Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul

By Jenne-Claiborne

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Harmony (February 6, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0451498895

ISBN-13: 978-0451498892

In an Introduction which details the author's background, and a description of Southern food, we are given short but informative subsections such as

Five Healthy Food Rules I Live By

What To Expect From This Book

Tools to Stock Your Soul Kitchen

Southern Pantry Staples

Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

How to Slice Sweet Potatoes

Greens

Creole Seasoning

Flours Sweeteners

After that, we have the recipes which are listed in the following categories:

Breakfast

Salads and Soups

Greens and Sides

Mains

Sweets and Drinks

Pantry staples & Sauces

Then Acknowledgments

and

Index

Each recipe section takes one page and lists ingredients, cooking directions, and a homey or helpful blurb

Okay, i loved this book! I'm not even from the south. With only a few exceptions (purple sweet potatoes, coconut sugar, miso, tamari, dulse, nori, flaxseed meal, etc), the ingredients are easily-found especially if you live in or near a large city. Happily most of the recipes use regular items.

The dishes are sometimes veganized versions of old favorites such as sweet potato hummus, stalwarts such as pecan pie, and fusions such as Cajun Blackened Tofu Sandwich, cream cheese pound cake (made with soy milk) or Spicy fried cauliflower "chicken.".

This is a book for folks who want that down home cooking while eating vegan. You shouldn't have to give up on your culture to eat vegan. The book is vegan. It is not gluten-free cooking or even healthy non-sugar cooking.

Highly Recommended. I got this book free in exchange for a fair and honest review.