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A Theory of What Makes for Good Plant Based Substitutions (and review of a restaurant cookbook)

Sugar Taco at Home by Jayde Nicole, Nia Gatica Campos, Alan Campos

January 5, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I mentioned in my previous review acquiring two cookbooks at a local favorite shop that is no longer local; the shop is Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee WI. The second cookbook is Sugar Taco at Home, Sugar Taco apparently being a vegan taco joint in LA. There’s a little more vegan preaching in this book than I’d like, but no so much that it totally overtakes the recipes and yummy food. For a restaurant book, this surprisingly doable, and not overly chef-fy. Being a restaurant […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alan Campos, cookbook, Jayde Nicole, Jayde Nicole, Nia Gatica Campos, Alan Campos, Mexican cooking, mexican food, Nia Gatica Campos, plant based cooking, Sugar Taco, Sugar Taco at Home, Tacos, vegan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alan Campos, cookbook, Jayde Nicole, Jayde Nicole, Nia Gatica Campos, Alan Campos, Mexican cooking, mexican food, Nia Gatica Campos, plant based cooking, Sugar Taco, Sugar Taco at Home, Tacos, vegan ·
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Unpretentious Mexican food book

Provecho by Edgar Castrejon

June 4, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have cooked my way through a lot of international cuisine cookbooks, including India, Japan, Italy, Thailand, the UK. I think I may have found one for Mexico. Provecho has been on several “best of” lists, so I figured that it might be worth checking out. It’s surprisingly straightforward in terms of recipes and ingredients for being both vegan and Mexican. A lot books like this have some sort of introduction to key ingredients sections, but what sets this one apart is both how recognizable […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cookbook, edgar casterjon, Edgar Castrejon, mexican food, provecho, vegan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: cookbook, edgar casterjon, Edgar Castrejon, mexican food, provecho, vegan ·
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