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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 […]

On eating compassionately

The Happy Vegan: A Guide to Living a Long, Healthy, and Successful Life by Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow

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It’s a natural time for change: new school year, new season, new job. So, I decided to freshen up my routines across the board. Since I’ve felt sluggish, lately, I’m trying to switch up what I’m eating. Libraries have like a million food books, so I just ran through that aisle and threw all of them in my cart, Supermarket Sweep-style. The Happy Vegan had a great title, so it’s the first one I read. It’s written by mogul Russell Simmons. I don’t know much […]

To Bake or Not To Bake

Vegan Cakes and Other Bakes by Jerome Eckmeier, Daniela Lais

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I’m still working on that stack of long-lost Christmas cookbooks, and I’ve finally run into one that is going in the ‘to be sold’ pile and I doubt I’ll be trying much from it: Vegan Cakes and Other Bakes. First and foremost for the record, I like baking and vegan cooking; I’ve done a good bit of vegan and alternative ingredients baking. My biggest problem with this set of recipes is that it seems to rely on a few things that would be difficult for […]

Whether we are or not

We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

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I went into this book having no knowledge of its topic, only a fondness for the author’s other work. It turns out, this was the author’s plan. It’s a delightfully written account of the dying earth and how we, the human race, are the leading cause of its death.  It’s a good mix of fact-based research and anecdotal evidence; it’s difficult to talk about this book without revealing its seedy underbelly. So in the interest of full disclosure: SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT: this book is […]



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