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It’s a cookie baking book without vanilla

108 Asian Cookies by Kat Lieu

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8 is apparently a lucky number in Chinese culture, so instead of 100, we get 108 Asian Cookies: Not Too Sweet Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen. For me personally, this one is going to be more of a read for info and interest (and also local library summer reading challenge [adults can play too!]) for two reasons: 1) quite a few of the recipes are a little chef-ier than I personally like my baking to be, and 2)  I don’t like grocery shopping online which […]

Cooking and Stories from Immigrants in Minnesota

Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home by Linda Svitak, Christin Jay Eaton, Lee Svitak Dean

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Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home. This is a cookbook that admits that it’s not just about the recipes. It’s about the stories and a point as well. It’s very not shy about that, which is rare. Most anyone who’s read a cookbook, or even an online recipe has probably noticed that a lot of the writers try to sneak a lot of story and maybe also a ideological point in as well. There are 3 introductions to highlight […]

29 Minutes to Yummy

The 29-Minute Vegan by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

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Isa Chandra Moskowitz is probably my favorite cookbook author; the recipes are good, not boring, not too fussy, and you don’t have to wade through pages of narrative to get to each recipe. The 29-Minute Vegan is so titled because “thirty was already taken, and everyone could use an extra minute in their day.” To achieve the general time frame, there are a set of seven general principles including the one that kind made me wonder a little, “prep as you cook, cook as you […]

My Meh Reading of Recent

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 […]

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 […]



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