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May. 12th, 2010 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutNow I kinda want to write a cookbook titled Vegan Food For Grown-Ups, because Veganomicon is not that book. After the page that had a Mexican-inflected recipe that declared "after you taste it, your name for this will be 'que yum!'" and then talked about "whatever that gross stuff is they put in traditional dirty rice" in the recipe next to it, I feel like I'm reading a book written by and for sixteen-year-old girls.
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:03 pm (UTC)I also detest the fact that the authors apparently have palates made of steel wool: a bean pie is not, and never will be, similar in texture to a quiche, and there are many other similar examples that frustrated me as I read through it.
Why is it that vegan cookbook writers feel so much need to be cutesy?
Veganomicon isn't the only one whose self-conscious "fun" tone seemed oddly... the-lady-doth-protest-too-much, where they are clearly trying to convince the reader that the authors aren't the dour strident hairy-legged hateful separatist sort of vegans but the fun, sassy, hip, sexy, friendly, your-friends-will-like-us kind. (Oddly, datedly, dykey, and not in the good way.)
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Date: 2010-05-12 08:32 pm (UTC)So far Vegan Soul Kitchen is the clear winner in its field, especially as its the cookbook that convinced me to try reading vegan cookbooks in general again in the first place.
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Date: 2010-05-13 03:06 am (UTC)P.S. to change the subject entirely, are y'all still looking for NOLOSE courtesans?
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Date: 2010-05-13 02:23 am (UTC)