Mayim's Vegan Table: More Than 100 Great-Tasting And Healthy Recipes From My Family To Yours (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I'm not vegan, but I really enjoy reading healthy cookbooks. Unfortunately, this one disappointed me. Despite the fact that it's explicitly stated in the beginning that we shouldn't rely too much on vegan substitutions or processed food, many of the recipes were indeed full of meat and dairy substitutions. I was hoping for healthy recipes using natural food, but what I got instead was a way to veganize "normal" food. While that is helpful every now and then, it just wasn't what I was expecting. I also have a hard time when cookbooks don't have pictures. I can't decide if a recipe sounds good based on a list of ingredients, I need to see it! Granted, there was a color insert in the middle of the book that included some recipe pictures, and they looked phenomenal. However it would have been much more helpful if they had been on the same page as the recipe, and if more were included. I did copy some recipes down, but definitely not as many as I was expecting. Okay.....if you're going to publish a cookbook, all the while lecturing me on why I should "go vegan" and give up all the foods I love, then I think you'd be a little more successful if you included pictures with the recipes. Everyone knows we eat with our eyes, and I'm all for eating vegan (not always, mind you...I believe in everything in moderation...I'm more of a flexitarian, with a more vegetarian lean), and some of these recipes I could really add to my daily food plan. But with the lack of pictures to make me think "Ooohhh, I really want to make that. That looks delicious," I find it easy to pass on this vegan cookbook. There are better ones available.
What do You think about Mayim's Vegan Table: More Than 100 Great-Tasting And Healthy Recipes From My Family To Yours (2014)?
Good recipes but very basic. The text information is really useful.
—anithawinfred
Great and simple recipes. Not enough pictures :/
—momo
