Veg Books Top the Amazon.com Best Seller List
There are three notable veg books that are creeping up the Amazon.com 100 best sellers list. Each of them look like pretty kick-ass books, especially Jonathan Safran Foer’s. At a time when the United States is abusing and killing over 10 billion animals every year for food, it’s good news that vegetarianism is getting so much play.В Here are the three books.
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals, has been creeping up the Amazon.com bestseller list for the past 10 days. It’s now at number twenty, which is pretty amazing. You may recognize his name because Foer is also the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He’s really been making the round, promoting the new book. He recently appeared on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The next incarnation of the Worcester’s Animal Liberation Theory & Action discussion group should definitely include Eating Animals.
The Conscious Cook
Also in the top 100 is The Conscious Cook: Delicious Meatless Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat by Tal Ronnen. It is currently at #60 and has been on the top 100 for the for the past 15 days. I have not seen this book yet, it’s got to be amazing. I have eaten food that Tal prepared at animal rights conferences. The veg chicken salad sandwiches at Taking Action for Animals a few years are still the best sandwiches I’ve ever eaten. If my testimonial doesn’t convince you, Oprah also loves him. Ronnen worked as a personal chef for Oprah during her 21 day vegan challenge. He’s just downright awesome. Will the Conscious Cook challenge the Veganonicon for best vegan cookbook in America?
The Kind Diet
She may be a washed-up actress, but Alicia Silverstone is using every bit of fame she has left to help animals and advocate veganism. That’s cool, right? In that vein, she just published a new vegan cookbook: The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet. It’s in the top 100 list, so apparently people like it. The Kind Diet is now at #87, which is impressive for a cookbook. I’m pysched to see what she’s got in it.
What do you think? Have you read any of these books yet?
November 5, 2009
Tags: books, cooking Posted in: Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Misc
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Seeing Dr. Will Tuttle last year at the Peace Abbey changed my life from vegetarian to vegan. He is once again touring Massachusetts this coming weekend and will be in Lexington on Thurs. evening, and at the Peace Abbey in Sherbourne on Saturday. If you haven’t heard him or heard of him, he is the author of The World Peace Diet, and he has travelled all over the world with a mission of changing minds, and hearts with is compassionate living. His website is http://www.worldpeacediet.org for more info
I’m hoping Santa will bring me a couple of these books … I’ve heard wonderful things about Tal Ronnen’s cookbook in particular.
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