles and Snobby Joes.
Chiming in to say that I grew up on a grain and sheep farm and went vegan after I moved away for university.
I did not see the animal rights aspects at first. For me, the start was frugality and environmentalism. Lentils were cheaper, and I knew just how much resources it took to grow corn and soybeans, only to feed it to an animal and have them burn away 90% of it.
Health benefits were the kicker. Forks over Knives made a big impact on me since I was training for a marathon. The BIG push was learning that dairy was strongly tied to prostate cancer, which emasculated my grandfather and is giving my dad trouble now (he's due for his first biopsy in a week.)
It was only after hanging around /r/vegan that I picked up the animal rights issues. Works like Earthlings and The Herd (NSFL) got me to see it as totally wrong, and dairy as especially fucked up.
Learning to cook wasn't hard, and restaurants aren't too big of a deal. Most of my recipes are: chop vegetables, saute, add spices, add beans and vegetable broth, and season to taste. There's plenty of cookbooks out there if you want to learn: I recommend The Veganomicon, the Forks over Knives cookbook, and Vegan With a Vengeance.
I'm glad to see that you're considering moving towards less animal cruelty. For me, the change wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it was, and it's getting easier every day.
Have you tried the same authors cookbook ? This sounds pretty delicious too.