For close to 40 years now, Louise has enjoyed creating vegan cuisine to satisfy the western palate and is one of the pioneers for introducing vegan cuisine to the U.S.

After moving to The Farm Community in Tennessee in 1971, Louise learned and experimented along with other community members to develop a tasty, economically friendly, healthful soy-based vegetarian diet for anyone, anywhere. Louise was the editor on the first two community cookbooks, The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook and Tofu Cookery and the main contributor on the revised editions. She has also written five cookbooks.

Her focus has been to present a wide variety of tasty, easy-to-prepare, familiar dishes, incorporating soy foods of all kinds and vegan ingredients from cuisines around the globe.

In the past few years, Louise has been teaching nutrition and cooking classes in undernourished communities in Mexico and Guatemala for Plenty International, introducing soy foods as an alternative protein. She has also provided technical support for soy dairies in those countries, some of them started by Plenty over the last 25 years.

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NEW FARM VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK

$14.95

When it premiered in 1975, The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook was the first meat-, dairy-, and egg-free cookbook published in the United States. The original Farm Vegetarian Cookbook was a primer on how to make vegetarian basics, such as homemade soymilk, tofu, seitan, and tempeh. It also featured good tasting nutritional yeast as a source of the essential vitamin B12. According to Bill Shurtleff, author of The Book of Tempeh, it also was the first cookbook to introduce tempeh to North America.

The revised edition in 1989 provided more in-depth nutrition information, and the recipes were adjusted to contain less fat and sugar, which reflected the emerging health insights about these ingredients. Many recipes showcased the versatility of soybeans which could be made into soymilk, tofu, tempeh, yogurt and of course, cheesecake. Even today, with plant-based alternatives mainstream and Google at our fingertips, this cookbook is a beloved part of vegan culinary history that gets passed down from generation to generation.

A few recipes do contain honey.

ISBN: 9780913990605
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Book Publishing Company
Height: 9.00
Width: 6.00

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TOFU COOKERY - 25th Anniversary Edition

$21.95

Louise Hagler

TOFU COOKERY 25th Anniversary Edition celebrates a quarter of a century of helping people prepare delicious dishes featuring tofu. Soyfoods pioneer Louise Hagler expertly shows how easy it is to add a little tofu to both your favorite comfort foods and gourmet fare. This edition includes new recipes and the original recipes revised to use less salt and smaller amounts of more healthful fats.

Thai Tofu Peanut Sauce with Veggies, Tofu Ganache, Cucumber Gazpacho, Veggie Sushi, Falafels, Tofu Fu Yung, and Quiche are a few of the dishes you can enjoy, along with Chocolate Cheesecake! Color photographs illustrate how sumptuous and inviting the food will look. Environmentally friendly, economical to buy, and easy to digest, tofu remains one of the few low-fat, no-cholesterol proteins available. TOFU COOKERY: 25th Anniversary Edition will introduce a new generation of cooks to the wonders of tofu.

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ISBN: 9781570672200
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Book Publishing Company
Height: 9.00
Width: 8.00