Brave New Meal: Fresh as F*ck Food for Every Table: A Vegan Cookbook (Bad Manners)

Product Description
The New York Times bestselling authors of the Bad Manners cookbook series are back with a message for you (yeah, you): Eating less meat, saving the planet, and cooking at home don’t have to be so f*cking boring—or expensive. \nIf it feels like everything’s so f*cked that you just wanna lay down and let the earth reclaim your body, we understand. A global pandemic forced all of us back into the kitchen but our fridges were full of by-products and fake flavors. It seems like half the ingredients and produce we buy goes in the trash while people starve, the planet burns and also somehow floods. And our culinary chaos is partly to blame. This sh*t isn't sustainable. \nEnter
Brave New Meal: a chance for food to be not just different but better. Because here’s the dirty little secret about eating vegan (or plant-based, meatless, flexitarian, whatever the hell they’re calling it this week): done right, it’s the cheapest, healthiest, most environmentally friendly, and tastiest (did we stutter?) food you could possibly put into that temple you call a body.
Brave New Meal shows you the way: \n•
100+ life-changing vegan recipes including Orange Peel Cauliflower, Beeteroni Pizza, Nashville Hot Shroom Sammie, Jackfruit Pupusas, and Plum-Side-Down Cake
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Killer photos so you’ll know for sure you didn’t f*ck it up
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Tips on how to stretch your budget, limit food waste, and incorporate every edible piece of the plant into your meals (or finally find a use for that wilted kale in your fridge)
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Shortcuts and substitutions for when the grocery store is sold out or you need help getting dinner on the goddamn table already
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A produce glossary that breaks down everything you probably never knew (but most def should) about all the fresh stuff in your market\nLook, we’re not asking you to go vegan. We’re not even asking you to give up bacon (do whatever you gotta do). But just be real honest when you answer this question: What do you have to lose?
Review
“The folks at Bad Manners (
Thug Kitchen) give all the f*cks as they ardently advocate for a plant-based diet in this irreverent and enticing guide . . . Recipes range from breakfast to dinner and sweets, scouring the world for inspiration and subverting “constructs” along the way. Spaghetti’s served for breakfast, while a smashed cucumber salad cools things down when it’s ‘hotter than hell outside.’ Sticky tofu with sweet sesame sauce (essentially a ‘cake made of beans’) puts a healthy spin on takeout, and strawberry rosewater cheesecake takes the sting out of the idea of being gluten-intolerant.”
—Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Bad Manners blew up the Internet back in 2012, when they first began blogging. Their first cookbook was a #1
New York Times bestseller. They are based in Los Angeles, California.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Y'all. \nWhat in the f*ck happened?\nSeriously.\nNot that long ago every social media platform was littered with poorly lit food photos captioned with enough hashtags to induce a headache. There was always another video with some rainbow-colored dish that nobody would ever eat. Delivery apps and takeout had reached a fever pitch, bringing the drive-thru into our driveways, all while exploiting restaurants and delivery workers. We decided it was somehow faster to wait an hour for food to get delivered by underpaid, overworked drivers than to make it ourselves in the same amount of time. We mindlessly threw away our money and health with all those takeout bags and plastic forks we got by the fistful. We worked 60-to-80-hour weeks just scraping by, while reassuring ourselves that we loved the hustle.\nThe f*ck?\nYa know, the “rise and grind” bullshit. We ate what we could get, when we could get it, only looking to be full not fed. We were redlining our diet as much as our lives to reach a goal that none of us were totally clear on. We thought the rise of self-care meant tha