The
Vitalita Culinary Group (VCG) has produced two
free, original, on-line, vegan cookbooks (vegetarian/non-dairy e-cookbooks).
Over 90% of these recipes are
gluten free (no wheat, spelt, kamut, oats, barley, rye, etc.), and therefore suitable
for a person who has celiac disease or a person on a non-gluten diet.
Many of the recipes are low-fat, and all recipes are nutrient dense.
At this point, these two cookbooks contain over
150 original vegan recipes. Both of these
cookbooks include
pictures
of the recipes. (The full
table of contents
from these
two cookbooks can be viewed before downloading the entire cookbooks.)
(A few
sample recipes
can also be viewed before downloading the entire cookbooks.)
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A Taste of Vitality
This cookbook entitled "A Taste of Vitality" contains exclusively vegan-whole food-nutritionally dense recipes. Many of the recipes are low-fat (contain less than 15% of their calories from fat), or are easily integrated into a low-fat diet. Also, almost all of the recipes are gluten-free.
Recipes in this cookbook range from appetizers (Quinoa Croquettes), soups (Black Bean and Vegetable Stew), vegetables (Roasted Mexican-Style Vegetables) to desserts (Mango Cream Pie).
Click here to download the "A Taste of Vitality" cookbook (PDF) (this file is a PDF file that should open in Adobe Acrobat Reader - the total size of the file is approximately 11.4MB)
(if you have trouble downloading the cookbook with the above link, or if you want to get the cookbook in a different format (e.g., text format which would download faster because it is a much smaller file), click here )
Or, if you would prefer, you can order printed copies of this cookbook. Information available near the bottom of this web page .
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Desserts of Vitality
This "Desserts of Vitality" cookbook contains exclusively vegan-whole food-nutritionally dense recipes. Many of the recipes are low-fat (contain less than 15% of their calories from fat), or are easily integrated into a low-fat diet. Also, almost all of the recipes are gluten-free.
Recipes range from cakes ( Lemon-Poppy Seed Pound Cake), pies ( Hazelnut Pie), and cookies ( Coconut Macaroons) to frozen desserts ( Pineapple-Brazil Nut Ice Cream) and custards ( Orange Custard in Filo Cup).
Click here to download the "Desserts of Vitality" cookbook (PDF) (this file is a PDF file that should open in Adobe Acrobat Reader - the total size of the file is approximately 5.3MB)
(if you have trouble downloading the cookbook with the above link, or if you want to get the cookbook in a different format (e.g., text format which would download faster because it is a much smaller file), click here )
Or, if you would prefer, you can order printed copies of this cookbook. Information available near the bottom of this web page .
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These are "shareware" cookbooks. Therefore, similar to shareware software, if you enjoy any of these cookbooks, you are asked to send a $10 contribution (for each cookbook) to show your appreciation. As all proceeds from these cookbooks are donated to Vegan Outreach (a non-profit vegan advocacy/education group), please send all contributions directly to Vegan Outreach at:
Vegan Outreach
P.O. Box 30865
Tucson, AZ 85751-0865 USA
One way to use the above
cookbooks is to download them and simply use them from your computer.
Another is to download them and print them out using your own printer.
Another would be to ask a company to print the cookbooks for you (see
below for more information).
NEW - It is now possible to purchase printed copies of this cookbook
from the author.
PURCHASE DETAILS:
+ Only able to ship to US addresses.
+ Hard copies are printed in black and white - lay flat spiral binding.
+ Printed copies are shipped via USPS Media Mail (book rate)
(a low fee added to price shown below);
+ Please allow up to 3 weeks for delivery.
+ Sales tax will be charged on shipments to California addresses.
- Use this PayPal Buy Now button to purchase a printed copy of the cookbook "A Taste of Vitality" for US$16 :
- Use this PayPal Buy Now button to purchase a printed copy of the cookbook "Desserts of Vitality" for US$16 :
- Use this PayPal Buy Now button to purchase a printed copy of both cookbooks "A Taste of Vitality" and "Desserts of Vitality" for US$32 :
Obtaining
Printed Copies from Commercial Printing Services - If you
want to use a printing/copying service to have these cookbooks
printed, you might try one of the following:
There may also be other websites that will print files you send to them for a fee. The electronic version does have color pictures - if you print them to a printer that does color, they do come out in color, but I have printed them to laser printers (non-color) and they look fine as well. (printing services charge much more to print in color than just in black and white, so in this case most people just print in black and white, and the pictures do look OK).
- 1) use the Kinko printing service (the printed document can be sent to your home, or you can pick it up at a local printing shop):
http://www.kinkos.com/
(with all the cheapest options, you can print about 200 pages for about $20)- 2) use other online printing services - these places may or may not have services to print just one document:
http://www.sirspeedy.com/
http://www.printingforless.com/- 3) you can go to a copy place (such as Kinkos), and have it printed - most copy shops have computers connected to the internet so you can download the cookbook(s) while at the copy store, and then you can print from the computer - or you take a zip disk or other disk to the copy shop with the cookbooks on it, and then you will not need to download the cookbooks while at the copy shop.
[Side Note: A few of the recipes from these cookbook were prepared at a cooking demonstration in 1999, and this demonstration is available on video. This video is offered by the organization that ran the conference where this cooking demonstration was presented. To order a video cassette of the "Decadent Gluten-Free Desserts" cooking demonstration by Mark Foy, send $12 to: American Vegan Society; P.O. Box 369; Malaga, NJ 08328; (856) 694-2887. ( http://www.americanvegan.org/ ) Specify that you want the video #B-10 from the 1999 AVS Convention in Boulder, Colorado which contains the cooking demonstration "Decadent Gluten-Free Desserts" by Mark Foy. Specify if you want the US format (regular VHS) or the PAL format (oversees format).]
These cookbooks were produced with MasterCook , a cookbook management program.
You can also take a look at a list of some recommended commercial cookbooks .
If you would like to read this web page in another language, go to one of these language translation web sites: http://www.systransoft.com OR http://www.freetranslation.com . On either of these sites, you can enter this URL ( http://www.vitalita.com/cookbooks.html ) and have this web page displayed in another language.
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