Food is so much more than fuel, and veganism is so much more than a diet. It's linked to culture, family, memories, and identity. A collection of over 100 plant-based recipes that, together, give readers a bird's eye view of vegan cuisine and its facets, Best of Vegan is a marvelously versatile glimpse into the world of vegan cuisine. As someone who grew up eating (and loving) meat, fish, dairy, and eggs, Kim-Julie Hansen never expected to go vegan or even vegetarian. After years of learning and exploring, Hansen committed to a vegan lifestyle and never looked back. Now the creator of the Best of Vegan Instagram and platform, with a reach of over 2 million people, Hansen has fostered a global community of enthusiastic home cooks, chefs, bloggers, and all things food and veganism. Chef contributions include Gaz Oakley (Avant-Garde Vegan, Samantha Onyemenam and Daniel Haimona. In Best of Vegan, Hansen shows that adopting a vegan lifestyle does not mean giving up on the dishes you grew up eating, and plant-based recipes can be accessible, affordable, familiar, and, of course, delicious. A comprehensive guide to a wide variety of vegan dishes, the cookbook includes the most popular recipes from the Best of Vegan community, as well as basic recipes, meal-prep, veganised comfort food, appetisers, and protein-forward wholesome recipes. Fan-favorites include: Avocado Pesto Pasta with Toasted Pine Nuts Fried Tofu "Chick'n" Sandwich Classic Vegan Mac'n Cheese Vegan Baja Style "Fish" Tacos Inspired by Best of Vegan's global community and the international impact of vegan food, Hansen collaborates with famous vegan chefsfrom all over the world to showcase the incredibly diverse history and newest trends of traditional cultural dishes to include recipes such as: Panamanian Tamal de Olla Chinese Dumplings Sri Lankan Pumpkin Curry Congolese Moambe With simplified yet satisfying vegan recipes, Hansen helps home chefs reconnect with the ingredients and their origins. A result of years of collaboration, trial and error, stories told, and meals shared, Best of Vegan is a creative and comprehensive guide for any level of home chef interested in vegan cuisine and plant-based recipes.

Originally published in the 1930s, this is an exhaustively detailed and practical guide to bottling and preserving every type of meat, veg, fruit and liquid you can think of. Still of great practical use in today's kitchen. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include - Flowers Preserved Process and its Advantages - How to Bottle Fruit. In Water. For Syrup - Flowers Clips and Connectors for Vacuum Bottles - Temperatures - Fruit Rising in the Bottles - How to Bottle Fruit .In Syrup, In Water only - Wartime Suggestions. Shortage of Sugars - How to Bottle Fruit, Without Water or Sugar - The Store Room - How to Prepare Fruit For Bottling, etc . Arranged Alphabetically - Apples - Apricots - Barberries - Blackberries - Blackberries and Apples - Capsicums - Cherries - Cranberries - Dried Fruit - Currants, Black and Red - Damsons - Figs - Gooseberries - Grapes - Greengages - Loganberries - Mangoes - Mincemeat - Mixed Fruit Salad - Mulberries - Nectarines - Oranges - Lemons - Passion Fruit - Peaches - Pears - Plums - Quinces - Raspberries - Rhubarb, Method 1 with Water, Method 2 without Water, Method 3 In Syrup - Strawberries- Strawberries Without Syrup, for Jam - Whortleberries - Fruit Juice - Fruit Acid Syrup - Tomatoes, Without Water, Puree, With Water, To Remove Skins from Tomatoes - How to Bottle Vegetables - Asparagus - Beans French and Scarlet Runner - Beetroot - Broad Beans - Broccoli and Cauliflower - Carrots - Celery - Corn on the Cob -Globe Artichokes - Leeks - Marrow - Vegetable Macedoine - Peas - Potatoes and other Root Vegetables - Seakale - To use Bottled Vegetables - How to Bottle Poultry, Pheasants, Partridges, Rabbits, Brawn, etc - Potted Game and Poultry - Sausages - Brawn - Tongues - Soup How to Bottle - Dripping, Lard, Butter and other Fats - How to Bottle Fish - Sprats or Pilchards - How to Bottle Mushrooms - Bottle Fittings how to Remove them and Store them - Laquered Metal or Aluminium Covers - Glass Covers - Rubber Rings - Bottle Clips - Screw Bands - How to Cook Foods by Steam - Vegetables, Fish, Stock, Soup, Xmas Puddings - Flowers Patent Steam Cooking & Bottling Sterilizing - Invalid Cookery - Mutton Broth - Beef Tea - Beef or Chicken Jelly - To Cook Chicken for an Invalid - How to Sterilize Milk and Cream - Jam Making - Apricot Jam - Dried Apricot Jam - Blackberry Jam - Blackberry and Apple Jam - Black Current Jam - Cherry Jam -Damson Jam - Gooseberry Jam - Greengage Jam - Loganberry Jam - Marrow Jam or Marrow Ginger - Plum Jam - Raspberry Jam - Dry Raspberry Jam - Blackberry and Red Current Jam - Rhubarb Jam - Strawberry Jam - Suggestions for Mixed Fruit Jam - Jelly Making - Apple Blackberry - Blackberry Jelly - Blackberry and Apple Jelly - Black Current Jelly - Damson Jelly - Gooseberry Jelly etc