Marilyn Peterson's Vegan Bite-by-Bite is reviewed delightfully and in depth by Vegetarians in Paradise at http://www.vegparadise.com/vegreading1304.html

Because I was writing my thesis, I took a year to read Marilyn Peterson's Vegan Bite-by-Bite enjoyably.

During this time, I found it to be a magnificent, enjoyable book with lots of easy-to-read how-to-do-it information along with attractive vegan recipes - lots of them - really easy-to-do vegan recipes, some of these recipes are veganized versions of classically nonvegetarian favorites.

Vegan Bite-by-Bite can be read at several levels: a collection of great vegan recipes with information about how to become a health conscious vegetarian, and (b) an illustration of how to veganize and to work sensitively and lovingly with vegan food in order to please oneself and those who share meals with us - even if they're not vegetarian. Marilyn Peterson has been around the vegetarian movement for a very long time; photos can be found in the book and on the Internet of Marilyn with some of the 20th century leaders of vegetarian health and cuisine. Nonetheless, I was taught by Ron Pickarski, who is credited with coining the term 'flexitarianism' (as a pragmatic operational standard rather than as a normative ethic) that one studies cookbooks the way we would study any other book: Reading one to learn how the author feels and thinks about food, reading two is to methodically study the recipes and to select or tag or mark those recipes to actually prepare; reading three (still cover-to-cover) is to prepare the recipes but in the context of the chapters where they are nestled, and to see how well those proportions and nuances really work. Marilyn's decades of working with leaders like Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Louise Hay and others come through so that three times through this book is very well justified.

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