Product Description

Are you tempted to try vegan cooking but fearful of all the foods and flavors you’ll have to give up? Now Amanda Grant’s Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures makes vegan food more delicious and accessible than ever before. Grant has created mouth-watering dishes that not only taste great, but help you achieve optimum health and vitality. Her winning combination of fresh and healthy ingredients—consisting of vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, herbs, sea vegetables, and exotic spices—fantastic flavor, great variety, and quick-and-easy preparatory methods make Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures ideal for everyone interested in vegan cooking. Sure to delight even the choosiest of eaters, the 145 delectable recipes—which span appetizers, salads, main dishes, and desserts—include:

Vegetable Crisps • Fresh Ginger and Basil Pasta • Four-Onion Croustades • Wild Mushroom Soup • Spanish Potato Gratin • Tomato and Basil Risotto • Moroccan Pilaf • Homemade Pizza • Chocolate Raspberry Hazelnut Cake • Orange and Passionfruit Sorbet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426788 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
AMANDA GRANT is a leading food editor in the United Kingdom. She appears regularly on radio and television, including a recurring slot on a daytime cooking show. Grant is the author of several books, including The Powerfood Cookbook, Lunchbox, and Organic Baby Foods. She lives in London.

Customer Reviews

so many problems with this book
Ok there are a few things I noticed wrong with this book. First, the quantities seem to be off, probably b/c the author is british, and the UK cups are different than the cups here. Second, the book is poorly organized - one would have to flip through most of it to find a recipe, since there are only four divisions - which I believe are appetizers, salads and light meals, main entrees, and deserts. And third, the recipes are just not practical to make - I like to try new things, but this book takes the exotic really too far. Plus she uses a lot of specialty ingredients that one would have to go hunting for. I found the whole book disappointing.

Easy, delicous recipes in great layout
I used this cookbook for my first vegan dinner party - my guests were blown away. My sister and her husband were prepared to have a meal with lettuce and rice and were stunned by the food. The recipes I made were the Grilled Eggplant with Black Olive Dressing, Puree of Beans and Potatoes with Olive Oil and the Chocolate Raspberry Hazelnut cake - (lick the bowl on this one!).

The layout of this book is EASY to follow.

Enjoy!

Amanda is right on!!!!
Amanda Grant has assembled some truly wonderful recipes that will satisfy even the most stubborn meat eaters. She addresses taste, texture, variety, aroma and presentation while staying true to a strict vegetarian diet (no honey = thanks amanda). What I particularly like is that Amanda doesn't get mired in the pitfalls that bog down other like minded books. That is, she doesn't offer meat and cheese substitutes, but wonderfully crafted recipes that stand on their own. So, strict vegetarians, chicken/fish eating "vegetarians" and meat eaters unite to gather around a plate of Caramelized Fennel and Shallot Risotto. The debeaked chickens of the world will thank you.