Book Review: The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions

Book Review: The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions
By: Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman

 

This is a must have book if you are vegan and you like to cook. This is the best and most helpful cookbook for vegans that I have ever read. It is set up in a very user-friendly manner with color-coded sections for each substitution section. Do you need to substitute for eggs? Go to the orange section. Honey substitutions? Blue. BAM! So easy!

Each section starts out with a chart for easy substitution finding and follows with recipes that explain the different methods of substitutions. The recipes look fantastic (I haven't tried them yet, and some look very complex, but they all sound so tasty). It covers everything from cakes to waffles, mayonnaise to buffalo wings, and pizza to Shepard's pie. Each section begins with a sometimes humorous, but always truthful, page or two about why being vegan is better than eating animal products and why different substitutions are better in different instances. Each chapter explains how to change any recipe to make it vegan. Need to bake a cake? Use applesauce instead of butter or eggs, almond milk instead of cow's milk, and molasses instead of honey.

In the back of the book is a chart that compiles all the substitution information and presents it in very tiny font. It would probably be helpful to blow it up by 150% and laminate it and stick it on the kitchen wall.

The colored pages, neatly laid-out charts, and fun editing make this book a 100% win.

It is available in Paperback and online. I got mine at Barnes & Noble as a Christmas present (It was in the specialty diet/cookbook section).

5/5