A treasure!!
4 stars
A lovely vegetarian cookery book from almost 40 years ago! Kathy starts by encouraging readers to undertake one V-day a week - what has now morphed into the Meatless Monday or Meatfree Monday ideas - and add more dedicated V-days as their vegetarian cooking confidence grows. This is pretty much exactly how I started my vegan journey and can attest to its success.
Although some of Kathy's recipes include milk and cheese, they can easily be veganised, thereby avoiding the vegetarian step to jump straight to fully Vegan-days without any extra stress. Kathy herself recommends plantmilks and I successfully used commercially available vegan cheese in my recreations of her recipes. There's some quaint reminders of how much has changed over the past 40 years - curry powder being a singular thing for example rather than the wide variety of blends we now have available - and other plantbased staples have …
A lovely vegetarian cookery book from almost 40 years ago! Kathy starts by encouraging readers to undertake one V-day a week - what has now morphed into the Meatless Monday or Meatfree Monday ideas - and add more dedicated V-days as their vegetarian cooking confidence grows. This is pretty much exactly how I started my vegan journey and can attest to its success.
Although some of Kathy's recipes include milk and cheese, they can easily be veganised, thereby avoiding the vegetarian step to jump straight to fully Vegan-days without any extra stress. Kathy herself recommends plantmilks and I successfully used commercially available vegan cheese in my recreations of her recipes. There's some quaint reminders of how much has changed over the past 40 years - curry powder being a singular thing for example rather than the wide variety of blends we now have available - and other plantbased staples have stood the test of time.