This is #TheYearOfVegan and the proof is in the vegan pudding. Vegan food blogs are everything, new restaurants are opening left and right, and chain restaurants are offering more vegan options. Equally important is the fact that more and more people are enthusiastically partaking of this vegan explosion.
Recently, we've seen the release of many vegan cookbooks. This is super-exciting, because sometimes it's nice to peruse an actual book (not the Internet) while looking for a recipe and be untethered from the computer while preparing a scrumptious meal.
Here are our favorite cookbooks from this year so far:
1. Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking
This book by the Minimalist Baker blog stands out from the crowd by offering simple and mostly gluten-free vegan recipes. You're in for a real treat.
2. PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook
This book is chock-full of simple vegan recipes for the student on a budget (or anyone else interested in affordable vegan meals!)
3. Oh She Glows Every Day
This collection of quick and easy plant-based recipes is a follow-up to The Oh She Glows Cookbook, which was a New York Times bestseller.
4. Vegan Bowl Attack!
Vegan Yack Attack has unleashed a vegan bowl cookbook on us, featuring more than 100 recipes and we couldn't be happier.
5. Aquafaba
We just love the subtitle of this recipe book, Sweet and Savory Vegan Recipes Made Egg-Free With the Magic of Bean Water. You have to try aquafaba to know how magical it is!
6. Thug Kitchen 101
These hilarious masterminds can't stop publishing bestselling cookbooks and they're back with this guide to quick, vegan meals.
7. The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur
The blogger behind Seitan Beats Your Meat presents a fabulous collection of 120 vegan cookie recipes, now available in paperback.
9. The Friendly Vegan Cookbook
Vegan photographer extraordinaire Michelle Cehn teamed up with Plant Based on a Budget's Toni Okamoto to bring us their favorite vegan recipes. When you buy the cookbook through this link, 40 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
10. Forks Over Knives Family
This follow-up to the bestselling Forks Over Knives Plan features 100 quick and easy kid-friendly recipes to keep the whole family healthy and excited about plant-based eating.
11. Vegan Mexico
Vegan chef Jason Wyrick, author of 2014's Vegan Tacos, offers up a more comprehensive collection of Mexican recipes in his new book.
12. The Little Vegan Cookbook
Don't be fooled by the name—this pocket-sized cookbook is a compilation of more than 500 recipes from multiple vegan cookbooks and authors and covers everything from appetizers to desserts.
13. The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids
This irresistible cookbook presents 60 appealing recipes kids will beg to make themselves, in fun and charming illustrations they will love.
14. Eaternity
Vegan chef Jason Wrobel explains the health and longevity benefits of the 150 recipes that he presents here.
15. The Make Ahead Vegan Cookbook
Ginny Kay McMeans, the woman behind the Vegan in the Freezer blog, offers recipes that can be enjoyed on the spot or frozen for later. It's the perfect book to help you meal-prep a busy week.
16. Baconish
With Leinana's basic plant-based bacon recipes, you can whip up Bacon Apple Fritters, Bacon-Stuffed French Toast, Risotto with Peas and Mushroom Bacon, and so much more.
17. Easy Vegan Breakfasts & Lunches
So many delicious vegan recipes, so little time. This book, courtesy of Maya Sozer of Dreamy Leaf, offers energizing, easily prepared meals to power you through your day.
18. N’ice Cream
Vanelja gives us 80 homemade vegan ice-cream recipes and we all scream with delight.
19. The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook
Isa Chandra Moskowitz of the Post Punk Kitchen does it again with this festive follow-up to Isa Does It, offering everything from appetizers and casseroles to cakes and pies.
20. The Love & Lemons Cookbook
Turn your farmer's market finds into lovely meals with this collection of simple and healthy recipes from Jeanine Donofrio.
21. Dining at The Ravens
You can't go wrong with a cookbook by The Ravens Restaurant at The Stanford Inn by the Sea—one of the most delicious vegan restaurants in California.
