Vegan cookbooks are more abundant than they ever have been, but the amounts pale in comparison to the more popular western diet cookbooks that still exist and are produced. The beauty in The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet is that it doesn't really push an agenda upon the reader while providing even the newest vegan with a plethora of easy to use, easy to love vegan recipes to experiment with. The book takes into consideration those considering going vegetarian for the first time, those who want to implement a vegan meal plan into their diets consistently, and those who are ready to become 'Superheros' (as she calls them) and make vegetables and grains the centerpieces of that diet.
The book is a quick read as half of it consists of Alicia's vegan recipes, and the content before that is soft, simple to understand but important enough to make an impact. For those who are thinking about eliminating meat and dairy from their diets, there is plenty of powerful reference material explaining how meat and dairy negatively impact our diets and the environment. It isn't done on a soapbox, and I commend Alicia Silverstone for using a very conversational approach to the material. For the power vegan, she provides some excellent recipes that are very hearty, healthy, and delicious all at once. Mind you, there are ingredients in some of these recipes that a neophyte may have never heard of before--but the nice thing about this cookbook is that is the exception and not the rule. If you feel like being creative and doing some foodie research though, you will have some good material to study.
Some vegan cookbooks fall short on pictures; this vegan cookbook provides plenty of meal photos. Visual learners and eaters rejoice!
The meat and dairy industry information is well researched and factual in The Kind Diet Vegan Cookbook
If you were to remove the celebrity author status from this book I would still own it. I didn't learn a bunch of new information as I am not in the 'flirting' stages of Veganism, but the recipes were fantastic. Of all of the vegan cookbooks out this vegan cookbook does have some unique but very hearty recipes that I will continue to use and tweak. I am glad they dedicated much of the second portion of the book to the recipes they chose...I got some new fresh ideas and that alone made it valuable.
Brendon Zahrndt and his wife write for Vegan Cookbooks Today. More in-depth information from Vegan Cookbooks & Reviews can be found there as well.
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