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My Vegan Year by Niki Webster

April 23, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, cooking, Gardening, My Vegan Year, Niki Webster, vegan, Veganism

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:21 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, cooking, Gardening, My Vegan Year, Niki Webster, vegan, Veganism ·
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Filipino Food Sounds Goods

Make It Plant Based: Filipino by Ria Elciario-McKeown

March 28, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, cooking, Filipino cuisine, Make It Plant Based: Filipino, plant based, Ria Elciario-McKeown, vegan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, cooking, Filipino cuisine, Make It Plant Based: Filipino, plant based, Ria Elciario-McKeown, vegan ·
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Deja vu recipes?

The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon

March 27, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: Angela Lidden, Angela Liddon, cookbook, Oh She Glows Cookbook, plant based, vegan food

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: Angela Lidden, Angela Liddon, cookbook, Oh She Glows Cookbook, plant based, vegan food ·
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Bottom’s up for summer sippin’

The Art of Mixology: Mocktails by Parragon Books

March 27, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Featured Tagged With: beverage, cookbook, drinks, mixology, Mocktails, parragon books, recipes, the art of mixology mocktails

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Featured · Tags: beverage, cookbook, drinks, mixology, Mocktails, parragon books, recipes, the art of mixology mocktails ·
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Reasons why this is a cookbook not for me, at least not at this time

Good Things by Samin Nosrat

February 1, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Sometimes it’s pretty clear when a book is probably just fine, but maybe not for you, or at least you right now. Good Things by Samin Nosrat has some good things going for it. It’s got a lot of parts where there ar basically sets of theme and variation on a recipe or ingredient which can be nice when you’ve got a lot of something but don’t want to get bored. The premise of focusing on kind of simple pleasures is also something I can […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: #biography, #memoir, cookbook, cooking, Good Things, Samin Nosrat, technique

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: #biography, #memoir, cookbook, cooking, Good Things, Samin Nosrat, technique ·
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Kimchi in everything!

The Korean Vegan Homemade by Joanne Lee Molinaro

January 17, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I took a chance; I ended up kind of feeling like a book from a few years ago looked better than it was for me, but when I saw the sequel, I decided to try it out again. The Korean Vegan: Homemade is a little more personal story oriented than the first one, which is kind of a cookbook trend the past few years, but that’s not the main thing; that would be the recipes. One the one hand, they look more do-able, especially with […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, joanne lee molinaro, korean cuisine, the korean vegan homemade, vegan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, joanne lee molinaro, korean cuisine, the korean vegan homemade, vegan ·
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