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Afro Vegan: Family recipes from a British-Nigerian kitchen

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I also enjoyed the bits of history and supplemental music and book suggestions paired with the recipes. Those made this more like a book you can just sit down and read straight through. There are even some gardening tips and a word from Michael Twitty at the end. If you love the cultures of Africa, the Caribbean and the South you will be delighted by this book. I liked the playlist of the day along with current reads for some of the recipes. It gave the cookbook a bit of a vibe.

although some of these use special sauces or rubs, the nice thing, he includes how to make those in the book.With each recipe, he tells you what it would be best served with. He also highlights what flavors will attach to your taste bud for each dish so you can get the flavor profile of the dish. So you would know if the dish is something you should try. I love the menu suggestion that create a full menu based on recipes in the book. This book's theme is the connection between Africa and the Americas (particularly (souther) US, the Caribbean isles, and Brazil), though recipes presented here. Some are no doubt familiar from the author's previous books, but they have been 'remixed' here. There are 100+ recipes, many with pictures; at the end are some menu suggestions. Michael W. Twitty (author of "the Cooking Gene", another great book) gives the afterword. Again Terry gives us music with each recipes, and books/films with some, also. The theme is heritage, and it shows. Of course, being around a farm too makes you constantly think about the reality of meat and other animal products, how these products are made and where they come from. It’s become a bit too easy in the modern world to compartmentalize the things you eat as long as they taste good, and we often forget (or rather are hesitant to think) that animal products come from living beings, who want to enjoy long happy lives, not unlike our household pets. Growing up on a farm with a very ‘farm to table’ lifestyle really breaks down any dissociation you might have between the living thing and whatever is on your plate.”

I think this is perhaps his most balanced vegan cookbook, of the three so far. The theme is brought out clearly, and they have gives me the best urges to try the recipes. I don't list recipes from the first section here, but certainly from the others: When I was a kid, I always read books about places my mom could never take me. This book has taken me to Brazil, Ghana, Caribbean, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Louisiana, The South, North Carolina, Kenya, Senegal, Salvador, Haiti and so many other places. I felt like a kid all over again. That said, there are a ton of recipes in here I really want to eat! I really appreciate a vegan cookbook that isn't full of weird substitutions, nor does it rely too much on mushrooms (which I don't really care for most of the time). I'm not vegan, but I am lactose-intolerant and don't eat a great deal of meat, so vegan is a nice shorthand way for me to know that things aren't going to be drowning in cream and bacon. I know it sounds weird to read a COOKBOOK from cover to cover but this is one that you must read from cover to cover.

If you want to update your vegetable recipes, you NEED this book! No longer will you be confined to the same repetitive vegetable recipes you've relied on day after day! The book is fine. The food seems like it would be okay (except...the cornbread... jfc) but I dunno. I guess the main problem I had was the remix, and also how food is actually really distinct in all these cultures and I didn't feel the recipes went with each other.

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