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My Vegan Year by Niki Webster

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With a title like My Vegan Year, you’d expect a book to either be more of a memoir, or a guide to seasonality. Somehow this book manages to be neither. It is a vegan  guide of sorts, with lists and  general discussion that might be useful, including pantry basics, produce by season (in the UK), and vegan lifestyle (like clothing and skincare).  It’s got some recipes too, but that’s  where things get random.  Each season has some combination of various meals, but there’s no clear […]

Humpty Doos and Swingles and Citrus History

Citrus: A World History by David J Mabberley

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Technically this is going to be a DNF, but not because I didn’t like it; I just ran out of time and library renewals. Citrus: A World History is an interesting cross between textbook and coffee table book. It’s got the pretty pictures, many from historical records, in combination with blocks of dense but detailed information about where citrus may have originated, different varieties that have appeared, and what people have done with them over a couple of millennia. There are sections on different eras, […]

Filipino Food Sounds Goods

Make It Plant Based: Filipino by Ria Elciario-McKeown

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It seems kind of rare to get a cookbook focused on a lesser well known cuisine that is not loaded with hard to find ingredients. Make It Plant Based: Filipino actually manages to be both vegan and ethnic without requiring too many unheard of ingredients, and also actually manages to make its cuisine pretty user friendly to someone (me) totally unfamiliar. Full disclosure: I haven’t actually tried anything out of here yet, but I will. There is a brief introduction that manages to not preach […]

Deja vu recipes?

The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon

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I really feel like I’ve looked through The Oh She Glows Cookbook before, but I can’t find it in my review history. I know I have one of the follow-up books, which might be why this one feels so familiar, but I’m just not sure. It’s from 2014 so the other alternative is that most of the contents has been done similarly by someone later that I have seen. It bugs me a little not knowing. This is a perfectly serviceable vegan cookbook that’s got […]

Bottom’s up for summer sippin’

The Art of Mixology: Mocktails by Parragon Books

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I present a unicorn: a specialty cookbook that has barely any hard to find ingredients and not too many single use specialty items (as in, specialty thing to acquire, but only use tiny bit in one recipe). The Art of Mixology: Mocktails is also kind of on-trend, but that’s also probably why I saw it on sale at the bulls-eye store. Before getting to the recipes there is a review of bar-tending equipment, glassware, terms/techniques, and general ingredient types. If you know your cocktails, none […]

Hopefully we don’t ever have to eat people

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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This book is a wild and disturbing ride. I’m not sure how to talk about it without spoilers, so if you haven’t read it and want to – don’t say I didn’t warn you. In the world of this book, all animals have contracted a virus that makes them poisonous to humans. And when I say all animals, I mean cows, pigs, chickens, and other livestock, but also birds, and cats and dogs, and squirrels. And believe me, I KNOW the animals being poisonous was […]



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