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HOT DAMN AND HELL YEAH
Recipes for Hungry Banditos and The Dirty South Vegan Cookbook
Author: Splint, Ryan and Vanessa Doe
Review Date: DECEMBER 01, 2005
Publisher:Microcosm Publishing
Price (paperback): $6.00
Publication Date: October 2005
ISBN: 0977055701
ISBN (paperback): 0977055701
Category: REPORTS
Classification: COOKING AND ENTERTAINING
Hell hath frozen over with this cheeky, charming collection that tackles a grand culinary oxymoron: down-home Southern cooking—for vegans!
Southern cuisine has a reputation for being greasy, rib-sticking, belly-warming and, above all, loaded with meat. According to Splint and Doe, all of the above are true—except the meat. With their conjoined cookbooks, they are on a mission to prove that it’s possible to make classic Southern comfort foods without animal products. With recipes like “Chicken-Fried Tofu,” “Pumpkin Fritters” and “Red Velvet Cake,” this is hardly a health book. But where Splint and Doe leave out the meat and dairy, they pack in the flavor—for any vegan tired of bland, tasteless dishes, it’s perfect. They offer “Biscuits and Gravy” with soy sausage, “Vanilla Fudge” with soy milk and “Red Velvet Cake” with margarine. Some of their new dishes are so tantalizing, like “Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burritos,” that even carnivores will find a delicious dish. The authors also go beyond the recipes, giving readers creative ideas for ingredient substitutions, so that they can vegan-ize their own favorite dishes.
Hungry banditos everywhere will be shouting hell yeah for a group of vegan recipes that don’t taste like sawdust!
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