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02129aam a2200241 i 4500 001 B0C4474EE8AE11ED9CDDC11555ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230502010046 008 230201s2023 maua e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1623717590 020 $a 9781623717599 035 $a (OCoLC)1369581584 040 $a IMD $b eng $e rda $c IMD $d WC4 $d BDX $d YDX $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a aw----- 100 1 $a Butcher, Sally, $e author. 245 10 $a Veganistan : $b a vegan tour of the Middle East and beyond / $c Sally Butcher. 264 1 $a Northampton, Massachusetts : $b Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, $c 2023. 300 $a 192 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index. 520 $a "The Middle East is a region lush in its vegetation, a gift to the non-meat-eater. Much of the cuisine is naturally plant-based, with a lot of the flavor of recipes coming from the herbs, spices, cooking methods, and sheer joie de cuisine traditional to Middle Eastern dining. Vegan diets can often be dismissed as lacking in certain nutrients, but there is no doubt that one thing a Middle Eastern kitchen teaches us is balance: every dish from a traditional kitchen is carefully crafted to offer a balance of "hot" and "cold" elements to satiate the four humors of medieval yore with legumes, grains, nuts, and vegetables galore. The original mission of The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian was to celebrate vegetables in all their glory, rather than recreating meat dishes, and in Veganistan Sally Butcher starts to play more with seitan, tofu, and tempeh using them as vehicles to showcase the wonderful range of flavor this cuisine offers. This is not a book written from a moral point of view, but primarily from a food angle, a way of bigging up and celebrating the wonders of Central Asian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab, and East African vegetable cooking and creating a volume of accessible dishes"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010521.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B0C4474EE8AE11ED9CDDC11555ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search