Books and films

This wonderful movie is now available to watch for free here: http://veganmovie.org/. It will make you both laugh and cry while it explores the lives of unique individuals and why they are vegan. Please watch and share …

I first read about Miyoko’s vegan cheese when I read a review of her book in VegNews in 2012 so I went to Barnes and Noble, looked at the magazine, complete with pictures, and bought the magazine not having a clue as to …

By the novelist who wrote "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" - this book tackles so many angles related to eating animals. Though it doesn't really get much into the vegan vs. …

I'd like to recommend a book I recently finished, "Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook", by Carol J. Adams. I appreciated and related to the many stories she collected from vegetarians and vegans …

I just finished this stimulating book by Jan Chozen Bays. She is a Zen teacher and a pediatrician who specializes in the care of abused children. With this background, she is well versed in both the physiology and …

Got an iPad? You should check out this app. My original justification for getting an iPad was for recipe access (yeah, uh-huh!). I already had most of my collection as Word documents so was using a file viewer until I …

by Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman. Nicely organized into sections (e.g. dairy, eggs) with a summary table of substitutions for each section and sample recipes. However, it is not the ultimate resource it professes to …

"Cooking, Being Cooked and Other Adventures in a Meditation Center". This is NOT a cookbook. · Kimberly Snow was once referred to as “God” in her position as executive chef of a large equine center. Years later, she …

“Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home” has long been one of my favorite cookbooks, so I was excited when I received their newest addition as a present. For those unfamiliar with the name, Moosewood Restaurant has been …

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life. · with Edward Espe Brown · This is much more about life than about cooking! But I did learn something about …

My husband and I went to see "Forks Over Knives" today and came out saying, "WOW!" It was inspiring, I thought I was well informed already but was surprised at how much I learned. I recommend it highly to anyone who …

This friendly, warm cookbook is written by a woman who had a vegetarian restaurant back in the early 70's. It is over 1,000 pages and is filled with great recipes and heart warming stories about her life and how many of …

This book is all about green smoothies. The author researched the diet of chimpanzees, our nearest wild relatives, and found that they grow big and strong on a diet of leaves and fruit. They have all day to chew their …

The Jungle exposes the horrors of the early-20th-century meat-packing industry in Chicago through the story of Lithuanian immigrants, Jurgis Rudkus and his extended family, who arrive in the city looking for social and …

This film, by the producer of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," describes the nitty gritty of the American industrial food production system. In many ways it is shocking, although a lot of it deals with the meat and …

"Green for Life" by Victoria Boutenko · This book is all about green smoothies. The author researched the diet of chimpanzees, our nearest wild relatives, and found that they grow big and strong on a diet of leaves and …