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Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Treats
Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero have written a new cookie cookbook that is the best addition to my baking cookbook collection this year. It has something for everyone, including cookies that are sweet, decadent, wholesome, fun, and fancy. And, of course, they’re all vegan.
The Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles are chocolaty and chewy with a cinnamon-sugar topping and a hint of heat...
Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
Mention the name Lisa Jervis in certain feminist circles, and you'll be met with the kind of breathlessness and swooning more often lavished on the Jonas Brothers. Jervis is the co-founder and former editor of Bitch magazine, for many the defining publication of a new generation of feminist critique.
Since leaving Bitch in March 2006, Jervis has stayed largely out of the public eye. But now...
Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
In 1996 Lisa Jervis became an It Girl in the publishing world, after she and Andi Zeisler co-founded the hip quarterly magazine Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Jervis, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1994 with degrees in English and creative writing, had a fresh, imaginative style that outstripped her more doctrinaire peers. She and Zeisler were omnivorous consumers of...
BabyCakes: Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-
Even if you’re thousands of miles away from New York City, I’m willing to bet that you’ve at least heard of Babycakes NYC, the 100% vegan bakery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that also caters to celiacs, diabetics, and above all else, people who really just want good cake. Like the answer to a prayer, this hot spot has been thriving since it opened in 2005, and is in fact doing so well that...