Please Don't Feed the Bears: A Vegan Cookbook

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-10-17 rating:
Not impressed so far
I just bought this book and I must say,I don't really see the point of it. First of all,if you own any vegan cookbooks at all,you probably have all of the recipes already. Second,its set up is very messy and difficult to read because of the sloppy zine style,which isn't good when trying to cook or even decide on a recipe. Third,the names of some the recipes make it rather difficult to figure out what you're looking at and the rest of the names just seem unnecessary(i.e. Leeks with a drinking problem;Ellie the Judas Priestess' Drunken Beans.I just like titles that tell me what I'm looking at so I can quickly decide on a meal).I'm not a prude or easily offended,but some of the drawings of guns being fired,a bear eating what appears to be a human and the page about him seeing a dead woman floating in the water one day really seem unnecessary in a cookbook.Also,the book isn't set up clearly for the types of meals,so it's hard to see where the entree section begins and the salad section ends(if there even is a salad section).
MAYBE if I were still 15 years old or into death metal,I would like this book( I am an old-school punk rocker)I will give it a chance,though,and if I decide I like it I will give another review. I just want to warn others who might not be interested in a low-fi cookbook with slight violent undertones.(yes I am a pacifist)

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review by: poppy date: 2008-05-14 rating:
a fabaroony find - buy it!
I don't really know where to start - much, much more than your average recipe book... Great to sit down and thumb through, packed full of interesting things to look at and read, and that's before you've started on the recipes! Includes loads of recipes i've not come across before, and i've yet to try one i don't love. A total find - buy it while it's here. And try the hell fire peanuts - addictive.

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review by: date: 2008-03-13 rating:
Super duper. Love it.
I own loads of vegan cookbooks and this is one of my favourites. This isn't a healthfood type book, its full of vegan comfort foods and ways to make faux versions of things from scratch. The aesthetic is a messy zine style and its full of bits and pieces of drawings and random writings. Its not for the minimalist. The tone is friendly and fun.

Highly recommended, there're recipes for lots of things I've never seen in other books, eg. kofta balls (like delicious falafel but with shredded cabbage and cauliflower as well as gram flour). If you're into heat you'll enjoy the chilified hot-sauced focus, but you can always leave some of that out or cut back if you're not so into that.

Drawbacks - only things to say are its very American, so some ingredients will be hard to find in UK..but use your imagination! Also there's no index, but that means you get to trawl through the book all the more. There's also a boozer feel to the whole thing (hangover cures etc), so if you're straight-edge or teetotal this might irritate you.

In conclusion, buy it! It very very good.

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review by: date: 2008-01-24 rating:
AWESOME
Hands down, one of the best cookbooks ever. Excellent food, excellent suggestions for musical accompaniments.


review by: date: 2007-08-20 rating:
wonderful anarchic vegan cookbook
This is an amazing little book full of anecdotes, quotes, some quite macabre illustrations as well as lots of fun ones. The recipes are very, very good too and although American measurements etc.( it's workable ) I now know what 'chipotle' and ' seitan ' is as there's info at the beginning.There's also a recipe for dog biscuits - really - and remedies for coughs and sore throats. As a 50 something i'm passing on the suggested music to go with each recipe :- here's examples,Dehumanization Roast page 50, music- Necro Schizma-Erupted Evil demo ( 1989 ) see what I mean ? the recipe actually is excellent - a vegan meat loaf or roast.
I love this recipe title -Eric the Reds Militant Vegan Tofu Marinade. Tofu Marinade doesn't seem to pair up well with Eric the Red somehow !
Every Vegan should own and love this book. I do. However, if you're easily offended or strait laced, it might not be for you !

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