Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and...

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and Start Looking ... | Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin | May be good for beginning vegans...

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	Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and Start Looking ... Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin Running Press, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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Great sequel to a book that changed my life AGAIN

At first, I picked up this book and thought it was too basic. A recipe for how to make a salad? I can do that on my own. But, as someone ass="textlinks">who's been a vegetarian for 20 years, I hadn't really ventured into some of the ingredients used here. Fake meat products made from soy? Yeah, I've had veggie burgers and soy sausages for breakfast, but veggie bacon? steak strips? chicken? Now I'm happily venturing into a new direction. The beef stew is to die for. My husband thought he was eating meat and asked why I prepared it. The mac 'n cheese is no substitute for the real thing, but satisfied my urge for it, with a lot fewer fat grams. The sage pesto with butternut squash is good enough for 5 star dining and entertaining. I was getting bored with salad, pasta and grains, now I have new things to try. For the price, you can't go wrong, even if you only find one recipie you like and use it regularly. I have already found several to add to my repertoire.

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May be good for beginning vegans...

I received this as a present. Let me start off by saying that I myself like to cook complex, creative, and innovative vegan meals. I've been vegetarian for a while, and vegan for a few months now.
I have two takes on this book:
1) It's not what I expected. In a bad way. It just uses old recipes and veganizes them in a way that's easy, lazy, and uncreative. Instead of real cheese, they use soy cheese (most of which tastes crappy). Instead of real meat, they use "fake turkey/chicken/etc". Yes, that would be great and all, but the point of turning someone vegan is trying to get them to see that vegan food can taste just as good, if not better, as omni food. They don't tell you that you cannot easily obtain soy cheeses and meats that don't taste like crap.
2) It's great, in a way, for stumped new vegans. It makes them realize that everything can be veganized, and that there are alternatives out there for regular omni recipes. It sort of gives them a message of being able to have what they had when they were omni, except with a vegan twist.

All in all, I did not like this book. Maybe it's because I'm more advanced in the kitchen. It's too "fast food" -ish.

But for very basic beginning vegans, it might be a different place to start.

There's a full range of books I would still recommend over this one.

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Not what I expected

First, I thought this book was going to be about eating healthy and still living a normal life; What I actually found the authors of Skinny Bitch & Skinny Bitch in the Kitch want, is for me to become almost vegan, which is fine if you don't like meat, cheese or any sort of dairy. Second, I feel that this is just as much a "trend diet" as any of the other diets out there. Last, the recipes are fine, however, not something I could eat every day. Both books have a very creative and enjoyable writing style, and I enjoyed reading about dieting and health for the first time ever! I just didn't expect to be told not to eat meat or drink milk.

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