The Accidental Vegan - Softcover

Gartenstein, Devra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580910793 ISBN 13: 9781580910798

Publisher: Crossing Press, 2004

Synopsis

Vegetarian and ethnic dishes have made their way into mainstream American kitchens. From Thai noodles to Greek tahini sauce, these recipes are easy to create and require little prep time. Gartenstein offers ideas about low-fat cooking, how to shop for exotic ingredients, and healthy ingredient substitutions.

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Review

"Eat low on the food chain in high style with this eclectic collection of simply sophisticated recipes from Devra Gartenstein. Please your palate and spare the planet in one fell swoop--or one swell soup!"
--Kerry Trueman, cofounder of Eating Liberally

"Just as you don't have to be Italian to love pasta, you don't need to be vegan to enjoy these recipes."
--Taste for Life

About the Author

DEVRA GARTENSTEIN is an omnivore who owns and runs the Patty Pan Grill, a vegetarian restaurant and take-out counter in Seattle, Washington. She is also a farmers' market vendor who can be found at her stand at a local market nearly every day in the summer.THE AUTHOR SCOOP

If you had to boil the message of The Accidental Vegan down to one sentence, what would it be? You don’t have to be a vegetarian to eat vegetarian food, just like you don’t have to be Thai to eat Thai food, and you don’t have to be Mexican to eat Mexican food.When did you know you were a writer?When I was in third grade one of my teachers said, “You should never start a sentence with ‘and,’ unless you’re a writer.” And right then and there, I decided that’s what I wanted to be.What's the farthest you've ever traveled?I once traveled to a small town in Poland thinking it was the birthplace of my great grandfather, but when I got home and double checked, it turned out I’d gone to the wrong town.Any memorable kitchen disasters?I once spilled half a bucket of tahini. That’s twenty pounds of tahini. There’s no good way to clean up twenty pounds of tahini.What book do you re-read every few years?I re-read Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast, and then I watch the movie again, because it’s every bit as good as the original story.What are you working on now? I’m working on a book called Honest Food: A History of Eating Well. It’s an account of the relationship between humans and food, from Paleolithic times until the present day.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crossing Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1580910793
• ISBN 13: 9781580910798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144