Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search

My Meh Reading of Recent

My Vegan Year by Niki Webster

by 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 […]

Filipino Food Sounds Goods

Make It Plant Based: Filipino by Ria Elciario-McKeown

by 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 […]

Reasons why this is a cookbook not for me, at least not at this time

Good Things by Samin Nosrat

by 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 […]

So close but then nope

The Unofficial Harry Potter Vegan Cookbook by Imana Grashuis, Tylor Starr

by 3 Comments

Have you ever read a book and started to appreciate it, only for one small detail to ruin the whole thing? When I picked up The Unofficial Harry Potter Vegan Cookbook, it was clearly stated that the book was in no way officially affiliated with the franchise and its author, so that didn’t bother me. The introduction is a little preachy about vegan ethics, but it’s by Evanna Lynch, the actress for Luna Lovegood. It’s nothing I haven’t seen before in vegan cookbooks. The thing […]

Not the right chemistry for me

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

by Leave a Comment

Bingo 12: School Some of the more significant moments especially towards the beginning of Lessons in Chemistry, as well as some later generally consistent episodes related to school work and learning put this one in the School spot. It’s no secret that being female in academia has been a challenge for a significant part of history, and Lessons in Chemistry starts with the worst parts of the 1950s-1960s horrific treatment of women in higher education (seriously, there should be a CW for the assault scene). […]

Yay carbs! and other things

Turnip Greens & Tortillas by Eddie Hernandez

by 1 Comment

I had a feeling I may have read Turnip Greens & Tortillas at some point but I was browsing in the Library and they had a Cinco De Mayo shelf and I wasn’t sure. Having read the book, I’m still not sure. But I’m glad I picked it up, because it has a recipe I have been looking for: bolillos. I cannot find them anywhere close to where I live, and they are probably the best sandwich rolls for most all roll/sub type sandwiches like […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo