{"product_id":"veganistan-a-vegan-tour-of-the-middle-east-beyond-9781623717599","title":"Veganistan: A Vegan Tour of the Middle East \u0026 Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sally Butcher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Interlink Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Interlink Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Vegan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe newest release from prolific food writer Sally Butcher, \u003ci\u003eVeganistan\u003c\/i\u003e is full of healthy, accessible, and delicious vegan recipes for everyone, inspired by a Middle Eastern kitchen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Middle East is a region lush in its vegetation, a gift to the non-meat-eater. Much of the cuisine is naturally plant-based, with a lot of the flavor of recipes coming from the herbs, spices, cooking methods, and sheer \u003ci\u003ejoie de cuisine\u003c\/i\u003e traditional to Middle Eastern dining. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVegan diets can often be dismissed as lacking in certain nutrients, but there is no doubt that one thing a Middle Eastern kitchen teaches us is balance: every dish from a traditional kitchen is carefully crafted to offer a balance of \"hot\" and \"cold\" elements to satiate the four humors of medieval yore with legumes, grains, nuts, and vegetables galore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe original mission of \u003ci\u003eThe New Middle Eastern Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e was to celebrate vegetables in all their glory, rather than recreating meat dishes, and in \u003ci\u003eVeganistan\u003c\/i\u003e Sally Butcher starts to play more with seitan, tofu, and tempeh using them as vehicles to showcase the wonderful range of flavor this cuisine offers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a book written from a moral point of view, but primarily from a food angle, a way of bigging up and celebrating the wonders of Central Asian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab, and East African vegetable cooking and creating a volume of accessible dishes.","brand":"Interlink Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45411963043991,"sku":"9781623717599","price":2226.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781623717599.webp?v=1768583582","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/veganistan-a-vegan-tour-of-the-middle-east-beyond-9781623717599","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}