December 16, 2010
Cooking By Color with 'Color Me Vegan' Cookbook
Robert Doyle READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Eat color!
That's the cornerstone idea of Color Me Vegan (Fair Winds Press, December 2010, $19.99, paperback w/ color photos), the innovative and spectacular new book by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, best-selling author of The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table and host /creator of the super-popular "Vegetarian Food for Thought" podcast.
A new study confirms that Americans are eating fewer vegetables than ever and as many as 50 percent of all Americans don't eat a piece of fruit all day long.
In Color Me Vegan, author and vegan extraordinaire Colleen Patrick-Goudreau brings an edible rainbow of plant-based cuisine to kitchen tables with 150 flavorful recipes designed to improve health, explaining how their visual vibrancy matches their boost to your body.
With color as the guiding principle behind each section, Colleen shows vegetarians, vegans, and everyone in between exactly how phytonutrients -the most powerful, pigmented antioxidants on earth, found in everything from select fruits and vegetables, to grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds - can be expertly incorporated into meals for the greatest nutritional punch.
Color-inspired recipes include:
Radicchio Fennel Salad with Caper Dressing
Chilled Blueberry Mango Soup
Lavender-Roasted Purple Onions
Eggplant with Dengaku (Sweet Miso) Sauce
Purple Plum Pie with Crumble Topping
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About the Author: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, best-selling author of The Joy of Vegan Baking (Fair Winds, Fall 2007) and The Vegan Table (Fair Winds, Spring 2009), is the founder of Compassionate Cooks, an organization whose mission is to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about veganism. A recognized expert on healthful plant-based cuisine, Colleen has appeared on the Food Network and is a columnist forVegNews magazine.
Long-term New Yorkers, Mark and Robert have also lived in San Francisco, Boston, Provincetown, D.C., Miami Beach and the south of France. The recipient of fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Blue Mountain Center, Mark is a PhD in American history and literature, as well as the author of the novels Wolfchild and My Hawaiian Penthouse. Robert is the producer of the documentary We Are All Children of God. Their work has appeared in numerous publications, as well as at : www.mrny.com.
