Product Description

This book is your culinary passport to the world's spicy cuisines. It lets you take a trip around the world with delicious, mouth-watering, meatless, dairy-free, and egg-free recipes, ranging from mildly spiced to nearly incendiary. Explore the spicy cuisines of the U.S., South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia with: Red-Hot White Bean Chili, Tunisian Couscous, Vindaloo Vegetables, Vegetable Tagine wth Seitan, Szechuan Noodle Salad, Turkish Bulgur Pilaf, Jambalaya, Thai Coconut Soup, Penne Arrabbiata, Satays with Ginger Peanut Sauce, and many more.
Organized by global regions, this book gives you 200 inventive and delicious 100% vegan recipes for traditional international dishes, using readily available ingredients. Best of all, you can adjust the heat yourself and enjoy these recipes hot - or not. (Note: This is a 100% vegan, revised and updated version of Robin's 1998, out-of-print vegetarian book, Some Like It Hot, and contains new recipes and important new content.)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2674 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 268 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780980013108
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Hands down, the most flavorful vegan cookbook in print. Vegan Fire & Spice brings together authentic, wonderfully spiced dishes from every continent. If you re tired of making vegan recipes that don t bring the thunder, you need this cookbook in your kitchen. --Erik Marcus, publisher of Vegan.com

Want a hot, spicy trip around the world? Save the money on airfare and instead splurge on Robin Robertson s latest work, Vegan Fire and Spice. Already a prolific cookbook author, Robertson tackles some fairly uncharted territory for us vegans, culinarily speaking. Even though there s a lengthy and lustrous history of ethnic vegetarian cuisine, Robertson s book gets more in depth as her recipes are often as authentic, and authentically spicy, as they can be. Separated into regions the Americas, Mediterranean Europe, the Middle East and Africa, India, and Asia the book features appetizers, soups and sides, main courses, and sauces for each locale. From classic dishes like Spicy Rotini Primavera to the truly exotic Vietnamese fish Sauce, the heat index can be adjusted to personal taste. Robertson arms her readers with the right way to cool down after one chile too many, and encourages us to try a little more heat than we may usually attempt. Forget the armchair; stovetop travelling is far spicier. --Elizabeth Castoria, VegNews Magazine, March/April 2008

Whether you like your food mildly seasoned or boldly spiced, Vegan Fire & Spice is the go-to book for great-tasting and healthful global vegan recipes. --Neal Barnard, M.D., president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

About the Author
Robin Robertson is the author of the best-selling Vegan Planet, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, and The Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook. She is a vegan chef and award-winning cookbook author whose culinary experience spans over 25 years. She has been a restaurant chef, caterer, cooking teacher, and food columnist. Her features and columns regularly appear in VegNews Magazine and on the Internet.

Customer Reviews

Delicious - can't wait to try more!
I've hesitated to review cookbooks because I'm never sure when I've tried enough of one to warrant a review. After all, I can only comment on the bits and pieces with which I have experience. Still, the good cookbooks are worth mentioning, and this is one of the good ones.

As I flip through Vegan Fire & Spice, I'm finding that just about every recipe screams "Try me!" The recipes are organized broadly into large swaths of the globe (The Americas, Mediterranean Europe, The Middle East and Africa, India and Asia), and each section is further broken down into more specific regions. The recipes are -- you guessed it -- spicy, though of course this is adjustable to taste by varying the amount of spice or the quantity of chilis.

Anshu's Red Lentil Sambar sounded immensely appealing, although it required a trip to the local Indian grocery to purchase Garam Masala and a Sambar spice mixture. This is a good weekend recipe, as preparation and cooking takes some time. And there's a small criticism: I wish this cookbook included estimated prep times, because although some steps in this recipe gave approximate times, others did not and so it was hard in advance to get a sense of how long I'd be in the kitchen. I started making this at 6:45 and the meal wasn't ready until 9:00. Now that I understand the recipe, I'm sure that I could cut that time way down -- but it was worth even the long prep time.

The sambar is a delicious, hearty dish, full of chunks of vegetables and rich simmered lentils. It is more like a stew than the thin sambar soup you normally get in restaurants. Spiced to perfection -- and even better when I brought some with me for lunch the next day.

On a side note: I purchased this and another vegetarian cookbook from Amazon, and in a lovely gesture, they tucked in a coupon for a McDonald's chicken sandwich with my order. How thoughtful. At least I got a laugh in about it!

Another delicious and useful book from Robin Robertson
I am always thrilled to see a new Robin Robertson book, and this one is no exception. It is a flavorful and exciting tour of world cuisines. Cooks who do not have easy access to local ethnic markets will appreciate the fact that Robertson has designed her recipes to be supermarket friendly and has provided good substitions for esoteric ingredients. Not only vegans, but people of all eating choices will enjoy this fine book.

Take your taste buds around the world!
My daughter gave me this cookbook because she knows how much I love all the cuisines of the world--Chinese, Italian, Indian, Thai, Spanish, African, etc.--and I'm really impressed with it! The book's organized by regions of the world, making it easy to find recipes I'm in the mood for. I've already made one of the Italian recipes and one of the Thai recipes, and both were easy-to-follow and delicious. I can't wait to try all the recipes I've seen in my favorite restaurants but never knew how to make! To me, the spicier and hotter a recipe, the better, but the book offers recipe modifications for people who want a full-flavored meal without all the heat. And it introduced me to all kinds of chilies and even told me where I can find them. It's a gem!