Sarah Kramer

Better than its predecessor, this book finds Barnard and Kramer reaching out to their friends and readers for additional recipes. Clearly this book also went through more rigorous testing than the first one, as I ran into far fewer quirks in the recipes. The one oddity I came across was a sudden penchant for using olive oil in almost every recipe calling for oil. Needless to say, I did not follow this trend. Includes Maureen's sacred coffee cake recipe and many, many other winners. Highly show more recommended. show less

I don't use many of the recipes in this book (partly because I have some dietary restrictions that prevent it), the ones I do use, I use regularly and love.

The carrot-ginger soup recipe in here is one I eat almost weekly. Plus, it was such a hit at a dinner party I had one of my friends made it for a dinner party he had.

I regularly make the berry muffin recipe in this book and it's excellent (although I substitute a different berry for the blueberries).

I highly recommend this book to show more anybody interested in vegan/vegetarian cooking. show less

It should probably be mentioned first: the recipes themselves are good. Some of them are great in fact and the book is much easier to use and find things in the Kramer’s earlier offerings which tended to be sprawling and confused.

The travel advice itself isn’t terrible. It’s incredibly basic and lacks any depth. Kramer seems unsure of airline regulations and European travel which is a bit odd coming from a travel guide.

The marriage of the two seems odd to me. A tiny recipe book that show more you can use when travelling places where you have a kitchen? Even the no cook recipes require equipment like a blender. I was expecting that it would be more useful for roughter forms of travel. At the very least I was hoping most of the recipes could withstand travel. Some do. Small blessing.

Still the recipes are good. show less

This book is okay but I'm not sure how useful it will be. I thought it would have a lot more travel tips along the lines of what to do when you're really hungry and you're traveling in a place that doesn't have any chow you can eat, but the intro is a lot of common sense travel tips and then the rest is recipes. I don't know how useful recipes will be if I'm staying in a hotel without a kitchen in an area that doesn't have grocery stores, but I can see how it would be nice for times that show more you'll have those modern conveniences. The book itself is really small so it would be quite easy to pack without having to lug around a big cookbook. show less