cover image Vive Le Vegan!: Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

Vive Le Vegan!: Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

Dreena Burton. Arsenal Pulp Press, $22.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-55152-169-5

With its quintessentially vegan-sounding recipe names--Apple-Hemp Muffins, Balsamic-Garlic Flax Oil (to dip with bread), Millet-Amaranth Porridge, Vicki's Hummus-Quinoa Casserole--this cookbook certainly has a specific audience. But vegan readers are in for a treat, because Burton (The Everyday Vegan) has compiled a trove of (mostly) fast and easy recipes for dishes that promise to deliver flavor and texture, and use fresh produce as well as whole grains (like kamut, brown rice, quinoa and millet), beans (including adzuki, kidney, navy and chickpeas) and flours (such as spelt, barley and oat). All dishes are animal-free, and many are wheat-free, as well. In addition to the recipes (which run the gamut from appetizers to main dishes to desserts), there are sections on feeding vegan babies and toddlers, and a helpful glossary that explains such ingredients as blackstrap molasses and hemp seed nut butter.