Vegan Bite By Bite A Recipe for Transition with A Cookbook as One of the Ingredients. / Marilyn Peterson. Published by 3 Ton Tomato Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2012.
There are lots of reasons why you have not already become vegan. You’ve known that veganism is a lifestyle choice, and that its ultimate goal of radiant health is within reach, but weren’t ready to commit. You don’t want to go it alone. You’ve felt unsure of the quality of vegan products in supermarkets and health food stores. You don’t really understand how it’s possible to be healthy if meat and dairy are excluded from your table. You want to have more energy, better skin, better elimination, a better life attitude, but aren’t sure how to start. Marilyn Peterson wrote Vegan Bite By Bite to alleviate the fears you may have on becoming vegan, and to help you understand all the aspects of this experience that she describes as a life transition.
In Vegan Bite By Bite you’ll find a multi-faceted approach to the new vegan you. She’s presented her knowledge as your creative cooking coach, kitchen goddess, and vegan mentor. She discusses what you need to be aware of in order to understand how mainstream food affects your health. She points to studies and other publications, and provides interviews with doctors and professed long-time vegans who reveal their own journeys. And her personal evolution from junk food eating in her youth validates her later choice to become vegan after a health crisis and other options had been exhausted.
Recipes and menus usually satisfy our expectations of a cookbook, and Marilyn Peterson has developed over 100 recipes that require only basic cooking methods. The range of these recipes for vegan dishes are a full complement at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with sweets, too. Transitioning to vegan is a profound lifestyle choice, but as it turns out, not an uncomfortable one. You can have your vegan cake and comfort food: like mouse, cheesecake, sorbet; macaroni and cheese, stroganoff, and minestrone; there’s even pate, cream frosting and yam pie — and every bite is vegan. And if you’re looking for advice on how to start, see her comparative tables of mainstream and vegan choices that set the standard for your vegan pantry.
Many reasonable objections to the mainstream lifestyle include eating animal meat and milk. Animals are made to suffer because they are the objects of human greed. Dangerous chemical substances are found in many of the food “products” we take for granted as part of our daily diet. Yet the connection between our food choices and our emotions is obviously very deep. And not only is it a personal affair, what we eat is guided by our need to feel part of a group we identify with, especially with meat and dairy. We’ve grown up believing in the value of these foods to build healthy and strong bodies, resistant to disease, etc. when actually just the opposite is true. And it’s not that difficult to re-educate ourselves, however we don’t often welcome change especially where taste is an issue. Marilyn Peterson’s book suggests why it is important to keep up with the nutritional findings and health studies that show how a mainstream diet is bad for us.
Because of the speed of our lives, we just do not examine until forced by disease or discomfort to re-think our choices. However, in Vegan Bite By Bite, we are shown that we can be responsible, just by selecting out from our diets the meat and animal products that are so destructive to the animals and to the humans that eat them. Through acknowledging the welfare of other living beings, a spiritual re-awakening will occur in your life. And the pure joy of being radiantly healthy is possible with these assets of the new vegan you.
See Marilyn Peterson’s website at “Vegan Bite by Bite”
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