The Complete Idiots Guide to Vegan Living or Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Living

Author: Beverly Bennet

The definitive book on becoming a vegan-with recipes included.
Becoming a vegan isn't just about giving up animal products. It's about making a lifestyle change. In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Living, authors Beverly Lynn Bennett (known as the Vegan Chef) and Ray Sammartano provide a complete guide to living vegan-style, focusing on compassion for all, good health, and great eating. Inside, readers will find 50 sensational recipes, tips for everyday vegan living, the lowdown on vegan myths, and much more.
-One of the few titles that combines information on the vegan lifestyle with recipes
-Being a vegan isn't only about what you eat; this book also discusses clothing, cosmetics, etc.
-Author is a renowned vegan chef

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Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin

Author: Susan Reinhardt

Is the brand sticker still affixed to your saut‚ pan?

Is your wok used solely as a receptacle for potato chips?

Does your blender only see the light of day when Baccardi or Tequila is involved?

If so, then welcome to the Kitchen Virgin Club. But don't despair-you're in the illustrious company of Susan Reinhardt: syndicated columnist, spokeswoman for skewed southern bellehood...and one truly lousy cook. In this cleaver-sharp new collection of food stories, culinary missteps, and recipes from yummy to yucky, Reinhardt comes clean-way clean-as the unapologetic product of a long line of talented, fascinating, funny women who have regular brushes with homicide by pot roast. From "The Toaster Oven is a Bee-otch" to "When Road Kill Makes it to Mikasa," as well as the titular tale of the socialite who shaved her fuzzy greens, these stranger-than-fiction accounts will have you laughing until milk spews out of your nose. And for those inspired to graduate from Kitchen Virgin to Kitchen 'Tute, there's "Bone Apple Cheat!"- Reinhardt's own shortcut-to-real-food recipes. So next time you're tempted to make Taco Bell your last (okay, first) resort, crack open this book, have a laugh...and get cookin'.

Chicago Sun-Times

Like hanging out with your bluntest, most mischievous friend, the one who never fails to crack you up.

Asheville Citizen-Times

So engaging...so honest...will make you laugh out loud.

The Pilot (N.C.)

Funny and touching...Reinhardt is not afraid to put it all out there.

Courtney Greene - Library Journal

Reinhardt's (Don't Sleep with a Bubba) third book takes the reader on a brash, audacious tour de force of Southern-fried anecdotes from the kitchen, the bedroom, the grocery store, and everywhere in between. Ostensibly a book about cooking-or not cooking-this is a series of Dixie-flavored, chick-lit memoirs aimed at working moms; chapters include "When Roadkill Meets Mikasa" and "If Your Kids Like School Lunches You Suck as a Cook." While the stories are presented with humor and sometimes pathos-as in her feeling presentation of Barbara the cafeteria lady in "We'll Serve Ya a Meat but No Advice"-they are often broadly written and occasionally rather bawdy. (If you don't find humor in bodily functions or roadkill, you won't enjoy this book.) Each chapter does include a few related recipes of varying complexity; some are more like supporting characters in the narrative. Recommended for public libraries.

Table of Contents:

Contents Foreword....................1
One: There Are No Pot Holders in Heaven....................9
Two: Vigilante Grannies' Good Eats and Feats....................23
Three: Erotic Eating: When Love and Food Collide....................33
Four: Once You've Done a Meal, You Have to Be Dead to Get Out of Another....................45
Five: If the Baby Comes Early, Blame It on the Ham....................53
Six: Bon Appe-Cheat!....................65
Seven: Dude Food....................73
Eight: Upscale Dude Food....................81
Nine: Monster Collards and Daisy Shavers....................93
Ten: Tricks and Bad Eats....................99
Eleven: When Roadkill Meets Mikasa....................109
Twelve: When Daddies Do the Cooking....................127
Thirteen: Serve Ya a Meat, Ma'am?....................137
Fourteen: Cutthroat Covered-Dish Suppers....................149
Fifteen: If Your Kids Like School Lunches, You Suck as a Cook....................157
Sixteen: Before SPAM Hit Computers, It Was a Meat to Be Reckoned With....................165
Seventeen: Making a Mess of Collards....................173
Eighteen: There's No Such Thing as a Free Bird....................183
Nineteen: My Alcoholic Cat....................189
Twenty: If the Sushi Isn't Fried, Pass the Boiled Peanuts....................197
Twenty-one: Kitchen Virgins and Kitchen Trollops....................209
Twenty-two: Eating Free, Buffet-a-Phobia, and DubiousDiets....................219
Recipe Index....................229