The VB6 Cookbook: More than 350 Recipes for Healthy Vegan Meals All Day and Delicious Flexitarian Dinners at Night

Author: Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything

Brand: CROWN

Color: White

Features:

• Clarkson Potter Publishers

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 06-05-2014

Part Number: 9780385344821

Details: Product Description
Following up on his bestselling diet plan, VB6, the incomparable Mark Bittman delivers a full cookbook of recipes designed to help you eat vegan every day before 6:00 p.m.--and deliciously all of the time. Whether you call it flexitarian, part-time veganism, or vegetable-centric, the plant-based, real-food approach to eating introduced in Bittman's New York Times bestselling book VB6 has helped countless people regain their good health, control their weight, and forge a smarter, more ethical relationship with food. VB6 does away with the hard and fast rules, the calorie-counting, and the portion control of conventional diets; it's a regimen that is designed to be easy toa dopt and stick to for a lifetime.  When Bittman committed to a vegan before 6:00 pm diet, he quickly realized that everything about it became easier if he cooked his own meals at home. In The VB6 Cookbook he makes this proposition more convenient than you could imagine. Drawing on a varied and enticing pantry of vegan staples strategically punctuated with "treat" foods (including meat and other animal products), he has created a versatile repertoire of recipes that makes following his plan simple, satisfying, and sustainable.  Breakfasts, the most challenging meal of the day for some vegans, are well represented here, with a full range of hot cereals, whirl-and-go-dairy free smoothies, toast toppers, and brunch-worthy entrees. Lunches include hearty soupls, sandwiches, beans, grains, and pastas to pack along wherever the day takes you, and more than a dozen snack recipes provide the perfect afternoon pick-me-up to banish the vending-machine cravings that can undo a day of eating well. Dinners are flexitarian, focusing on vegetable-forward meals that are augmented by a range of animal products for fullest flavor, satisfaction, and nutrient density. A chapter devoted entirely to "building blocks"--make-ahead components you mix and match--ensures that a flavorful and healthy meal is never more than a few minutes away. If you've thought of trying a vegan diet but worry it's too monotonous or unfamiliar, or simply don't want to give up foods you love to eat, Bittman's vegan and flexitarian recipes will help you cook your way to a new, varied and quite simply better way of eating you can really commit to...for life.  
About the Author
MARK BITTMAN is one of the country's best-known and most widely respected food writers. His
How to Cook Everything books, with one million copies in print, are a mainstay of the modern kitchen. Bittman writes for the Opinion section of
New York Times on food policy and cooking, and is a columnist for the
New York Times Magazine. His "The Minimalist" cooking show, based on his popular NYT column, can be seen on the Cooking Channel. His most recent book,
VB6, debuted at #1 on the
New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale.
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Introduction



I’ve been telling the VB6 story for seven years now, sometimes ten times in a day. I never tire of it. If anything, the passage of time makes the punch line even more powerful: Eating Vegan Before Six has turned my life around. For good.

I seem to have created a way of eating that has allowed me—a person who makes his living writing about eating and cooking—to lose weight quickly and easily, and it has now allowed me to keep it off for the better part of a decade. Over the years I’ve heard from many, many others that they’ve made similar transformations.

That’s not how fad diets work.

I started VB6 on my own and on a hunch. There I was, middle aged, over- weight but physically active, and sitting in my doctor’s office going over the numbers. High cholesterol, check. Pre-diabetes, check. Overweight, check. Perhaps some of this will sound familiar to you too. My doctor—a man I’ve known and trusted for 30 years—gave me two choices: Either start taking what amounts to a lifetime of

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