Right Next to The Other One -
Mar. 24th, 2008 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburg6. Cozy Inside - Joni Marie Newman.
Billed as "delicious & comforting cruelty-free recipes" - it looks like someone published their blog. Seriously. HUGE type, one recipe with magazine-style photography per page...and only 98 pages WITH indexes...you get the drift.
And one major turn-off for me, most of the recipes are re-works that "taste LIKE THE REAL THING!!11"
Uh. I eat vegetarian chow because I like the taste. The nutrition. The economics. The taste. This is my taste and opinion, but being chuffed because you're suffering to feed your ego instead of your tastebuds just turns me off. Part and parcel of a religious faith? Sure - because it's only part of a whole picture (which in most cases is just plain neat and makes people you like to be around) - instead of simple ego-inflated tweaks. You've met one. So have I.
I might slim down some recipes, and even not make some of them often (what, no fettuccine alfredo every night?) - but I don't take pride in making mock anything. I mention this because in this case, it's almost the entire book's stock in trade.
If that floats your boat, I got a good resource for you. And I may just rename a bunch of stuff if I make it anyway...they're good recipes.
But - up on the shelf with you. Onward!
Billed as "delicious & comforting cruelty-free recipes" - it looks like someone published their blog. Seriously. HUGE type, one recipe with magazine-style photography per page...and only 98 pages WITH indexes...you get the drift.
And one major turn-off for me, most of the recipes are re-works that "taste LIKE THE REAL THING!!11"
Uh. I eat vegetarian chow because I like the taste. The nutrition. The economics. The taste. This is my taste and opinion, but being chuffed because you're suffering to feed your ego instead of your tastebuds just turns me off. Part and parcel of a religious faith? Sure - because it's only part of a whole picture (which in most cases is just plain neat and makes people you like to be around) - instead of simple ego-inflated tweaks. You've met one. So have I.
I might slim down some recipes, and even not make some of them often (what, no fettuccine alfredo every night?) - but I don't take pride in making mock anything. I mention this because in this case, it's almost the entire book's stock in trade.
If that floats your boat, I got a good resource for you. And I may just rename a bunch of stuff if I make it anyway...they're good recipes.
But - up on the shelf with you. Onward!
