Compassionate Cook: Or, Please Don't Eat the Animals!

by Ingrid Newkirk

From PETA, the largest animal rights organization in the world, comes a repackaged collection of over 200 healthy and humane vegan recipes that cover everything from breakfast to dinner and beyond. The Compassionate Cook offers easy-to-make recipes that are tasty, healthy, and most importantly, humane. This collection covers breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as snacks, appetizers and side dishes. These inventive and fun recipes will inspire readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446394920
• ISBN13: 9780446394925
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A very good beginner cookbook

I know that when trying to fine a good cookbook you read a billion reviews, so i'll make this short. I'm seventeen years old and a brand new vegan, so i started out knowing nothing. This is the first cookbook i bought, it was simple and easy to follow, and it's recipes have "normal" ingredients. Once you learn what your staples will be: nutritional yeast, tofu, TVP, beans... it's easy to keep them on hand no matter where you live. Believe me, i live in rural north dakota, i know the value of "down to earth" ingredients. This book is an inexpensive must-buy, very beginner-friendly.

Perfect for new veggies and parents of veggies! :)

I have been vegan for 14 years and have had this book for most of it. To this day, I use it all the time!I recommend this book to any new veggie *or* a parent who doesn't know what to cook for their newly veggie kid! Here are a few reasons why:1. This is family-friendly food. There are vegan versions of favorites like pancakes, birthday cake, chili, etc.2. None of the recipes are difficult, so they work fine for a young cook.3. They only require ingredients that you can find at a regular grocery store (except a few things in the small asian section, and also powdered egg replacer, which can be found at any health food store, in some regular grocery stores these days, or ordered online).4. All of the recipes are vegan.I wish you well on your veggie journey! :)P.S. I've tried dozens of recipes in this book, and they all came out yummy, except for the vanilla frosting (which was too "buttery" instead of sweet), but there are other good frosting recipes in the book, and oodles on the web, so it's no big deal. ;)

Great and useful cookbook for vegans and vegetarians

This cookbook is really great. Many celebrities contributed recipes to it, like Rue McClanahan's "Tofu Cheesecake"! Is Rue a vegetarian? k.d. lang contributes a recipe for Indonesian Salad with Spicy Peanut dressing. Even Kevin Nealon from SNL contributes a tasty recipe. My favorite section of the book has to be the deserts though. I made "Peanut Butter Drops" recently and they recieved rave reviews. Like many people, I only drink soy milk, and it is great to have recipes that are made with soy milk in mind, sometimes it is difficult because the soy milk can flavor some dishes in a not so great way. The Spinach and Cashew Salad is great also. I look forward to picking some phat recipes from this book to bring to my best friend's wedding picnic. It's a must have.

My most-used cookbook

I collect vegetarian cookbooks and this is the one that I always go back to. I think it's especially great for people just going vegan because it has recipes for common everyday foods using common ingredients. I use the pancake and banana bread recipes on a weekly basis. I send recipes from this book to my sister who isn't a vegetarian but who is lactose-intolerant. She loves the recipes because she's a picky eater and won't eat anything "weird"!

Good Food

I have many different vegetarian cookbooks and yet this is the one I always use. It does not use ingrediants that are weird or unpronounceable. For anyone just starting out as a vegetarian or have been one for years. This cookbook is for you. Enjoy!